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Dow Industrials Slip Below 7,000 … AIG Admits to Historic Losses … Asian Stocks Up from Lows … Dollar Soars Against Euro, Yen, Canadian Dollar … Earnings on Deck for Today Include: CHS, AZO, TECD …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:

  • 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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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Pegasystems Inc. PEGA 10
Emergent Biosolutions Inc. EBS 9
DRDGold Ltd. DROOY 9
Aqua America Inc. WTR 9
SXC Health Solutions Corporation SXCI 8

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 7,000 on Monday. Correspondingly, the Dow Diamonds ETF slid below 70 en route to a loss of more than 3% late on the first trading day of the week.

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