- US Recovery to be Weak, Erratic: Top Fed Officials
- AIG CEO Ready to Quit over Pay Constraints: Report
- Retail Earnings in Focus Ahead of Shopping Season
- Investments in Global Oil Projects to Fall Next Year: Shell
- Apple Surpasses Nokia as Top Handset Maker by Profit
- Brazil's Largest Cities Hit by Blackout
- In This Relay-Race Market, Who Gets Baton Next?
- Workers Staying Put at Their Jobs as Jobless Surges
- Ponzi Proceeds: Bidding on Madoff's Toys
- Beware of 'Trampling Effect' When Market Tops: Manager
- Gold Heading to $1150: Art Hogan
- Starbucks Brews Up Growth
- Farr: An Extended Period—No Fat Lady in Sight
- More Upside if S&P Passes This Number: Market Pro
- Murdoch Lashes Out At Google
- Fighting The Flu Vaccine Critics
- Nov. 10: Unusual Volume Leaders
- Shadow Inventory Dwarfs Loan Mods
- US crop estimates may ease fears about wet harvest
- ING returns to profit in Q3
- Holcim Q3 net profit flat at 673M Swiss francs
- Henkel Q3 net income falls 68 pct
- APEC looking to Asia to help keep recovery going
- Hundreds protest AIG sale of Taiwan unit
- Report: AIG CEO ready to quit over pay constraints
- Best Buy leaps into fitness equipment
- 5 pct. of Americans plan to buy a home next year
Premarket roundup: Airgas, Nordstrom
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Among the premarket stories for Monday, Nov. 2, from AP Financial News:
Airgas Inc. is well-positioned to gain from an economic recovery given improved non-tech industrial production, expectations for rising prices and its strong second-quarter results, said an analyst as he upgraded the industrial gas producer's stock.
Lean inventories, contained costs and improving sales should propel profit growth at Nordstrom Inc., said a Deutsche Bank analyst, upgrading the high-end department store to the firm's highest investment rating.
Barnes Group Inc.'s aerospace business will continue to feel the impact of the recession well into next year, an analyst said, trimming his price target on the stock.
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