TradingMarkets’ 7 Stocks You Need To Know About Thursday

Stocks rose as crude made another three-week low.
Several Dow stocks received upgrades, including:
Hewlett Packard
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which was upgraded to Buy at UBS. JP Morgan
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outperform at Piper Jaffray and McDonald’s
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outperform at Bear Stearns.

After the close, Comverse Technology
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also beat on revenues. (full
story) Solectron’s CFO
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at Intuit
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story)  Cooper Companies
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upside guidance. (full
story) Take Two Interactive
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Now, here are a few stocks to watch for Thursday:

This week, Beijing is hosting the Chinese Business Summit, and Chinese stocks
are in focus. Netease
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Our old friend Baidu.com
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So did Sohu
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Sina
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Cooper Companies
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Deutsche Bank started coverage on Tyco
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Hovnanian
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