TradingMarkets’ 7 Stocks You Need To Know About Today

Two key investment bankers–Perella and Meguid–are leaving Morgan Stanley
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. No clues yet as to who else might be leaving with them.

Harley Davidson
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reported earnings that beat expectations but
guided lower; the stock is trading lower pre-open.

McDonalds’s
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raised Q1 guidance and now sees 0.56;  same
store sales rose 6.8%.

The FDA denied Inamed’s
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application to return silicon breast implants to the US market.

Biogen
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a Tysabri trial was successful; the drug is still
off the market.

Imclone
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pushed back its Erbitux approval filing and now
says it will seek approval by the end of the year. Fulcrum, Oppenheimer and CSFB
all downgraded the stock.

Prudential raised Wal-Mart
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to ‘neutral’ from ‘sell.’ The
stock made a multi-year low  yesterday.

Slumberger
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was raised to ‘outperform’ at Wachovia.

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