The Market Next Week

The
following is TradingMarkets.com’s synopsis

for the market next week. Included are our Stock Scanner standouts, upcoming
IPOs, stock splits and upcoming economic events — all of which may impact
traders in the coming week.

Stocks Scanner Standouts:

The following stocks are the highest-rated combinations of relative strength
and earnings over three different time periods as found in the TradingMarkets.com
Stock Scanner
.

These are not recommendations to
buy or sell. Also, please remember to use protective stops on any positions.

12 mo RS of 96 and higher and EPR 96 and higher


Stock

Symbol

Industry
Group

1-Yr-High

Open

High

Low

Close

A.C.
Moore

(
ACMR |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Specialty
Retail
34 32.30 33.00 30.81 31.90
Immucor (BLUD) Diagnostic
Substances
12.41 11.46 11.79 11.38 11.77
ELITE
Info. Group
(ELTE) Info
Tech Services
13.50 11.86 12.30 11.85 12.23

Hollywood Ent.
(HLYW) Music
& Video Stores
16.91 13.66 13.85 13.02 13.06
MIM
Corp.
(MIMS) Specialized
Hlth. Svc.
21.40 19.40 21.40 19.40 20.62
Merit
Medical
(MMSI) Med.
Inst & Supplies
21.95 20.42 20.42 17.55 18.02
Nat’l
Med Health
(NMHC) Specialized
Hlth. Svc.
12.96 11.60 12.10 11.44 11.90
Precis (PCIS) Application
Software
14.99 12.17 12.35 12.08 12.20
Websense (WBSN) Internet
Software & Svcs.
35 32.72 33.63 32.55 32.80

6 mo RS of 96 and
higher and EPR 96 and higher

Company
Name

Symbol

Industry
Group

1-Yr-High

Open

High

Low

Close

A.C.
Moore

(
ACMR |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Specialty
Retail
34 32.30 33.00 30.81 31.90
Immucor (BLUD) Diagnostic
Substances
12.41 11.46 11.79 11.38 11.77
ELITE
Info. Group
(ELTE) Info
Tech Services
13.50 11.86 12.30 11.85 12.23
MIM
Corp.
(MIMS) Specialized
Hlth. Svc.
21.40 19.40 21.40 19.40 20.62
Merit
Medical
(MMSI) Med.
Inst & Supplies
21.95 20.42 20.42 17.55 18.02
Nat’l
Med Health
(NMHC) Specialized
Hlth. Svc.
12.96 11.60 12.10 11.44 11.90
Precis (PCIS) Application
Software
14.99 12.17 12.35 12.08 12.20
Websense (WBSN) Internet
Software & Svcs.
35 32.72 33.63 32.55 32.80

3 mo RS of 96 and
higher and EPR 96 and higher

Stock

Symbol

Industry
Group

1-Yr-High

Open

High

Low

Close


Immucor, Inc.
(BLUD) Diagnostic
Substances
12.41 11.46 11.79 11.38 11.77
ELITE
Info. Group
(ELTE) Info
Tech Services
13.50 11.86 12.30 11.85 12.23

Nat’l Med
Hlth
(NMHC) Specialized
Hlth. Svc.
12.96 11.60 12.10 11.44 11.90
Precis (PCIS) Application
Software
14.99 12.17 12.35 12.08 12.20
Symyx
(
SMMX |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Research
Services
28.22 23.48 24.21 23.00 23.29
Websense (WBSN) Internet
Software & Svcs.
35 32.72 33.63 32.55 32.80

Upcoming IPOs for Week of January 14

None

For more information, please visit our IPO
Calendar
.

Splits

Stock Symbol Ratio Payable Ex
Date
Varian Medical
(
VAR |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
2:1 Jan 15 Jan 16
FTI
Consulting

(
FCN |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
3:2 Jan
16
Jan
17
Liz Claiborne
(
LIZ |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
2:1 Jan 16 Jan 17
Chico’s
FAS

(
CHS |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
3:2 Jan
18
Jan
22
CVB
Financial

(
CVBF |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
5:4 Jan 18 Jan 22

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information? Click here.

Upcoming Economic Events

Week of January 14
– January 18

Date ET

Release

For Consensus Prior
Jan
15
08:30 Retail
Sales
Dec -1.1% -3.7%
Jan
15
08:30 Retail
Sales ex auto
Dec 0.0% -0.5%
Jan
16
08:30 Business
Inventories
Nov -0.5% -1.6%
Jan
16
08:30 CPI Dec 0.1% 0.0%
Jan
16
08:30 Core
CPI
Dec 0.2% 0.4%
Jan
16
9:15 Capacity
Utilization
Dec 74.6% 74.7%
Jan
16
9:15 Industrial
Production
Dec
0.0%
-0.3%
Jan
16
2:00 Fed
Beige Book
Jan
17
08:30 Building
Permits
Dec 1.570M 1.595M
Jan
17
08:30 Housing
Starts
Dec 1.610 1.645M
Jan
17
08:30 Initial
Claims
1/12 NA 395K
Jan
17
12:00 Philadelphia
Fed
Jan 0.0 -29.4B
Jan
18
08:30 Trade
Balance
Nov 0.0 -12.6
Jan
18
9:45 Michigan
Sentiment-prel.
Jan 89.6 88.8

Have a great weekend,

Brice