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Lehman's Considers Sale of Money Management Division ... Goldman Likes Morgan Stanley ... Forex Seasonality and USD/CAD ... Global Sales Buoy HP Profits ... Producer Prices Up, Home Starts Down

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Energy stocks were among the most impressive performers to the upside on Tuesday, with Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Massey Energy Company (MEE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) both climbing by more than 7%.

  • Among the biggest decliners in the Dow industrials was American International Group (AIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which lost nearly 6% on Tuesday.

  • Hewlett-Packard (HPQ | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) beat analysts' earnings estimates by three cents in its report Tuesday after the markets closed.

  • A settlement with U.S. prosecutors in a Medicaid fraud case sent shares of WellCare Health Plans (WCG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) soaring by more than 10%.

  • BJ's Wholesale (BJ | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports earnings Wednesday morning before the bell. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.57.

  • Shares of Lehman Brothers Holdings (LEH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) fell more than 12%, rapidly closing in on the historic, multi-year July lows.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Koppers Holdings Inc. KOP 9
Myriad Genetics Inc. MYGN 9
National Instruments Corporation NATI 9
Parexel International Corporation PRXL 9
United Stationers Inc. USTR 9
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The prizefight between the financials and the energies continues with the energies taking the latest round on Tuesday. Kevin Haggerty, TradingMarkets columnist and former senior vice president for Equity Trading at Fidelity Capital Markets, helps you handicap the next move in this stock market match.

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7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today - TradingMarkets
The Chinese continue to lead in Olympic gold medals, but their ETFs are sorely lagging. The iShares FTSE/Xinhua 25 index ETF, FXI, was down on today along with other Asian ETFs.

TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know

Lehman Brothers' Lament - New York Times
Sales of all or part of the investment banks money management division is being considered as part of an increasingly desperate effort to reverse Lehman Brothers' fortunes.

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Goldman: Buy Morgan Stanley, Sell Citi - Bloomberg
A Citigroup analyst suggests an unlikely pairs trade for aggressive investors and traders looking for bargains among Wall Street's battered financials.

Forex for All Seasons - DailyFX
Seasonality? It's not just for stocks any more as DailyFX's quantitative analyst David Rodriguez explains in this discussion of the USD/CAD.

HP's Powerful Profits - Wall Street Journal
Among some of the unheralded stars of the current stock market are biotechnology companies, which are being acquired by larger pharmaceuticals at a dramatic pace. Barron's provides their list of a few of those biotechs most worth watching.

Prices Up, Construction Down - BusinessWeek
Soaring producer prices and further declines in new home construction remind investors of the box the economy is in.

For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking News section.

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