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  • The S&P 500 touched a new intraday high and the Nasdaq was briefly trading above 3,500 before reversing course to close slightly in the red. This after four straight weekly gains on the major indexes. It will be a light week for market-moving economic data, so traders may be more focused on the finale of earnings season which will see 27 S&P 500 companies reporting this week.

    Yahoo! (YHOO) a the top attention-getter today on Wall Street as the company announced it's buying micro-blogging site Tumblr. Shares edged higher on the news of the plan. This will be Yahoo's seventh and biggest acquisition since Marissa Mayer became company CEO last July. The web portal will pay $1.1 billion dollars for Tumblr which boasts 108 million members and a very young user base with a high "cool factor."

    Campbell Soup Co. (CPB) is hot, although investors seemed to cool to the stock today. Shares fell 4% despite the company beating on earnings. Excluding items, it posted profits of 62-cents a share when

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  • Gold has gone from lustrous to full-blown loser. It's now down eight days in a row-- its longest streak lower in the last four years. Meanwhile silver's not shining either. Yahoo Finance! Senior Columnist Mike Santoli has more in the video above.

    The biggest headline in corporate news this morning is about our company, Yahoo!(YHOO). It's buying Tumblr, the micro-blogging site. CEO Marissa Mayer tweeted an announcement at 8:13 eastern time. It reads, "I'm delighted to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr. We promise not to screw..." Sources say the Yahoo! board approved a purchase price of $1.1 billion dollars last night. This will be Yahoo's seventh acquisition and the biggest one since Mayer became CEO last July. Tumblr has a very young user base, so one of its selling points is a "cool factor." As for Yahoo!, the stock is up 70% in the last year.

    There will be extra eyes today on Anadarko Petroleum (APC). On Friday the stock had a momentary flash crash. It was

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  • The Campbell Soup (CPB) company is just out this morning with its quarterly report. The company posted earnings of 57-cents a share when analysts had expected 56-cents which would have been the same as one year ago. Sales were up 15% beating expectations and topping $2-billion. Campbell's stock has been a standout among U.S. based packaged food companies. It's Pepperidge Farm division has been doing particularly well perhaps in part because of the collapse of Hostess. Campbell shares are up 32% year to date, which is actually about $5 above its consensus price target.

    Next up is Acquity (AQ) group, which closed under $6 on Friday. But is now trading at more than twice that on news of a takeover bid. The tech consulting firm Accenture (ACN) says it's buying Acquity for $13 a share. Acquity is the second-largest independent digital marketing company in the US. But it's still relatively small with annual revenue of about $140-million. Prior to the announcement of the deal, Acquity was

    Read More »from Campbell Soup Earnings; Clothiers Urban Outfitters and PVH to Report
  • Where does gold go from here? The precious metal is now down the last eight straight days. That's its longest losing streak in four years. Yahoo! Finances Matt Nesto and Mike Santoli discuss what's driving prices down and how low they could go. The pair also talk about Fed minutes being released later this week and the insider trading scandal involving SAC.

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