Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Stocks To Keep Your Eye On - 01/09/2008

Company/EPS Estimate
- (MOS)/.73
- (SGR)/.49
- (RT)/-.20
- (AA)/.34
- (RBN)/.67
- (ETP)/.49

DuPont Co. (DD) rose $1.50, or 3.5 percent, to $44.25 before the official open of U.S. exchanges. The third-biggest U.S. chemical maker said 2007 profit was at the ``upper end'' of a previously announced forecast range and raised its prediction for this year.

Exelon Corp. (EXC) fell 10 cents to $85.03 in Germany. The largest operator of U.S. nuclear power plants said its finance chief, John Young, resigned to become chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU Corp.

Oneok Inc. (OKE) rose $2.06, or 4.7 percent, to $45.99 in extended trading yesterday. The U.S. natural-gas distributor said in a statement of preliminary results that profit in 2007 was as much as $2.79 a share. The company previously anticipated as much as $2.72.

Westwood One Inc. (WON): The syndicator of news, sports and music programs on radio said it named Thomas Beusse president and chief executive officer, succeeding Peter Kosann. The stock fell 12 cents to $1.63 in regular trading.

Watch MON, CRL, SIE, VIP, ABT for long breakouts.
Watch TM, FDX, ESI, BDK, STU for short breakdowns.

-MM