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Below are stocks making major moves in pre-open trading Wednesday: HIGHER: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) 8HIGHER; financials highers with coordinated central bank liquidity action Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) 6% HIGHER; financials highers with coordinated central bank liquidity action Citigroup, Inc.

(NYSE: C) 6% HIGHER; financials highers with coordinated central bank liquidity action JPMorgan Chase & Co.

(NYSE: JPM) 6% HIGHER; financials highers with coordinated central bank liquidity action The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported its second quarterly loss in 12 years as the firm lost money on investments and revenue declined from trading, asset management and securities underwriting.

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow's trading session: Before The Market Opens Economic: 8:30am EDT

• PPI - Street sees 0.2%
• PPI Core - Street sees 0.1%

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• Net Long-Term TIC Flows - no Street consensus

Earnings: Bank of America Corp.

(NYSE: BAC) - consensus EPS $0.20 Check Point Software Technolog (Nasdaq: CHKP) - consensus EPS $0.70 Coca-Cola Co.

(NYSE: KO) - consensus EPS $1.02 Dominos Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) - consensus EPS $0.33 EMC Corp.

Sept. 7 -- In 2001, Goldman Sachs Group partner Dinakar Singh learned that his 19-month-old daughter, Arya, had a crippling genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy.

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• Housing Starts - Street sees 570K
• Building Permits - Street sees 609K

Earnings: A.O.

Smith Corp. (NYSE: AOS) - consensus EPS $0.50 Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) - consensus loss $0.90 Bank of New York (NYSE: BK) - consensus EPS $0.56 Coca-Cola Co.

(NYSE: KO) - consensus EPS $1.16 Comerica, Inc. (NYSE: CMA) - consensus EPS $0.53 Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) - consensus EPS $0.97 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

June 2 -- John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University, Charles Peabody, an analyst at Portales Partners LLC, and Jacob Zamansky, a securities-arbitrage attorney with Zamansky & Associates LLC, offer their views on a report that Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Although it arguably doesn't need much more support at this point, popular social network Facebook now has the backing of one of Silicon Valley's most respected venture capital firms.  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is said to be investing about $38 million at a valuation of $52 billion.

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow's trading session: Before The Market Opens Economics: 7:00am EST

• MBA Mortgage Purchase Index - no Street consensus

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has prohibited U.S. investors from participating in a private offering expected to raise up to $1.5 billion for social networking site Facebook, citing widespread media coverage that could run afoul of securities guidelines.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will tie the bonuses of top executives more closely to the company's financial performance.