TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need To Know For Monday

• November 18, 2005
• Brice Wightman

Stocks rallied on Friday, with both
the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closing at 4 1/2 year highs. The market
liked the fact that oil prices closed at a 5-month low and the Dow was boosted
by gains in recent laggard, General Motors
(
GM |
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PowerRating), up 6% on the day.

Disney
(
DIS |
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PowerRating) beat by 0.02, ex-items. Revenue was
$7.73 billion, slightly less than expected.

Hewlett Packard
(
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PowerRating) reported Q4 of  0.51 GAAP earnings, beating
by 0.04 and beat on revenues at $22.9 billion. Net income fell63% from a year
ago, however. The company also guided higher. (story)
HPQ is the best performing Dow component this year.

Now, here are a few stocks to watch on Monday:

Amazon.com
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AMZN |
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PowerRating) joined the S&P 500.

And UPS
(
UPS |
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PowerRating) joined the S&P 100.

Campbell Soup
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CPB |
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PowerRating) reports on Monday; look for

Watch Intercontinental Exchange
(
ICE |
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PowerRating). It was a
hot IPO and has pulled back for two days.

Mattel
(
MAT |
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PowerRating) increased its dividend and announced
a $250 million stock buyback program.

This is a weekly chart of Google
(
GOOG |
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PowerRating). Note
the trendline.

Forward Industries
(
FORD |
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PowerRating)
may bounce off its 200-day moving average.

Expand your trading education–visit
www.tradingmarkets.com.

Brice Wightman

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