TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need To Know For Tuesday

Stocks rallied Monday on lower
oil, good earnings and a new Fed chairman.

Merck
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beat by 0.03, ex-items.

President Bush named Ben Bernanke
as successor to Alan Greenspan, who retires in January. Bernanke is chief White
House economist and a former Fed governor.

Cendant
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said it will split the company into four
separate companies by 2006.

Kimberly Clark
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was in-line, and guided Q4 lower.

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

Texas Instruments
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beat by 0.02.

DuPont
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will report before the open; look for 0.29. The stock
just closed above its 50-day MA.

Also before the open, International Paper
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is scheduled to
report 0.24.

The Merc
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is scheduled to report $2.21 before the bell. Will
that trendline stop the advance?

Everest Re
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missed by 0.08. The stock is also hitting
a trendline.

Building Materials
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can be volatile. They are due to report
$2.13 before the bell.

Halliburton
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is expected to announce 0.82 before the open.
After the bell on Monday, Nabors
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–in the same group–beat by
0.14.

Lexmark
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is sitting on the floor. It’s due to report 0.47 in
the morning.

Brice Wightman