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Note Sale Boosts Freddie's Short Term Fortunes ... BIG, TUES, AEO Report Earnings Before the Bell ... JP Morgan May Suffer Fannie. Freddie-Related Writedowns ... New Homes Sales Data Due Today ... FOMC Releases Minutes of August Meeting

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

• Increasingly overbought, shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) gained more than 2% on Monday as traders cheered the company's decision to sell one of its semiconductor units to Broadcom (BRCM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). Shares of Broadcom were down more than 4%.
  
  
• Analysts are expecting EPS of $-0.04 when Smithfield Foods (SFD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Tuesday morning before the market opens.
  
  
• Credit Suisse Group AG warned on Monday that American International Group (AIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was likely to report housing-bust related writedowns costing more than $2.4 billion.
  
  
• Shares of LDK Solar Company (LDK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) were up more than 9% late in trading on Monday as the maker of solar wafers reported that its 2009 deliveries would likely be double previous estimates.
  
  
• Freddie Mac (FRE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) rallied on Monday after a successful weekly auction of more than $2 billion in short term notes. The stock was higher by more than 17%.
  
  
• Big Lots (BIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Tuesday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.27.
  
  

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