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Stocks to watch Friday: Molycorp, Zipcar

8/2/12 4:41 PM ET (MarketWatch)

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Among the stocks that could see active trade in Friday's session are Molycorp., Zipcar and Activision Blizzard.

Late Thursday, Molycorp (MCP) fell 12% after reporting that it swung to a loss in its latest completed quarter.

Activision Blizzard (ATVI) was also under pressure as it posted declines in both top and bottom line results for the second quarter.

Zipcar (ZIP) was off 6% after it came up short of Wall Street expectations in the second quarter and trimmed its full tear targets.

P&G (PG) is slated to report its fiscal fourth quarter results. The household products giant is expected to earn 77 cents a share on revenue of $20.26 billion, according to the average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet.

Viacom(VIA) is also up, and the media company will post a profit of $1 a share on revenue of $3.49 billion if Wall Street's best guesses are on the mark.

Alliant (LNT) will earn 47 cents a share with sales of $699.7 million if it meets analyst expectations.

Other firms scheduled to release quarterly financials include Washington Post(WPO) , WellCare (WCG) and ITT(ITT) .