Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Thursday Watch

Late Buy/Sell Recommendations
Citigroup:

- Reiterated Sell on (WAG), target $27.

- Reiterated Buy on (ALTH), target $15.


CSFB:

- Downgraded (HOV) to Underperform, target $2.


Night Trading
Asian Indices are -.25% to +.50% on average.

Asia Ex-Japan Inv Grade CDS Index 146.0 -.50 basis points.
S&P 500 futures +.02%.
NASDAQ 100 futures +.06%.


Morning Preview

BNO Breaking Global News of Note

Google Top Stories

Bloomberg Breaking News

Yahoo Most Popular Biz Stories

MarketWatch News Viewer

Asian Financial News

European Financial News

Latin American Financial News

MarketWatch Pre-market Commentary

U.S. Equity Preview

TradeTheNews Morning Report

Briefing.com In Play

SeekingAlpha Market Currents

Briefing.com Bond Ticker

US AM Market Call
NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator/Heat Map
Pre-market Stock Quote/Chart
WSJ Intl Markets Performance
Commodity Futures
IBD New America
Economic Preview/Calendar
Earnings Calendar

Conference Calendar

Who’s Speaking?
Upgrades/Downgrades

Politico Headlines
Rasmussen Reports Polling


Earnings of Note
Company/EPS Estimate
- (DLM)/.04

- (CIEN)/-.14

- (JTX)/-.70

- (COO)/.62

- (ESL)/.90

- (ZQK)/.03

- (NAV)/.66


Economic Releases

8:30 am EST:

- Initial Jobless Claims for last week are estimated to fall to 565K versus 570K the prior week.

- Continuing Claims are estimated to fall to 6125K versus 6133K prior.


10:00 am EST:

- The ISM Non-Manufacturing report for August is estimated to rise to 48.0 versus 46.4 in July.


Upcoming Splits
- (ABVT) 2-for-1


Other Potential Market Movers
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The Fed’s Fisher speaking, ICSC Chain Store Sales, weekly EIA natural gas inventory report and the ECB rate decision could also impact trading today.


BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are slightly higher, boosted by mining and technology shares in the region. I expect US equities to open modestly higher and to weaken into the afternoon, finishing modestly lower. The Portfolio is 75% net long heading into the day.

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