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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Tuesday

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

• Microsoft ( MSFT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced that it was both increasing its share buyback program to $40 billion as well as raising its dividend by 18%.
  
  
  


• After petitioning the Federal Reserve, both Morgan Stanley ( MS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Goldman Sachs ( GS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) have been granted status as bank holding companies. The move marks the end of the independent investment bank era on Wall Street.
  
  
  


• Indicative of the strength in gold mining stocks on Monday, Barrick Gold Corporation ( ABX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was up more than 9%.
  
  
  


• Reporting earnings on Wednesday after the market closes, Nike Corporation ( NKE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced on Monday a plan to buy an additional $5 billion of its own stock.
  
  
  


• Also on the share buyback bandwagon on Monday was Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which announced a plan to increase their share buyback program by an additional $8 billion.
  
  
  


• Homebuilder Lennar ( LEN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Tuesday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting a loss of 0.52 per share.
  
  

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