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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.

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

• 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.

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.

San Francisco (PRESS RELEASE – November 7, 2010) – Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs), and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative announced the 10,000 Small Businesses CDFI Small Business Financing Initiative.

The partnership will expand the small business lending capacity of CDFIs throughout the United States.

NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs Group Inc held its longest-ever annual investor meeting, but Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein faced few questions about civil fraud charges against the company.