TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

Although finishing down by more than 3% in the major market indexes, stocks staged a dramatic intraday reversal averting even steeper losses.

The Dow closed lower by 312.50. The Nasdaq Composite lost 51.88. And the S&P 500 finished off 31.34.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday.

PNC Financial Services Group
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has agreed to buy National City Corporation
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at a discount of 19%. PNC will use funds from the Treasury bank recapitalization program to finance the acquisition.

Reporting earnings Monday after the market closes, Universal Health Services
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is expected to announce EPS of 0.77.

Despite announcement of production cuts by OPEC, oil stocks such as Hess Corporation
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and Chevron
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were on the retreat on Friday.

Anti-trust authorities in Russia have blocked Google‘s
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efforts to acquire the Internet advertising company ZAO Begun.

A profit-warning from Sony
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helped send stocks lower across the board to start trading on the final trading day of the week.

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