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Bullish Calls:
Aecom Technology (NYSE: ACM - News): 'This may be the cheapest of the infrastructure plays.'Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC - News): ' ... at $61, should have been bought today... buy, buy, buy! Infrastructure rocks, as does agriculture!'Wachovia (NYSE: WB - News): 'They just raised the dividend, and they said that the bad loans are under control.'Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB - News): 'SLB, to me, is the cheapest. It went down today, along with the whole group. I feel like you can trade up to quality... you can trade up to SLB.'Transocean (NYSE: RIG - News)Tata Motors (NYSE: TTM - News): 'I think, at $15, TTM makes a huge amount of sense.'E*Trade Financial (NasdaqGS: ETFC - News): 'I would buy some here, and let it come down a bit ... There are many companies that have really bad exposure to this mortgage stuff. ETFC is not one of them.'American Capital Strategies (NasdaqGS: ACAS - News): 'I think that this company is a survivor... a lot of people have tried to call it out a lot of times. They're not going to be successful.'Hudson City Bancorp (NasdaqGS: HCBK - News): 'I think we're in dangerous territory with FSLR. Don't buy, don't buy.'Level 3 Communications (NasdaqGS: LVLT - News): 'I like LVLT for one reason... because I believe there's going to be a bandwidth shortage ... I am picking this as a long-term speculation and, when we run out of bandwidth, I'm not backing away.'Tessera Technologies (NasdaqGS: TSRA - News): 'I thought the quarter was going to be good. I got the quarter wrong. I like the story longer term. now, in the low $30s, I would definitely buy it.'Principal Financial Group (NYSE: PFG - News): 'A very cheap stock ... I really like this stock. I was going to buy it for my charitable trust... I didn't get a chance.'LCA-Vision (NasdaqGS: LCAV - News): 'Upgraded today by Raymond James... a big buyback coming... just finished a buyback. I like it.'IBM (NYSE: IBM - News)
Neutral calls:
Dean Foods (NYSE: DF - News): 'This has become a very problematic story and I've got to tell you something... don't buy, don't buy... I don't think it's over, and the company doesn't think the pain's over too.'Banco Popular (NasdaqGS: BPOP - News)Parker Drilling (NYSE: PKD - News)Foster Wheeler (NasdaqGS: FWLT - News): 'On a day like today, up $7, sell, sell, sell... on the conference call, they made it very clear that contracts were lumpy...every time the stock runs a little, I think it's going to run into selling pressure.'First Solar (FSLS)
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Here are 7 stocks for traders for Tuesday from TradingMarkets.com:
Principal Financial Group (NYSE:PFG - News) missed earnings on Monday after the close; analysts were looking for $0.93 EPS, but PFG only announced $0.87 EPS. PFG's PowerRating is 5.
Standard Microsystems (NasdaqGS:SMSC - News) beat earnings on Monday, announcing $0.44 EPS over an expected $0.37 EPS. SMSC's PowerRating is 7.
Archer-Daniels (NYSE:ADM - News) reports earnings on Tuesday before the bell; look for $0.61 EPS. ADM's PowerRating is 6.
Celanese (NYSE:CE - News) announces quarterly earnings Tuesday before the market opens, with analysts watching for $0.73 EPS. CE's PowerRating is 4.
When Liz Claiborne (NYSE:LIZ - News) reports earnings Tuesday morning, watch for $0.60 EPS. LIZ's PowerRating is 5.
NYMEX (NYSE:NMX - News) should report $0.57 EPS before the bell on Tuesday morning. NMX does not have a PowerRating due to its short trading history.
Watch for Qwest (NYSE:Q - News) to announce $0.09 EPS on Tuesday morning. Q's PowerRating is 6.
PowerRatings are courtesy of PowerRatings.net

Labels: ADM, CE, Hot Stocks, LIZ, NMX, PFG, Q, SMSC

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Herbalife Ltd. and Hewitt Associates Inc.
Anadarko (NYSE:APC - News) is expected to report earnings per share of $1.26 for the fourth quarter, according to analysts polled by Thomson Financial.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (NasdaqGS:CTSH - News) is expected to post fourth-quarter per-share earnings of 43 cents.
Hewitt Associates (NYSE:HEW - News) is expected to report first-quarter earnings of 24 cents per share.
Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM - News) is expected to report earnings of 88 cents per share for the fourth quarter.
KLA-Tencor Corp. (NasdaqGS:KLAC - News) is expected to post fourth-quarter per-share income of 61 cents.
Overstock.com Inc. (NasdaqGM:OSTK - News) is expected to report a per-share loss of 85 cents for the fourth quarter.
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI - News) is expected to post fourth-quarter earnings of 77 cents per share.
Principal Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:PFG - News) is expected to report income of 88 cents per share for the fourth quarter.
Rent-A-Center Inc. (NasdaqGS:RCII - News) is expected to report fourth-quarter earnings of 50 cents per share.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE:RCL - News) is expected to post income per share of 20 cents for the fourth quarter.
After Friday's closing bell, Herbalife (NYSE:HLF - News) said it has received an acquisition offer of $38 a share from Whitney V L.P. and its affiliates. The offer represents a 14.8% premium to the Herbalife's closing share price Friday of $33.10. Watch listBisys Group Inc. (NYSE:BSG - News) filed its Form 10-Q for the period ended Sept. 30, 2006, and reported net income of $14 million, compared with $13.4 million during the year-ago period. Revenue for the first fiscal quarter of 2007 was $211.5 million vs. $205.7 million.
E.On AG (NYSE:EON - News) raised its offer for Spanish Endesa S.A. to 38.75 euros a share ($50.22) from 34.5 euros a share. The final bid values all of Endesa's shares at 41 billion euros.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ - News) said it plans to withdraw the listing of its stock from the Nasdaq Global Select Market to reduce costs of exchange listing fees and administrative burdens related to being listed in two exchanges.
Majesco Entertainment Co. (NasdaqCM:COOL - News) said its financial statements for the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 2006 contain a going concern modification. According to a Jan. 29 filing, the company's auditors have issued an opinion indicating that there is substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern because Majesco has incurred net losses for the years ended Oct. 31, 2005 and 2006.
Mediacom Communications Corp. (NasdaqGS:MCCC - News) said it has reached a retransmission consent agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. (NasdaqGS:SBGI - News). Mediacom added that stations will be immediately restored on the Mediacom cable systems in 12 states.
Overstock.com Inc. said it has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco seeking damages of $3.48 billion against a group of companies it says control over 80% of the prime brokerage market.
Unitrin Inc. (NYSE:UTR - News) reported fourth-quarter net earnings of $61.6 million, or 91 cents a share, down 29% from $86.7 million, or $1.26 a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue at the Chicago-based financial services company rose to $763.9 million from $755.9 million.
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