TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

Stocks ended the week with a big rally after well-received earnings, especially from Google, Citigroup and Caterpillar.

The Dow rose +228.87, the Nasdaq Composite +61.14 and the S&P 500 +24.77.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday:

Shares of Google
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soared 20%, leading a broad-based market rally, after the Internet bellwether beat estimates by $0.32.

Citigroup
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reported a $5.1 billion net loss, missing estimates by $0.07, after the banking giant was forced to write-down a further $13.9 billion.

Caterpillar
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beat estimates by $0.12 and reaffirmed its full year 2008 earnings guidance of 5% to 10% revenue growth.

Before the market open on Monday, pharmaceutical giants Merck and Eli Lilly are scheduled to report earnings…

The consensus estimate for Merck
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is $0.86, and the number for Eli Lilly
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is $0.96 per share.

Haliburton
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is also set to report, look for earnings of $0.64.

And finally, Bank of America
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is expected to report earnings of $0.41 per share.

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