Among the shares expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are those of Alvarion, Con-Way, Hartford Financial, Huntsman, Kraft, Time Warner, Tyco Electronics, UAL and Zebra Technologies.

Advisers who pay attention to share repurchases are the Rodney Dangerfield of Wall Street right now -- they just can’t get any respect.

Fluor earnings dropped in the second quarter, but its long-term prospects should pick up again in the near future.

Among the stocks expected to see active trading Wednesday are the miners as well as Adidas, Boyd Gaming, Citi, Dean Foods, R.R. Donnelley, Garmin, International Flavors, Kraft, Nikon, P&G and Swatch.

If I had one word to describe today’s trading action I would use nothing. As in nothing happened today in the market it did nothing or at least that’s what it seems like on the surface. For the day the S&P 500 closed higher by 0.30% to 1005 just off the intra-day and new 6-month high of 1007. This is typical action in the market since the July romp started. The S&P makes a new high pauses and then explodes to another new high. To contradict my opening paragraph I would say today may be more meaningful then “nothing.” ...

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by Benchmark Journal.