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Dow Chemical Drops as Kuwait Pulls Funding for Rohm & Haas Deal ... Energy Shares Lead Asian Stocks Higher Overnight ... General Motors Gets Another Billion from Treasury ...

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

• Weyerhaeuser ( WY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) warned of a soft fourth quarter, encouraging traders and investors to continue selling shares of the timber industry giant.
  
  
  


• The planned acquisition of Rohm & Haas ( ROH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) by Dow Chemical ( DOW | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was threatened by news that Kuwait was withdrawing $9 billion in anticipated funding for the deal.
  
  
  


• Chemical company DuPont ( DD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was also lower on Monday, as the troubled Dow/Rohm & Haas deal weighed heavily on materials stocks.
  
  
  


• Although rising crude oil prices made headlines on Monday, the continued rally in gold helped boost shares of gold mining stocks like Newmont Gold ( NEM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Barrick Gold Corporation ( ABX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).
  
  
  


• Occidental Petroleum Corporation's ( OXY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) gain of nearly 4% on Monday was typical of the buying in the oil/energy sector on the first trading day of the week.
  
  

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