Investors traded stocks cautiously Tuesday as lackluster corporate results renewed questions about how quickly the economy can recover from the recession.

Wall Street fluctuated in the early going as traders watched bank stocks for signals about the market's direction. Some back and forth was to be expected after heavy selling Monday and a flurry of corporate comments about the economy.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp., Caterpillar Inc. and drugmaker Merck & Co. posted results or issued forecasts Tuesday that fell short of what the market expected. Wall Street is uneasy because analysts had set expectations low after a bruising January that saw fourth-quarter results short-circuit a stock market rally.

Bank of New York Mellon's first-quarter earnings fell a steeper-than-expected 57 percent. The company said it was slashing its dividend to shore up capital. The stock fell $3.46, or 12.3 percent, to $24.57.

Construction equipment maker Caterpillar posted better-than-expected earnings but reduced its forecast. The stock fell $1.29, or 4.2 percent, to $29.19.

Merck reported a 57 percent drop in first-quarter earnings because of a fall in both sales of its drugs and income from its partnership on cholesterol medicines. Merck fell $1.98, or 7.8 percent, to $23.24.

In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 5.50, or 0.1 percent, to 7,836.23. Broader stock indicators were mixed. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 0.26, or less than 0.1 percent, to 832.13, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 8.97, or 0.6 percent, to 1,617.18.

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GWS Technologies, Inc.,  (OTC BB: GWSC) was a SmallCapVoice.com top performer moving up over 25% on trading volume of 15,569 shares.

GWS is an alternative energy company developing renewable energy solutions. A “green” wave of emerging environmental regulations, and government-wide “green” initiatives, are changing the way consumers, the commercial sector, and states, counties and municipalities, do business. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Dana Resources (OTC BB: DANR)

Dana Resources, a US-based precious and base metals exploration company with advanced stage gold properties in Peru, is pleased to announce that they have acquired a 100% interest in the claim known as the Las Horquetas Project, in Peru.

Las Horquetas is a copper-gold porphyry prospect and is located in northern Peru. The project covers a 2,223 acre area and lies approximately 120 kilometers northeast of the city of Piura in the District of Las Lomas. The property is situated in the same copper-gold belt as the world famous Tambo Grande deposits (gold, copper and zinc) to the south west.

Dana Resources is planning to continue the geophysical study of the area and will complement the study with additional drilling.

Dana Resources considers this volcanic belt (Lancones Basin), formed by the intrusion of ganodiorite to have considerable potential to be a profitable copper-gold project.

With some of the richest mineral reserves in the world, Peru is one of the highest producing countries of precious & base metals in Latin America. Previously inaccessible regions are now becoming available through modern technology and equipment, making the high diversity of marketable minerals an extremely attractive prospect. Peru holds about 16 per cent of the world's known mineral reserves.

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