TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Tuesday

Selling and more selling characterized trading on the first trading day of March. Losses were most pronounced in the S&P 500 which closed down well over 4%.

The Dow fell 299.64. The Nasdaq Composite ended lower by 54.99. And the S&P 500 closed down 34.27.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Tuesday.

AutoZone
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reports quarterly earnings Tuesday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting earnings per share of 1.85.

Analysts are expecting an EPS loss of 17 cents when Chico FAS
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reports earnings Tuesday morning.

Also reporting quarterly earnings Tuesday before the bell is Tech Data Corporation
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, which is expected to announce EPS of 73 cents.

Genentech
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revised its earnings outlook lower, while announcing that the company would be releasing 15 new drugs between now and 2010. Genentech continues to resist a hostile bid from Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Roche.

American International Group
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will get an additional $30 billion in public assistance after reporting a record fourth quarter loss of more than $60 billion.

Considered one of the better managed of those institutions still standing on Wall Street, Morgan Stanley
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nonetheless pulled back by more than 8% on Monday.

VeriFone Holdings Inc.
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reports quarterly earnings after the market closes on Tuesday. Analysts are expecting PAY to announce earnings per share of 11 cents.

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