Financial News from Countdown to the Closing Bell from 8/6/2009

“… Bad news — talking tongue and cheek here. Goldman sachs and lincoln national got hit today. Names reporting tomorrow, a.I.G., e.O.G. And EDISON INTERNATIONAL three s&p companies reporting tomorrow. We had upgrades. Lighter volume than yesterday. Yesterday’s volume 1.5 million. It was the heaviest volume since the russell rebalancing. Oil did a whole lot of nothing, down three cents on the day. The volume exceeding the up volume ever so slightly by about 20,000,000 shares. Certainly, that’s not a big …” – EIX on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… Cost, maybe a billion dollars. Costco, target, maceys, gap, limited hot topic some of the bad news — talking tongue and cheek here. Goldman sachs and LINCOLN NATIONAL got hit today. Names reporting tomorrow, a.I.G., e.O.G. And edison international three s&p companies reporting tomorrow. We had upgrades. Lighter volume than yesterday. Yesterday’s volume 1.5 million. It was the heaviest volume since the russell rebalancing. Oil did a whole lot of nothing, down three cents on the day. …” – LNC on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… Cost, maybe a billion dollars. Costco, target, maceys, gap, limited hot topic some of the bad news — talking tongue and cheek here. GOLDMAN SACHS and lincoln national got hit today. Names reporting tomorrow, a.I.G., e.O.G. And edison international three s&p companies reporting tomorrow. We had upgrades. Lighter volume than yesterday. Yesterday’s volume 1.5 million. It was the heaviest volume since the russell rebalancing. Oil did a whole lot of nothing, down three cents on the day. …” – GS on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… All the names on the move, cisco, we got quarterly numbers. A.I.G. Reporting tomorrow. Today talking about breaking it up and how much the fees would cost, maybe a billion dollars. Costco, TARGET, maceys, gap, limited hot topic some of the bad news — talking tongue and cheek here. Goldman sachs and lincoln national got hit today. Names reporting tomorrow, a.I.G., e.O.G. And edison international three s&p companies reporting tomorrow. We had upgrades. Lighter volume than yesterday. Yesterday’s volume 1.5 million. …” – TGT on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… All the names on the move, cisco, we got quarterly numbers. A.I.G. Reporting tomorrow. Today talking about breaking it up and how much the fees would cost, maybe a billion dollars. COSTCO, target, maceys, gap, limited hot topic some of the bad news — talking tongue and cheek here. Goldman sachs and lincoln national got hit today. Names reporting tomorrow, a.I.G., e.O.G. And edison international three s&p companies reporting tomorrow. We had upgrades. Lighter volume than yesterday. Yesterday’s volume 1.5 million. …” – COST on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… On the way up to $4. David henderson said once it hits $4, watch out. All the names on the move, CISCO, we got quarterly numbers. A.I.G. Reporting tomorrow. Today talking about breaking it up and how much the fees would cost, maybe a billion dollars. Costco, target, maceys, gap, limited hot topic some of the bad news — talking tongue and cheek here. Goldman sachs and lincoln national got hit today. Names reporting tomorrow, a.I.G., e.O.G. And edison international three s&p companies reporting tomorrow. …” – CSCO on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… Caps getting hit hard, more so than the averages such as the dow industrial average. The dow down 25 points. CITI with heavy vol volume yesterday. Today, heavy volume. Last I checked 28,000,000 shares to buy. 379 — late yesterday 350. On the way up to $4. David henderson said once it hits $4, watch out. All the names on the move, cisco, we got quarterly numbers. A.I.G. Reporting tomorrow. Today talking about breaking it …” – C on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… Revenue beat the estimate and shares are up. Activision blizzard, makes the hit titles like call of duty and guitar hero. They gained the market share in the last quarter seeing double digit percentage flip side, HUNTSMAN, chemical maker taking a hit as the vin esors focus — investors focus on the slumping demand leading to the result falling short, the stock falling short at this hour. Thoractic with an et ber time profits fell 76%. Hurt by the cost linked to a condition selled deal with heart wear, but the sales topped the expectation. That is helping the stock. They posted a wider than expected second quarter loss, hurt by the lower charter the shares are down 15%. The canadian solar shares are …” – HUN on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… >> liz: five minutes from the close and we count down the seven late movers with shibani. >> start out with the correction, corporation of america. A prison operator in line with the expectations. Revenue beat the estimate and shares are up. ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, makes the hit titles like call of duty and guitar hero. They gained the market share in the last quarter seeing double digit percentage flip side, huntsman, chemical maker taking a hit as the vin esors focus — investors focus on the slumping demand leading to the result falling short, the stock falling short at this hour. Thoractic with an et ber time profits fell 76%. Hurt by the cost linked to a condition selled deal with heart wear, but the sales topped the expectation. …” – ATVI on Countdown to the Closing Bell

“… >> another gauge, dining stocks and we have trends like wendy’s, the fast food joints doing well. Wendy cease in the green. BRINKER didn’t have a good quarter. >> I will piggyback. Watching BRINKER. The symbol is e-a-t. Will owner of chili bar restaurant chain. That stock is down. >> go to washington, d.C. The president talking about sonia sotomayor being approved as the supreme court >> I want to thank the judiciary committee, senator laheay and senator sessions …” – EAT on Countdown to the Closing Bell