U.S. financial stocks were posting their best performance in a week and a half late Monday, as the bellwether ETF tracking the sector rose more than 3%.

The route was certainly circuitous but stocks ultimately staged a modest rebound from Friday’s ugly action. Ford’s (F) $997 million profit hoard a three year high in manufacturing and pending home sales posting their eighth consecutive monthly increase all moved equities up. Revlon (REV) after rising 46.1% last week was again a revelation and added another 19.4%; that the lipstick index lives was also evidenced in Estée Lauder’s (EL) 4.4% gain on an upgrade at UBS. While women clearly continue to look their best their men-friends may need to do more to disprove that chivalry is dead on dates if yesterday’s ...

Symantec Corp. and Akamai Technologies Inc. are slated to post quarterly results, with analysts looking for the security software maker and the Internet content-delivery company to post earnings declines.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Aflac Inc., ConocoPhillips and General Dynamics Corp.

The amount of corporate bond sales in September should be much stronger than last month, and not just because summer vacations have ended, an analyst says.

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