Monday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

By | TradingMarkets.com | March 02, 2009 09:00 AM
Symbols: IBM, FNM, C, GE, LEAP








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U.S. Stocks Slide Deeper Into Oversold Territory Below 200-day Moving Average ... Asian Stocks Lower on Japan Recession Fears ... Risk Aversion Boosts Dollar Against Yen, Euro ... Earnings on Deck for Today Include: TIVO, DISH, OSG, EIX, CEL ...



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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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  • The U.S. Treasury reached a deal with Citigroup ( C | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) whereby the government would convert $25 billion in preferred stock into common stock in the struggling bank. The public stake in Citigroup now stands at 36



  • In another effort to support its credit rating, General Electric ( GE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced a dividend cut of 68% on Friday.



  • Fannie Mae ( FNM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) will seek additional public support after reporting a much wider than expected quarterly loss.




  • IBM ( IBM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) closed at its highest closing level in nine days on Friday. The stock is increasingly overbought below the 200-day moving average.



  • A forecast of resilient consumer demand made discount wireless operator Leap Wireless ( LEAP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) one of the bigger winners on an day dominated by falling stocks. Trading below its 200-day moving average, LEAP closed higher by more than 9%.



  • Announcing earnings on Monday are home entertainment-related companies, TiVo Inc. ( TIVO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and DISH Network Corporation ( DISH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). DISH is expected to report EPS of 49 cents before the open. Analysts are expecting an earnings per share loss of 10 cents from TIVO after the close.


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Company
Symbol PowerRatings
InterMune Inc. ITMN 9
Open Text CorporationOTEX 9
Osiris Therapeutics OSIR 8
Aqua America Inc. WTR 8
Emergent Biosolutions Inc. EBS 8





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Although up from their lowest levels on Friday, financial stocks remained under selling pressure. Selling also continued in the health care sector, leading to pullbacks for health care exchange-traded funds like the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Sector Index Fund ETF.








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Original publication: March 02, 2009

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