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Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
DJIA 15,247.60 -59.59 -0.39%
S&P 500 1,643.33 -12.02 -0.73%
Nasdaq 3,446.89 -16.41 -0.47%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
STOXX 50 2,769.11 -65.90 -2.32%
FTSE 100 6,676.01 -164.26 -2.40%
DAX 8,319.34 -211.55 -2.48%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
Nikkei 14,484.00 -1,143.28 -7.32%
Hang Seng 22,669.70 -591.40 -2.54%
S&P/ASX 200 5,062.45 -102.92 -1.99%

Strategists’ Forecasts for Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in 2013

The table presents estimates from strategists at brokerages for where the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will finish 2013 and how much profit companies in the benchmark measure of U.S. stocks will generate.


Firm                 Strategist           2013 Close   2013 EPS
==============================================================
Bank of America      Savita Subramanian
Bank of Montreal                                       $110.00
Barclays             Barry Knapp
Citigroup*           Tobias Levkovich                  $105.50
Credit Suisse        Andrew Garthwaite
Deutsche Bank**
Goldman Sachs        David Kostin                      $106.00
HSBC                 Garry Evans
JPMorgan             Thomas Lee                        $110.00
Morgan Stanley       Adam Parker                       $103.00
Oppenheimer          Brian Belski
RBC                  Myles Zyblock
UBS***               Jonathan Golub                    $111.00
Wells Fargo          Gina Martin Adams
---------------------------------------------------------------
Mean                                                   $107.58
Median                                                 $108.00
High                                                   $111.00
Low                                                    $103.00

     * Citigroup’s estimate for S&P 500 profit is from Steven
Wieting.
     ** David Bianco, who joined Deutsche Bank in February,
     hasn’t given forecasts yet.
     *** UBS’s estimate for S&P 500 profit is from Thomas
Doerflinger.

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