US Stock Market Wrap (DEC 6, 2006)

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DJIA    12,309.25; Down 22.35 (0.18%)
NASDAQ    2,445.86; Down 6.52 (0.27%)
S&P500    1,412.90; Down 1.86 (0.13%)
10YR-Bond    4.481%     Up 0.039
NYSE Volume    2,638,164,000
NASD Volume    1,857,818,000

Shares of Ford (F) Fell another 4.1% to $7.36 after the company has one massive borrowing plan to the tune of $22 to $23 BILLION.  Convertible arb players drove the stock lower shorting to hedge their note purchases.  Maybe it is a "burrowing plan" instead. Cramer said this one can go to $6.50.

Apple (AAPL) fell 1.6% to $89.83 on WSJ reports of iPods breaking after hard use and the like, but this was a fairly hogwash report as this is already known and has to be expected.

(DOCC) Docucorp gets $10 buyout offer; shares rose to $9.76, up 30%.

(IDCC) Interdigital fell 7% to $30.50 on lowered guidance.

(NOVL) Novell fell 5% to $5.99; EPS beat target but revenues and revenue guidance were soft.

(PLAB) Photronics rose 2.5% to $16.18; earnings posted at $0.21 EPS vs $0.16e.

(PNRA) Panera said s-s-s DEC will be 1.4% instead of 4%; fell 3% to $56.94.

(TBL) Timberland up 3% to $32.73 after Cramer said VFC should acquire it.

(WRSP) WorldSpace selling 3M shares from founders; stock fell 2.6% to $4.79.

(YHOO) Yahoo! restructuring top management; Susan Decker dropping CFO role to move to head of Ad unit and they are canning the COO.  Semel is still CEO for now.  Stock down 2% to $26.86.

Hain Celestial (HAIN) fell 3.7% to $29.80 after its rating was cut to Neutral at UBS.

KBW, Inc. (KBW) rose 0.6% to $28.76 after posting a large y/o/y rise in EPS income, although there are no estimates on teh recent IPO.

Altera (ALTR) widened out its prior 2-5% sequential revenue drop to a new range of a 5-7% drop, but the stock was only down 0.4% to $20.21.  What does that tell you about the stock?

Novellus (NVLS) fell 4.78% to $32.88 after Goldman Sachs cut its rating to a Sell.

General Electric (GE) fell 0.4% too $35.11 but had been positive before end of day selling after Goldman Sachs put it on its Americas Conviction Buy List.

GO America (GOAM) rose 37% to $7.80 after it unveiled a new expansive web service for the Deaf……..I guess they won’t as "Can you hear me now!?"

Halozyme (HTI) shares soared 59% to $4.55 on major licensing pact with Roche.

Biovail (BVF) rose 9.5% to $20.72 after the CFO was leaving and will pay more to shareholders.

Rite-Aid (RAD) rose another 6% to $5.11 on hopes that Eddie lampert may be interested, plus cramer was out on the name.

Jon C. Ogg
December 6, 2006

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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