TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

Stocks ended the week on a powerful note, with the Nasdaq closing up more than 2% on the day.

The Dow closed up by 165.77. The Nasdaq Composite ended the day 50.15. And the S&P 500 finished up by 20.16.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

Days after rallying on optimism on overseas sales, shares of Coca Cola
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fell on Friday on the news that bottler Coca Cola Hellenic would be cutting sales and profit forecasts for the year due to rising raw materials costs.

Capital-raising and dividend-cutting appear to be in the future for Fifth Third Bancorp
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, according to analysts at BMO Capital Markets. The stock was among Friday’s biggest losers.

In the face of a $46.3 billion dollar bid from Belgian brewer InBev, Anheuser-Busch
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announced that it was in talks about a possible deal with Mexican beer maker, Grupo Modelo instead.

Lehman Brothers Holdings
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was among the day’s biggest gainers as investors bid the stock higher on news that Blackrock had purchased shares of the company during a secondary offering earlier this week.

Yahoo!
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announced that it has ended talks with Microsoft
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and instead completed a search partnership deal with rival Google
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