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Royal Dutch Shell and BP Profit Rises... Valero Net Drops 85%... Petro-Canada Profit Up 82%... Visa Beats Estimates, MasterCard Reports Impressive Results... Boyd Gaming Swings to Q1 Loss.

Asian stocks up... European stocks mixed... Dollar higher... And the futures are pointing to a slightly lower open.

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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know

High Oil Prices Boost Shell Profit, Offsetting Lower Refining Margins - Wall Street Journal
Royal Dutch Shell and BP posted sharp net profit rises for the first quarter as the top two listed European oil companies continue to benefit from higher oil prices.

Deutsche Bank Posts First Loss in Five Years After $4.2 Billion Writedown - Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, reported its first quarterly loss in five years after writing down the value of loans for leveraged buyouts and asset-backed securities by 2.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion).

Archer Daniels Midland Quarterly Profit Up 42% - MarketWatch
Archer Daniels Midland's third-quarter profit jump 42% as a result of sharp increase in prices for grain commodities.

Gaming the Options - Portfolio.com
Microsoft has been remarkably quiet since the passage of its Saturday deadline for striking a Yahoo deal. What options are being weighed?

United and US Airways Agreement Said to Be Close - Time
United Airlines and US Airways are in very advanced talks and expect to announce within weeks that they are combining, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Monday.

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

TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

• Shares of WM. Wrigley Jr. (WWY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) surged more than 23% after the company reported earnings that beat estimates and agreed to a $23 billion merger with privately held Mars.
  
  
• Ford (F | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) shares jumped nearly 10% after Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda announced it owns 4.7% of the company and plans to increase its holding.
  
  
• After the close, Hartford Financial (HIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) beat estimates by $0.05.
  
  
• Visa (V | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reported Q2 earnings of $0.52 after the close, beating the consensus estimate by $0.07.
  
  
• Before the market open and hot on the heels of Visa's numbers, MasterCard (MA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) beat estimates by $0.59 per share.
  
  
• Valero Energy (VLO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) earnings were $0.19 better than forecast.
  
  
• And finally, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) beat by $0.10.
  

For a list of today's highest PowerRating stocks, click here.

TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

TradingMarkets Tracking the Wizards

TradingMarkets Swing Trading College Starts Today! - TradingMarkets
In Session 1, TradingMarkets CEO and Founder Larry Connors will be lay the foundation of essential knowledge you need to know about how the markets work.

Call Options At Work: A Trader's Guide - TradingMarkets
Let us examine the use of the call option in the financial markets.

Free Report! The Only 3 Options Trading Strategies You'll Ever Need - TradingMarkets
There may be as many ways to trade the market as there are traders who want to do so. But the difference between the professionals and the amateurs when it comes to trading is that the majority of professional traders know that the edge lies in buying markets when they are weak and selling them when they are strong.

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