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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Thursday

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

• Research in Motion (RIMM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reports quarterly earnings Thursday after the market closes. Analysts are expecting EPS of 0.87.
  
  
• Standard and Poor's downgraded the credit rating of Washington Mutual (WM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) again on Wednesday. The stock was down more than 20% on the day.
  
  
• The biggest loser in the Dow industrials on Wednesday was American International Group (AIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which lost more than 29%.
  
  
• Goldman Sachs (GS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is getting a $5 billion investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
  
  
• Reporting earnings Thursday morning after the bell, Accenture (ACN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is expected to announce earnings per share of 0.66.
  
  
• Broadcom (BRCM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) rallied by more than 4% after a judge's ruling that Qualcomm (QCOM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) had infringed on patents owned by Broadcom.
  

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