Tuesday Watch

Late-Night Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Volatility on currency options fell further from the eight-year high touched this month as concern eases that a US housing slump is spreading.
- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway(BRK/A) boosted its stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.(BNI), the second-largest US railroad, by 24%.
- Asustek Computer shares rose the most in a month after the Taiwan computer-parts maker more than doubled its second-quarter profit on laptop orders.
- A new international university aims to improve technology education in North Korea as tensions appear to be easing between the reclusive communist country and the rest of the world.

MarketWatch.com:
- This bull’s pawing the ground. Commentary: Band sees market rising as much as 30% by November 2008.

USAToday.com:
- Gas prices hit 5-month low heading into holiday weekend.

NY Times:
- Late to Web Retailing? There’s Still Money There.
- Bigger Than Las Vegas? That’s Macao’s Bet.

UPI:
- End in Sight for US Subprime Crisis?

Financial Times:
- Renaissance Technologies, the $30 billion hedge fund run by billionaire mathematician James Simons, is considering selling a minority stake to a big outside investor or group of investors in coming weeks.
- The number of foreign students accepted by US graduate schools has risen for a third consecutive year, according to a survey to be released on Tuesday.

Times of India:
- Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., India’s biggest drugmaker, may buy US-based Bradley Pharmaceuticals(BDY) for as much as $300 million.

Late Buy/Sell Recommendations
Citigroup:
- Reiterated Buy on (SYY), target $39.

Night Trading
Asian Indices are unch. to +.50% on average.
S&P 500 futures -.07%.
NASDAQ 100 futures +.01%.

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Earnings of Note
Company/EPS Estimate
- (ARUN)/.00
- (BGP)/-.33
- (CMED)/.25
- (COCO)/.03
- (DY)/.32
- (MCRS)/.70
- (NX)/1.00
- (SAFM)/1.93
- (SMTC)/.15
- (NCTY)/.36

Upcoming Splits
- SSYS 2-for-1
- TISI 2-for-1
- FTI 2-for-1

Economic Releases
10:00 am EST
- Consumer Confidence for August is estimated to fall to 104.0 versus 112.6 in July.

2:00 pm EST
- Minutes of August 7 FOMC Meeting.

Other Potential Market Movers
- The Case-Shiller 2Q Home Price Index, Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index, weekly retail sales reports and (NLC) Annual Investor Day could also impact trading today.

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly higher, boosted by real estate and technology stocks in the region. I expect US equities to open modestly lower and to rally into the afternoon, finishing mixed. The Portfolio is 100% net long heading into the day.