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Note Sale Boosts Freddie’s Short Term Fortunes … BIG, TUES, AEO Report Earnings Before the Bell … JP Morgan May Suffer Fannie. Freddie-Related Writedowns … New Homes Sales Data Due Today … FOMC Releases Minutes of August Meeting

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Increasingly overbought, shares of Advanced Micro Devices
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    gained more than 2% on Monday as traders cheered the company’s decision to sell one of its semiconductor units to Broadcom
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    . Shares of Broadcom were down more than 4%.

  • Analysts are expecting EPS of $-0.04 when Smithfield Foods
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    reports earnings Tuesday morning before the market opens.

  • Credit Suisse Group AG warned on Monday that American International Group
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    was likely to report housing-bust related writedowns costing more than $2.4 billion.

  • Shares of LDK Solar Company
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    were up more than 9% late in trading on Monday as the maker of solar wafers reported that its 2009 deliveries would likely be double previous estimates.

  • Freddie Mac
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    rallied on Monday after a successful weekly auction of more than $2 billion in short term notes. The stock was higher by more than 17%.

  • Big Lots
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    reports earnings Tuesday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.27.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

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Sun Health Care Group target=”_blank”>SUNH 8
Sterling Bancorp target=”_blank”>STL 8
Stec Inc. target=”_blank”>STEC 8
Wesbanco Inc. href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/powerratings?sym=WSBC” target=”_blank”>WSBC color=”#009900″>8
Westlake Chemical Corporation target=”_blank”>WLK 8

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