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Oil Slips to Lowest Levels in a Week … Airbus Warns Jet Orders Fewer than Expected … GE Reveals Bidders for Appliance Unit … Durable Goods Data Due Today … Resistance to InBev Takeover of Anheuser Busch Grows … American Eagle Outfitters, Chico FAS Beat Estimates … Microsoft Previews New Touch Screen, Operating System …
Asian stocks up … European stocks up … The dollar is moving higher against the yen … And the futures are trending higher in the hour before the bell.
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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know |
Discounts at Dollar Tree – Barrons
Increasingly cost-conscious consumers are flocking to discount stores, including retailers like Dollar Tree which announces quarterly earnings today before the bell.
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The rising price of jet fuel has forced JetBlue to delay expansion plans, including the delivery of more than 20 Airbus jets.
Further Gains Ahead for the AUD/USD? – Bloomberg
Analysts at the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group anticipate an 8% rise in the value of the Australian dollar between now and year end.
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UPS, DHL in Air-Freight Talks – Wall Street Journal
United Parcel Service is working toward an agreement with DHL’s U.S. Express unit to carry air freight for some DHL units within the U.S.
ADM To Raise Capital – istockanalyst.com
Archer Daniels Midland announces plans to raise $2 billion in capital through the sale of 35 million “equity units” valued at $50 each.
Archer Daniels Midland has a Short Term PowerRating of 7. Is this stock closer to being a stock that traders should consider buying – or a stock that traders should
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For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking News section.
TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today |
Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:
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An upgrade by Credit Suisse Group AG from “neutral” to “outperform” helped make Citizens’ Communications
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PowerRating) – operators of Red Lobster, Olive Garden and Bahama Breeze – found its shares upgraded today by Merrill Lynch, which suggested that the company was better positioned to weather a slowdown in consumer discretionary spending. - A Citigroup downgrade from “buy” to “hold” sent shares of General Motors
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- Reporting earnings before the open on Wednesday, American Eagle Outfitters
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PowerRating) announced earnings of $0.21 per share, beating analyst estimates. - Dollar Tree
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PowerRating) is scheduled to announce earnings on Wednesday before the bell. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.42.
For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today |
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Fluor Corporation | FLR | 10 |
Masey Energy Company | MEE | 9 |
Canadian Superior Energy Company | SNG | 9 |
Genco Shipping and Trading Ltd | GNK | 9 |
Efuture Information Technology Inc. | EFUT | 9 |
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Gary Kaltbaum Live at 1 pm Eastern – TradingMarkets
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Four of a Kind at the Top – TradingMarkets
A four way tie shows that the battle for first place continues to be fiercely contested, as former leaders slip back into the pack.
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