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Boeing Wins Second Chance at Air Force Contract ... Healthways Beats Estimates ... Evergreen Solar Earns $600 million in New Sales ... Pier One Quarterly Loss Worse than Expected ... GM Retreats from SUV, Pickup Truck Redesign Plans ... Circuit City Narrows Losses ... Former Bear Stearns Fund Managers Arrested in Fraud Indictment ....

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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know

Boeing's Bid is Back - Bloomberg
Could election-year politics play a role in deciding if Boeing wins a multi-million dollar Air Force tanker contract it already lost once to Northrop Grumman? Boeing is the Featured Stock in our TradingMarkets Up or Down Stock Contest. You have until 4 p.m. today to tell us whether or not you think Boeing will be up or down on Friday. Click here to register for free for your chance to win $1,000 by correctly guessing the direction of a stock!

Circuit City Lower Losses, Suspends Dividend - Reuters
A reported loss of $1 per share is better than analysts expected. But Circuit City's decision to suspend dividend payments is likely to weigh on the stock.

Higher Rates in Q3? - DailyFX
Chief Strategist for DailyFX Kathy Lien looks at the odds that the Federal Reserve will move from monetary accommodation to monetary restriction in the second half of 2008.

Microsoft/Yahoo! Blame Game - MarketWatch
In the quest to discover who is to blame for the collapse of Microsoft's effort to buy Yahoo! few are under more criticism than Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang.

Solar Stocks Continue To Shine - Reuters
Another $600 million in new sales over the next four years will bolster Evergreen Solar's bottom line. The news follows the recent announcement of Canadian Solar's improved 2008 forecast.

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

• Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is scheduled to report earnings Thursday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of $0.42.
  

• Analyst reports from both Citigroup and Deutsche Bank AG suggesting that gasoline prices are making it difficult for American automakers to move their inventories of SUVs and oversized pickup trucks sent shares of General Motors (GM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Ford (F | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) lower on Wednesday.
  
  
• Reporting earnings Thursday before the bell, Circuit City (CC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced EPS of $-1.00, better than analysts estimates.
  
  
• As we noted Wednesday morning in Morning Coffee with Trading Markets, Pfizer (PFE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) won a concession from the Indian pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories, to delay the release of a generic version of Pfizer's anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor for an additional 20 months.
  
  
• The Government Accountability Office ruled on Wednesday that Boeing (BA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) should be allowed to bid again for a major, $35 billion Air Force contract previously granted to rival Northrop Grumman (NOC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).
  

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

TradingMarkets Tracking the Wizards

Larry Williams on Predicting Stock Direction with the False Break Buy and Sell Pattern - TradingMarkets
Legendary trader Larry Williams introduces a new pattern that can help traders spot reversals as well as opportunities to re-enter trending markets.

Larry Connors Live at Noon - TradingMarkets
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Kevin Haggerty Conference Call at 12:30 p.m. EST Today! - TradingMarkets
Kevin Haggerty, professional trader and former head of the Fidelity Capital Markets trading desk, analyzes the current market and shows where traders can find opportunity amid the volatility. You can catch Kevin live at TradingMarkets by clicking the headline above to reserve your spot now.

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