TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Friday
A mild day in the markets as traders were preoccupied by advancing oil prices and a Goldman Sachs
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The Dow gained 74.96. The Nasdaq Composite added 24.10. And the S&P 500 ended the day up by 10.70.
Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Friday.
Early reviews of the new smartphone, Pre, by Palm Inc.
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Intel
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Looking for its own piece of the smartphone market, Adobe Systems
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A bigger than expected decline in monthly same-stores sales helped keep retail stocks under pressure on Thursday, but traders managed to bid shares of retailers like Wal-Mart
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