Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: stock news — 20-01-2012.

U.S. stock futures fell amid disappointing quarterly results at companies including Google Inc., American Express Co. (AXP) and General Electric Co. (GE).

Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Intel (INTC) Corp. added at least 0.9 percent as results beat projections.

Investors also awaited a report which may show that sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose in December to the highest level in more than a year. Greek officials and private creditors entered a third day of negotiations on a debt swap deal that’s crucial to lowering the country’s borrowings and freeing up a second round of international aid.

Global stocks:

Nikkei  8,766 +126.68 +1.47%

Hang Seng 20,110 +167.42 +0.84%

Shanghai Composite 2,319 +23.04 +1.00%

FTSE   5,742 +1.18 +0.02%

CAC 3,316 -12.85 -0.39%

DAX 6,410 -6.20 -0.10%

Crude oil: $99.12 (-1,3%).

Gold: $1651.10 (-0,2%).

GE (GE): Q4 EPS of $0.39 vs cons $0.38. Revenue of $37.97B (-8% Y/Y) misses by $2.06B. Shares of GE -2.61% premarket.

American Express (AXP): Q4 EPS of $1.01 vs cons  $0.99. Revenue of $7.7B (+7% Y/Y) misses by $0.2B. Shares of AXP -2.26% premarket.

Microsoft (MSFT): Q2 EPS of $0.78 vs cons  $0.76. Revenue of $20.89B (+5% Y/Y) in-line. Shares of MSFT +2.24% premarket.

Intel (INTC): Q4 adjusted EPS of $0.68 vs cons $0.61. Revenue of $13.9B (+22% Y/Y) beats by $0.2B. Shares of INTC +0.47% premarket.

IBM (IBM): Q4 EPS of $4.71 vs cons $4.62. Revenue of $29.5B (+2% Y/Y) misses by $0.25B. Shares of IBM +2.62% premarket.

Resistance 3: Y78.30 (Nov 29 high)

Resistance 2: Y77.90 (Dec 29 high)

Resistance 1: Y77.30/40 (area of Jan 6 and 19 highs)

The current price: Y77.14

Support 1:Y77.05 (session low)

Support 2:Y76.70 (Jan 19 low)

Support 3:Y76.55 (Jan 17 low)

Resistance 3 : $1.5570 (Dec 30 high)

Resistance 2 : $1.5525 (Jan 6 high)

Resistance 1 : $1.5500 (Jan 10 high)

The current price: $1.5488

Support 1 : $1.5445 (low of the Asian session on Jan 11)

Support 2 : $1.5400/05 (area of Jan low and high)

Support 3 : $1.5320 (low of the American session on Jan 17)