Stocks To Watch For December 17, 2012

Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Consol Energy CNX announced its plans to cut 147 jobs. Consol Energy shares dropped 0.33% to close at $33.70 on Friday. Wall Street expects Diamond Foods DMND to post its Q1 earnings at $0.23 per share on revenue of $274.44 million. Diamond Foods shares fell 1.21% to close at $13.83 on Friday. Loral Space & Communications LORL appointed Avi Katz as the president of the company. Loral shares fell 1.08% to close at $54.17 on Friday. Shares of Apple AAPL tumbled 3.76% on Friday after Steven Milunovich, an analyst at UBS, cut his price target on the stock from $780 to $700. Apple shares fell 0.45% to $507.50 in after-hours trading. First Bancorp FBNC declared a cash dividend on its common stock of $0.08 per share. First Bancorp shares declined 2.38% to close at $4.11 on Friday.