TradingMarkets’ 9 Stocks You Need To Know About This Morning

Ford
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raised its Q3 and 2004 estimates, and will cut 1500 jobs at
its Jaguar plant in Britain. The company now sees 1.90 – 2.10.

Texas Instruments
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will buy back $1 billion in stock and
boosted its quarterly dividend to 0.10.

3COM
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had a slightly narrower loss and guided higher for
the current quarter.

Circuit City
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reported 0.06, beating estimates.

Knight Ridder
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guided lower, citing lower ad revenue at the Miami
Herald due to the hurricanes.

Cisco
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was downgraded at Lehman.

Anheuser Busch
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was downgraded to hold at Deutsche Bank.

Qualcomm
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is raising guidance for Q4 and said it may change
the way it accounts for royalties, which may adversely affect revenues.

Carnival
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beat by 0.03.