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Financials Send Stocks Soaring To Begin Week … Nasdaq, S&P Gain 3% … Home builder Sentiment At 8-Month High … Consumer Cyclicals LOW, HD Advance on Housing Optimism … Precious Metals ETFs Among Most Oversold: GLD, SLV, IAU ….

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • The biggest earnings announcement on Tuesday may be the one from Hewlett-Packard
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    , which is expected to report EPS of 86 cents after the close. HPQ closed up more than 2% and is increasingly overbought below its 200-day moving average.

  • Among the companies reporting quarterly earnings before the bell Tuesday morning, Home Depot
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    is expected to announce EPS of 29 cents, while analysts are expecting per share earnings loss of 0.24 from upscale clothing retailer Saks
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    . Home Depot rallied by more than 6% while Saks, which trades below its 200-day moving average, soared by a whopping 22%.

  • Goldman Sachs
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    moved Northrop Grumman
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    to its “conviction sell” list as part of an overall downgrade of the defense sector. Trading below its 200-day moving average, NOC opened at its lows and rallied by more than 3% on the day.

  • Along with Goldman Sachs, both Morgan Stanley
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    and JP Morgan Chase
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    have applied for permission to repay a combined total of $45 billion in TARP capital borrowed. MS and JPM both trade above their 200-day moving averages and were up more than 8% and 6%, respectively.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
The Pantry PTRY 9
Optimer Pharmaceuticals OPTR 9
Hot Topic Inc. 9
Ralcorp Holdings Inc. RAH 8
Family Dollar Stores FDO 8

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