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U.S. Auto Sales Continue to Weaken ... Beige Book Admits to Slow Growth in Most Regions ... Technology Stocks Lead Markets Lower ... Crude Oil Retreats Again ... HSBC, Chinese Bank Among Rumored Investors in Lehman Brothers

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

• A new line of iPods are among the announcements rumored to be forthcoming from Apple's (AAPL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) "Let's Rock" media event in San Francisco next week.
  
  
• Coca Cola (KO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced a $2.4 billion dollar deal to acquire the #1 juice maker in China, Huiyan Juice.
  
  
• Toll Brothers (TOL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Thursday morning before the bell. Analysts are expecting a loss of 0.36 per share.
  
  
• Regulatory approval to resume providing municipal bond insurance encouraged traders to bid shares of Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) higher by more than 20%.
  
  
• Up big for the second day in a row, Home Depot (HD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) gained more than 4% on Wednesday.
  
  
• But the biggest gainer in the Dow industrials was General Motors (GM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which was up more than 5%.
  
  
• Take-Two Interactive (TTWO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Thursday after the market closes. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.54.
  

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