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Among the shares expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are those of Deere, Tiffany, Johnson Matthey, and Microsoft.

Stocks In Focus For Wednesday

There has been a lot of press and buzz this year first announcing, then explaining to the world that several countries are graduating from Emerging to Emerged. The exact definition differs between economists and analysts. One measure is for an economy to move from being predominantly based on exports to an economy that includes internal consumption. I wrote earlier this week about China, and now about South Korea. China is proving itself as a fast moving global player, and South Korea is boarding that same bus. Best known for exports, its domestic economy is once again showing its strength. I...

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NYSE Euronext Inc. (NYX) is keen on gaining a listing in China as the country is gearing up to allow such listings. NYSE Euronext is awaiting final confirmation from China’s securities regulator, which is working on setting up a board in Shanghai for listing of firms across the globe. However, the regulator has not yet issued [...]

(NYX) NYSE Euronext Seeks China Market Listing

NYSE Euronext Inc. (NYX) is keen on gaining a listing in China as the country is gearing up to allow such listings.

NYSE Euronext is awaiting final confirmation from China's securities regulator, which is working on setting up a board in Shanghai for listing of firms across the globe. However, the regulator has not yet issued specific guidelines.

Numerous foreign companies, including the global banking giant HSBC Holdings Plc (HBC) and PC maker Lenovo Group (LHL) have expressed interest in listing on China's new board.

NYSE Euronext reported third quarter results on Nov 2. The company swung to a GAAP net income of $125 million or 44 cents per share from a GAAP net loss of $182 million in the prior quarter and a net income of $174 million or 66 cents in the year-ago period. Results included a one-time charge related to merger expenses and exit costs, the impact of the disposition of Hugin Group B.V., the sale of investments in BM&F Bovespa and a fair value adjustment to investment in BIDS Holdings L.P.

Excluding these charges, pro forma earnings per share came in at 53 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus forecast by more than 18%, or 8 cents. The upside was attributable to growth in the company’s core businesses, significant progress from new initiatives which offset lower trading volumes.

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Just like in a bad horror or science fiction movie, adventuring into the stock market will more than likely turn out to be another great start then horrible predictable ending.  The kind where Freddy or Jason show up just when you think your investments are safe, then SLASH!!!!  Blood and stocks everywhere.

The cover story on theStreet.com this weekend plays right into the plot: Coming Week: No Escape for Stocks

They say that after so much volatility in recent weeks, many investors are hoping the markets will calm down and recover going forward, but a number of experts believe there's a lot more churning to be done. Greg Collins, CEO of Fountain Hill Investments said:  "We have risen 10% off the intraday low on the S&P in a relatively short time frame, primarily because the markets were extremely oversold at the low and further fueled by a great deal of short-covering," Collins says. "If the markets break the low of 1310, it likely means the credit markets have deteriorated further and that, coupled with a break of the bullish trend from 2003, could spell further trouble for the equity markets."

He also says "developments regarding the problems with the bond insurers ... are truly important at this time." Talk about a bailout of troubled bond insurer Ambac (ABK) by a group of major banks is one of those, and any rollout of a deal is likely to get a lot of attention from market watchers.

This coming week we hear earnings reports from the following:

Walt Disney (DIS)

PepsiCo (PEP)

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU).

CME Group (CME)

NYSE Euronext(NYX)

Fannie Mae (FNM

Equifax (EFX)

Bankrate (RATE)

Then you've got the Casino companies report in force, with Las Vegas Sands(LVS) taking its turn Monday, and Penn National Gaming(PENN), Trump Entertainment(TRMP) and Ameristar Casinos(ASCA)

Happy Trading next week, if the Masters were to bet long on any of the compaines trading next week, the pick would be NYSE Euronext(NYX).

On Jan 25th, Piper Jaffray upgraded NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) from Neutral to Buy and maintains a $94 price target, citing valuation.

The firm said it expects NYSE Euronext to report Q4 EPS of $0.69, down from the firm's prior estimate of $0.72, mainly on matched market share losses in U.S. cash equities. Piper noted that while market share remains a concern for NYX, the firm sees the slide in market share as slowing. In Q4, the NYSE Euronext saw its matched share of NYSE listed volume fall to 54.3% from 59.5% in Q3, but Piper Jaffray points out that after hitting this level in October, NYX's matched market share rose in both November and December.

Piper Jaffray based NYX's Q4 operating revenues estimate on strong cash trading (making up $444.5 million) and derivatives (making up $214.1 million). The firm noted that average daily volumes in cash equities pulled back during Q4, but was still the second highest in the Company's history.

NYSE Euronext, the holding company for NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., operates an exchange group and offers a diverse array of financial products and services.

    

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A quick update on Cramer’s Stocks of the year: Taking equal amounts at the beginning of 2007 of these nine stocks: His 3 value companies, Altria (MO), Haliburton (HAL), Goldman Sachs (GS) his 3 growth companies, Apple (APPL), Cisco (CSCO), NYSE Group (NYX) his 3 speculation stocks, Savient Pharma (SVNT), Rite Aid (RAD), Level 3 Comms (LVLT) as of last [...]