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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

• Up more than 5% on the day, American International Group (AIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was the leading gainer in the Dow industrials.
  
  
• Nokia (NOK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) lost more than 7% on Friday, as the cellphone maker lowered its forecast for third quarter market share gains.
  
  
• In a day of merger rumors, UST Inc. (UST | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was higher by more than 25% intraday when Altria Group (MO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced that it was in negotiations to buy the company for $10 billion.
  
  
• Analyst downgrades from both Citigroup and Merrill Lynch sent shares of Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) lower by more than 4%.
  
  
• National Semiconductor (NSM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) rallied from its intraday lows to close down approximately 1% after missing analyst earnings estimates by a penny on Friday.
  
  
• Shares of SanDisk Corporation (SNDK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) soared by more than 30% on Friday on news that Samsung Electronics was considering acquiring the company.
  

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