Trading Radar for 10/22: AT&T (T), McDonalds (MCD), Amazon.com (AMZN), 3M (MMM), Dow Chemical (DOW), UPS (UPS) Report Oct 21, 2009 02:30PM

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow's trading session:

Before Market Opens:
Economics:
8:30am ETInitial Jobless Claims – Street Sees 517KEarnings:

Akeena Solar (NASDAQ: AKNS) – consensus loss $0.10
Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE: ALK) – consensus EPS $2.26
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN) - consensus EPS $0.21
AT&T (NYSE: T) - consensus EPS $0.50
Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) – consensus EPS $1.47
Cabot Microelectronics(NASDAQ: CCMP) – consensus EPS $0.36
Cash America International (NYSE: CSH) – consensus $0.72
CONMED (NASDAQ: CNMD) – consensus EPS $0.16
Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) – no consensus
Danaher (NYSE: DHR) - consensus EPS $0.86
Delta Air Lines, Inc (NYSE: DAL) – consensus loss $0.05
Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ: DRAD) – no consensus
Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE: EXP) – consensus EPS $0.28
Ensco International (NYSE: ESV) – consensus EPS $1.04
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) – consensus loss $0.17
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David Moenning's Daily State of the Markets: 10/23 Oct 23, 2008 10:07AM

All About Redemptions

In looking at Wednesday’s thrashing, there appear to be so many reasons and so little time this morning – so, let’s get right to it. The Dow plunged another 514 points yesterday and in the process, scared the bajeebers out of just about everyone that still happens to own any stock at all. After briefly flirting with some performance anxiety this week during the market’s upside adventure, all of a sudden any exposure to stocks feels wrong again. And with the S&P breaking down to a fresh new low, albeit by just a hair, fear made a triumphant return to the corner of Broad and Wall yesterday.

The good news is that the credit markets continue to, as they are now saying on Wall Street, “thaw.” In short, this means that rates for short-term funding (such as commercial paper) have become a little more reasonable again, which ...