Stocks to watch today Apple, Inc (APPL), Ford Motor Company (F), Intel Corporation (INTC), and Koss Corp (KOSS)

The DJIA added 91.75 pts, or 0.89% to close at 10,374.16, the S&P 500 rose 10.64 pts, or 0.97%, to close at 1,105.24, the NAS tallied up a + 22.46 pts, or 1.01%, to end the session at 2,235.90.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that interest rates will remain low; the catalyst that drove US stocks higher Wednesday. Despite Wednesday’s gains, the major indexes are still negative for the week after Tuesday’s decline, the largest in nearly 3 weeks.
The US SEC adopted a New Rule that restricts short selling in stocks that have fallen more than 10% on any given day, reining in players who bet on a stock’s decline/demise.
Crude Oil was strong on the day. It finished 1.3% higher at US$79.93 bbl, despite a larger than expected build-up in weekly Crude Oil inventories. US Treasuries had a lame session as a US$42B auction of 5-year T-Notes drew a yield of 2.395% and attracted a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.75 and an indirect bidder participation of 40.3%.
Advancing Sector(s): Financials (+1.7%), Consumer Discretionary (+1.3%), Tech (+1.1%), Industrials (+0.9%), Energy (+0.8%), Health Care (+0.8%), Consumer Staples (+0.7%), Telecom (+0.4%), Utilities (+0.1%)
Declining Sector(s): Materials (-0.1%)
Volume and Breadth: About 7.63B/shrs traded on the NYSE, the American Stock Exchange and NAS, again below last year’s estimated daily average of 9.65B/shrs. Advancers outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by 11 to 4, and on the NAS, more than 5 stocks rose for each 3 that fell.
Stocks to Watch Today
Apple, Inc (APPL), Ford Motor Company (F), Intel Corporation (INTC), and Koss Corp (KOSS)

Posted by Shayne Heffernan on Feb 25th, 2010and filed underLatest News, USA.You can follow any responses to this entry through theRSS 2.0You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site