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Week in Preview: Alcoa, Intel, JPMorgan Kick Off New Earnings Season

earnings expectationsAlcoa (AA), Intel (INTC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) will kick off a new earnings season this week when they report their results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Here's a quick look at what analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect to see, followed by a glance at what's coming up on the economic calendar.

Alcoa

During its fourth quarter, Alcoa saw increased demand in emerging markets, sold surplus properties, and shared revenue targets with investors. Analysts forecast that earnings for the period will come to 19 cents per share, up from just a penny per share in the same quarter of last year. The New York-based aluminum producer also is expected to post revenue of $5.7 billion for the three months that ended in December, which is 4.5% more than a year earlier.

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Netflix Gains Ground on Cramer Recommendation

Netflix (NFLX) logoShares of Netflix (NFLX) started Tuesday on a high note, with the shares gaining more than 1% out of the gate. Traders appear to be responding to new comments from Jim Cramer, after the host of CNBC's Mad Money offered an upbeat opinion on the stock Monday.

Specifically, Cramer is enthusiastic about Netflix's push into streaming content, and he has high expectations for future subscriber growth. The analyst also argued that the stock's valuation is actually quite reasonable, when measured against the company's long-term growth rate. For traders looking to take part in continued gains by NFLX, Cramer suggested in-the-money call options.

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MGM Resorts Catches a Lift from Cramer Endorsement

Despite a lackluster day for the broader equities market, MGM Resorts International (MGM) has racked up a healthy gain of about 4% so far. Scanning the headlines, it seems that traders are responding to a bullish endorsement for the gaming guru from CNBC analyst Jim Cramer.

"Las Vegas is coming back," declared Jim Cramer on Friday's episode of Mad Money. He went on to add, "MGM's the best way to speculate on the turn, especially considering that they helped get Senate majority leader Harry Reid re-elected."

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MEMC Electronic Materials Catches a Cramer Lift

MEMC (WFR) logoShares of MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR) turned higher right out of the gate Thursday morning, surging roughly 4% with the sound of the opening bell. For the catalyst behind this bullish gap, we need look no further than peripatetic CNBC analyst Jim Cramer.

On Wednesday, the Mad Money host cited MEMC as his top pick within the solar sector. To back up his bullish opinion, Cramer cited three key factors: the recent $380 million sale of subsidiary SunEdison's Italian property, lowball earnings estimates from analysts, and heavy insider buying by company execs in recent months.

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Jim Cramer Sees a 'Very Negative' Trend

I didn't find this recap of Jim Cramer's CNBC show interesting because of his recommendations. I found it interesting because he talks of an overall "bearishness of the market." Cramer noted that this bearishness began in the tech sector, spread to retail, and is now creeping into the food sector.

He notes that it is "remarkable to see how little enthusiasm there is ... even for companies that are doing well." An example of this lack of enthusiasm for good performers is that analysts will cut price targets on a stock, but will raise the company's earnings estimate at the same time.

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Closing Bell: Forgetting About Earnings (CIEN, KO, GS, IBM, MGM, MTG)

Today was an up-day that started out in positive territory and stayed that way nearly the entire day. Earnings news took little out of the indexes even if there was profit taking after many individual reports. There was also no real economic data to digest, so stocks acted on their own.

Here were the official closing bell levels:

S&P 500 1,207.18 +9.66 (0.81%)
Dow 11,130.59 +38.54 (0.35%)
Nasdaq 2,500.64 +20.53 (0.83%)

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Closing Bell: St. Patrick's Day Hat Tricks (GE, FUQI, SNV, HIG, BBI, PLCM, ERC, MEE)

Overseas markets were up on St. Patrick's cheers, or up on continued FOMC promises of keeping rates low. Then a lower producer price index sealed in the day. We are basically back to where the markets are just not wanting to trade off.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 10,733.67 +47.69 (0.45%)
S&P 500 1,166.19 +6.73 (0.58%)
Nasdaq 2,389.09 +11.08 (0.47%)

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The Week in Preview: High Hopes for Coinstar, Agilent, Chipotle, Baidu, Hasbro

Quarterly reports continue to roll out this week, with results due from Allstate Corp. (ALL), Coca-Cola Co. (KO), Marriott International Inc. (MAR), Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP), New York Times Co. (NYT), Pepsico Inc. (PEP), Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), Viacom (VIA), Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and many others. Here's a look at a few of the companies that analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect to be the biggest earnings gainers this week.

