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Week ahead: Intuit, Novell earnings due

Some key earnings reports from Hewlett-Packard Co. (hwp) and Applied Materials Inc.
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Some key earnings reports from Hewlett-Packard Co. (hwp) and Applied Materials Inc. (amat) didn't provide the news investors were hoping for this week as tech and blue-chip stocks continued to struggle. Agilent Technologies (a), Novell (novl) and Intuit Inc. (intu) report next week.

For the week, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up 27 points to 10,629.87 while the Nasdaq composite closed off 2 points to finish at 3,027.15.

Putting aside the still uncertain presidential election results, Wall Street was a tad disappointed the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee decided to leave both interest rates and their bias unchanged this week. Full story. -- Larry Barrett, ZDNet Inter@ctive Investor

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