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Lowe's Reports Before the Bell ... Olympic Games Ratings Make Ads Good Investments ... The Week To Come in Forex ... Biotechs and Buyouts ... Measuring Misery

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

• Retailers were among the big gainers on Friday, with Kohl's (KSS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Nordstrom (JWN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) beating analyst earnings estimates and closing higher by more than 7% and 4%, respectively.
  
  
• Also moving higher at week's end were semiconductor stocks including Cypress Semiconductor (CY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) which was up by more than 12% and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which was up more than 6%.
  
  
• The S&P's decision not to downgrade the credit ratings of Ambac Financial Group (AMK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and MBIA, Inc. (MBI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) led to strong rallies in shares of both companies on Friday.
  
  
• Lowe's (LOW | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Monday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.56.
  
  

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

TradingMarkets Making Great Traders

Making Great Traders - TradingMarkets
From Part 2 of our special Big Saturday Interview with Market Wizard Linda Raschke to Charles LeBeau's insightful article on exit strategies, our weekly "Making Great Traders" column will make sure you don't miss the best of the week that was at TradingMarkets!

Trader Linda Raschke: A Market Wizard at Work, Part 2 - TradingMarkets
Catch Part 2 of this extraordinary interview between the two authors of Street Smarts, Market Wizard Linda Raschke and TradingMarkets CEO and founder, Larry Connors.

7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today - TradingMarkets
Falling commodity prices created a number of significant moves in ETFs related to energy, materials and precious metals on Friday. Latin America-related ETFs also continued to move lower at week's end.

TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know

Housing and Home Repair - MarketWatch
Will continued weakness in the homebuilding sector weigh heavily on Lowe's earnings - due out Monday morning before the opening bell? Or is fixing up your home with products from home retailers like Lowe's and Home Depot the next best thing to selling it both your home and these stocks?

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Olympic Eyes Bring Advertising Smiles - BusinessWeek
Gains in Olympic viewership in 2008 are a boon to the Games' advertisers.

Forex Trading Weekly Forecast - DailyFX
Get ready for the forex trading week with DailyFX's team of top analysts and strategists. The Greenback, Euro, Pound, Yen as well as Canadian and Australian dollar are among the currency pairs covered.

Biotechs are Back - Barron's
Among some of the unheralded stars of the current stock market are biotechnology companies, which are being acquired by larger pharmaceuticals at a dramatic pace. Barron's provides their list of a few of those biotechs most worth watching.

Remembering the Misery Index - ThinkProgress
The cruel combination of inflation and stagnant economic growth that gave rise to the Misery Index is back - and at its highest levels since 1991.

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