Analysts are looking for Coinstar Inc. (CSTR), which distributes coin-counting, DVD-rental, and other self-service kiosks, to report that its fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled from a year ago to $0.32 per share. Revenue for the three months that ended in December is expected to have jumped 26.1% to $329.2 million. The analysts' forecast for the full year calls for earnings of $0.94 per share (+46.8%) on $1.2 billion in revenue (+25.9%). Coinstar has beat earnings estimates in the past three quarters, by as much as six cents per share.

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Humana Earnings Preview: A Signal of Strength in the Sector?

Humana Inc. (HUM), who's shares (like other insurers') received a nice bump from the outcome of the special election in Massachusetts, is scheduled to discuss its fourth-quarter 2009 financial results and 2010 guidance in a conference call Monday, Feb. 1, at 9:00 AM (ET). A live webcast of the call will be available at the company's website.

During the three months that ended in December, Humana expanded its Medicare offerings and launched a share buyback program and a social media tool. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are looking for earnings for that period to have grown 27.7% year over year to $1.48 cents per share. Revenue for the quarter is expected to be 4.0% higher to $7.8 billion.

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JPMorgan Earnings Preview: Expectations High but Down from Q3

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), whose CEO testified before Congress this week, is scheduled to discuss its fourth-quarter 2009 financial results in a conference call Friday, Jan. 15, at 9:00 AM (ET). You can catch the live webcast of the call on the company's website.

During the three months that ended in December, JPMorgan completed the integration of Chase and Washing Mutual banks and declared a quarterly dividend. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are looking for this New York-based financial giant to report that earnings rose 88.7% from a year ago to $0.62 per share, though that is 24.4% lower than in the third quarter. Fourth-quarter revenue is expected to total $27.0 billion, up 56.9% from a year ago, but down from $28.8 billion in the previous quarter.

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The Week in Preview: Fed's Beige Book; Alcoa, JPMorgan and Intel Earnings

The Federal Reserve's first Beige Book report of the year is due out this week. The report is a compilation of anecdotal information on current economic conditions from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Bank districts. The data comes from interviews with business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The previous report, released in December, showed modest improvement in eight of the districts, while the October report confirmed that the economy was stabilizing after earlier declines.

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Closing Bell: When the Market Can't Decide... (NFLX, PALM, T, LVLT, NICE, MOS)

About all the FOMC Minutes did today was agitate those hoping for a dollar rally on currencies because the FOMC members were still concerned about the economic risks. Stronger supplies of oil were also ignored as weather related trading took oil higher from the post-report lows. The ISM non-Manufacturing data also came in just above the break-even point and the ADP data did not signal any major changes for Friday's jobs data. The DJIA and S&P 500 went from negative to positive so many times today that this was mixed regardless of how the averages ended up.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 10,574.06 +2.04 (0.02%)
S&P 500 1,137.14 +0.62 (0.05%)
Nasdaq 2,301.09 -7.62 (-0.33%)

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Closing Bell: Mixed Day After Great 2010 Kick-Off (GOOG, AAPL, CIEN, NOK, F, GS, APC)

We are still seeing mixed economic reports, something which may become the norm for early in 2009. Today was also a fairly unsurprising give-back day when you consider just how much stocks closed up yesterday. Home sales data was disappointing, while there were gains in factory orders. Even today's auto data was mixed despite a clear win outlined below. Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Looking Forward to the End of Stimulus

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says when it happens, you'll hear a lot of noise, but it will be a healthy sign.

Get ready for the following: "The market's about to take a header because the Fed and Treasury are going to take away the stimulus."

First, I don't even know if it is true. We have a Fed chairman who is incredibly independent and a great student of history who recognizes that if World War II had not started, we would have slipped right back into a depression.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: The Big-Name Comeback Kids

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says Pepsi, McDonald's and Intel are set to bounce back with a bang.

You can always tell a benign market by the comeback the doghouse names manage to give you.

Consider the errant cases of Pepsi (PEP) (Cramer's Take), McDonald's (MCD) (Cramer's Take) and Intel (INTC) (Cramer's Take). All three allegedly "disappointed," with Pepsi failing to please on the alleged guide-down after its bottling purchase, McDonald's stuttering on a bad month and Intel on a so-called failed quarter.

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