Sunday, April 10, 2011

THIS WEEK'S MARKET MOVERS

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Courtesy of ChartsEdge
Monday:
Economic: N/A.

Earnings:  Nuclear-entangled engineering outfit Shaw Group (
SHAW) reports. Analysts expect profits of $0.49 per share versus prior year's $0.48, while bulls yearn for no additional hints of future fallout.

After Hours: Dow component and aluminum heavyweight Alcoa (
AA) officially kicks off the Q1 earnings season. The company is slated to turn a profit of $0.27 per share versus the prior year's $0.10. Technically, shares are attempting to successfully breakout of a multi-week cup base formed at its prior intermediate highs set in January 2010.

Tuesday:
Economic: Trade Balance (-$45.7B), Import / Export, Treasury Budget ($189.0B).

Earnings:
Fastenal (FAST), ADTRAN (ADTN).

Wednesday:
Economic: Weekly Crude, Mortgage Apps, Business Inventories (0.8% vs. prior 0.9%), Beige Book.


Earnings:
Dow component and financial giant JP Morgan Chase (JPM) reports. Analysts see profits of $1.15 vs. last year's $0.74 per share. Technically, shares are developing cup-shaped base of several weeks which lines up with last April's intermediate highs.

Other AM: ASML Holding (
ASML).

Thursday:
Economic:  Weekly Claims (385K vs. 382K prior), Continuing (3.70M vs. 3.72M), PPI & Core (1.0% & 0.2% vs. prior 1.6% & 0.2%).

Earnings: Check Point (
CHKP), Fairchild (FCS), Hasbro (HAS), Progressive (PGR), Supervalu (SVU).

After Hours:
Internet giant Google (GOOG) reports. Analysts expect profits of $8.13 compared to $6.76 in 2010. The April contract which expires the next session is priced around 41% IV and in effect pricing a 68% likelihood that shares of GOOG will remain within 6.50% of its current stock price.

Friday:
Economic: CPI & Core (0.5% & 0.2% vs. prior 0.5% & 0.2%), Empire (15.0 vs. 17.5), IP & CU (0.6% & 77.4%), Michigan (66.0 vs. 67.5).

Earnings:
Technically dragging of late Bank of America (BAC) is expected to show flat profits of $0.28 per share. For the bulls, which this strategist favors currently, shares of BAC could be developing a three-month long double bottom base in and around 200SMA and Golden Cross support. For the bears, the same chart can be spied as having a series of lower highs.

Others: Genuine Parts (
GPC), Infosys (INFY), Mattel (MAT).

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