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August 6, 2011 | Comments (2)

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Monday
The new trading week kicks off with Youku.com (Nasdaq: YOKU ) reporting its second-quarter results.

China's leading video-streaming website has been on a roller coaster since going public at $12.80 eight months ago. The stock hit nearly $70 back in April, but Youku has since shed roughly half of its peak value. Analysts are braced for a small loss as the site operator inches closer to profitability.

Tuesday
Motricity (Nasdaq: MOTR ) calls in on Tuesday.

The company's mCore platform gives wireless carriers a cost-effective way to add smartphone-like data access to cheaper feature phones. The stock is trading well off its all-time highs as investors weight the migration to smartphones, but Motricity's been eyeing international opportunities.

Wednesday
InterOil (NYSE: IOC ) pulls up for its quarterly oil change on Wednesday. The oil explorer has been known to swing around a bit based on news out of its Papua New Guinea project. Analysts see InterOil earning $0.13 a share for the quarter, just shy of the $0.17 a share it posted a year earlier.

Thursday
Chinese social-networking site Renren (NYSE: RENN ) , rare-earth oxides producer Molycorp (NYSE: MCP ) , and home-based water carbonator SodaStream (Nasdaq: SODA ) all report on Thursday. The companies have little in common, though they have all gone public in the last 13 months.

Friday
Friday's are usually ho-hum affairs in terms of corporate events, but those hungry for an earnings report can turn to Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq: MENT ) . Wall Street expects Mentor's profitability to pop fivefold to $0.05 a share.

Until next week, I remain,

Rick Munarriz

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Report this Comment On August 06, 2011, at 11:30 AM, David369 wrote:

I bet the ones reporting good results later than Wed will do better than the companies with good results Monday or Tues. Probably won't matter if the Monday reporting companies say they learned how to turn lead into gold for 10 cents a pound. They will probably ride the coaster down with everyone else.
Report this Comment On August 06, 2011, at 5:14 PM, emphature wrote:

Hey Rick,
Which two are you thinking you'd keep an eye on the most (for good or bad)?

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