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Securities Fraud Charges Pending Against Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers ... AIG CEO Sullivan Steps Down ... Sirius, XM Satellite Radio Merger Approved by FCC Staff ... Lehman Brothers Reports $2.8 Billion Q2 Loss as Expected ... Nvidia, AMD Develop Next Generation Graphics Chips ...

Asian stocks up ... European stocks down ... The dollar is moving higher against the Euro ... And the futures are largely flat in the hour before the bell.

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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know

Does Yahoo Deal Make Too Much of Google? - The Independent
Yahoo!'s Microsoft-avoiding deal with Google threatens to give the search engine titan even more control over advertising online - a development that many UK advertisers in particular are not looking forward to with much optimism.

Google is the Featured Stock in our TradingMarkets Up or Down Stock Contest. You have until 4 p.m. today to tell us whether you think Google will be up or down on Tuesday. Click here to register for free for your chance to win $1,000 each month by correctly guessing the direction of a stock!

Bear Stearns Fund Managers Face Criminal Charges - Wall Street Journal
Investigators are prepared to indict a pair of Bear Stearns hedge fund managers whose collapsing funds were among the first casualties of the subprime mortgage lending crisis.

Dollar Bounce or Dollar Rally? - DailyFX
The DailyFX currency analyst team takes a look at the odds that the U.S. Dollar will continue to move higher against rivals such as the Euro.

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AIG Replaces CEO Sullivan - Financial Times
Executive changes at the top of the world's largest financial institutions continue as American International Group announces the end of Martin Sullivan's three-year tenure as CEO.

Microsoft After Yahoo - Washington Post
Its bid to takeover Yahoo having failed, can Microsoft create an niche for itself in the online advertising space on its own?

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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:

  • Days after rallying on optimism on overseas sales, shares of Coca Cola (KO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) fell on Friday on the news that bottler Coca Cola Hellenic would be cutting sales and profit forecasts for the year due to rising raw materials costs.

  • Capital-raising and dividend-cutting appear to be in the future for Fifth Third Bancorp (ITB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), according to analysts at BMO Capital Markets. The stock was among Friday's biggest losers.

  • In the face of a $46.3 billion dollar bid from Belgian brewer InBev, Anheuser-Busch (BUD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced that it was in talks about a possible deal with Mexican beer maker, Grupo Modelo instead.

  • Lehman Brothers Holdings (LEH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was among the day's biggest gainers as investors bid the stock higher on news that Blackrock had purchased shares of the company during a secondary offering earlier this week.

  • Yahoo! (YHOO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced that it has ended talks with Microsoft (MSFT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and instead completed a search partnership deal with rival Google(GOOG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

For a list of today's highest PowerRating stocks, click here.

TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Mexico Energy Corp MXC 9
Abraxas Petroleum Company ABP 9
WSI Industries Inc. WSCI 8
Western Digital Corp WDC 8
Verigy Ltd. VRGY 8
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Making Great Traders - The Best of the Week's Trading Lessons - TradingMarkets
Did you catch TradingMarket's contributor Steven Gabriel''s discussion of how he became "almost" a trader for a living? Eddie Kwong sits down with this physician turned physician/trader to learn how he does it. Last week's lessons also featured a great analytical piece from reigning King of the Candlesticks, Steve Nison, discussing ways that traders can use Japanese candlesticks techniques to anticipate - rather than merely react to - market moves. Read all this and more in our review of the best of the week that was at TradingMarkets.com!

May Up or Down Contest Winner Counts on Luck and Past Performance - TradingMarkets
Meet Jing Mai - who is $1,000 richer after becoming the TradingMarkets Up or Down Stock Contest Winner for the month of May.

The Importance of Knowing Your Trading Style - TradingMarkets
Which markets will I trade? How will I analyze them? What strategies will work best for me? TradingMarkets Select Contributor Toni Hansen helps traders answer these questions in her latest article for TradingMarkets.

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