And what action should you take before your stock reports earnings?
Several years ago a few of us editors here at Forbes received a promotional mailing for one of those hot stock reports with a write up on a little known penny stock called True Religion Jeans (TRLG).
The New York Stock Exchange reports such program trading now accounts for more than 30% of its daily trading volume.
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Juliette Kayyem, CNN contributor and former U.S. assistant secretary for homeland security, cautioned against putting too much stock in the early reports of Arab involvement.
The stock was buoyed on reports over the weekend in the British newspapers that BP thinks it is two weeks ahead of schedule with its relief well.
There does not appear to be a big app that reports as much stock information.
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Should any of the underwriters come out with lukewarm reports, the stock is going to come under some selling pressure.
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CBS, which saw its stock skyrocket in 2011, reports next week.
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But Derivium reports it has no stock and no money in the bank.
These reports show when a stock purchase has been made but shares have not been delivered to the buyer by the three-day settlement deadline.
"Investors' expectations have been lowered because of the news that's been coming out, " said Summers, pointing to Applied Materials' relatively unchanged stock price and its dire earnings reports.
If the stock market survives all of these reports, jobless claims come out Thursday, and the monthly jobs report, Factory Orders, and ISM Non-Manufacturing Index round out the week on Friday.
Several wire service reports blame weakness in the stock today on bearish commentary on the stock from J.
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The deal would likely be stock-for-stock, The Wall Street Journal reports, and lengthy discussions have taken place.
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From an investment perspective, if the reports are true, Apple stock may yet have another leg down in its future.
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Web-based traffic and weather reports, corporate news or stock prices, all beamed to a handheld phone--it seemed like a world-beating treasure.
Excitement over the emergence of a housing market recovery has led to initial exuberance, at least when it comes to media reports and the rapidly rising stock prices of homebuilders.
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Since rumours of his candidacy surfaced last week, Morgan Stanley's stock has traded higher, and there are reports that morale is improving at the battered firm.
But most U.S. companies detail in their annual reports the extent to which a stock option expense plan, such as Coke is enacting, would have affected earnings.
The company has said it will have to restate several years worth of revenues and delay this year's quarterly earnings reports, all while watching its stock price plummet.
It has no daily stock quots or charts of stock price movement but does claim to provide reports on 2, 900 companies and 30 industry sectors in seven Latin American economies.
Exactly a year ago today the stock market was celebrating first-quarter earnings reports, reaching for new highs, after recovering from a stumble in February on concerns about situations outside the U.S., notably rising inflation in Asia and the debt crisis in Europe.
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This is partly because of its poor fourth-quarter stock performance and partly because of recent favorable drilling reports.
Amazon (AMZN) reports disappointing revenues and profits and its stock soars 10%.
Car makers were especially weak, with Mazda Motor dropping 9% after reports it would need to issue new stock to shore up its finances.
The situation will become more clear this week when Apple reports its 4Q 2012 results after the stock market close this Wednesday (January 23).
The site will try to give the public easier access to documents - whether they are government reports or records of a New York Stock Exchange-listed company with interests in a DR Congo mine, our reporter says.
European stock markets were mostly higher Thursday on better corporate earnings reports coming out of Europe.
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