Pre-Market Stock Notes (FEB 5, 2007)

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(ALVR) Alvarion announces that the leading Taiwanese telecom service provider Chunghwa Telecom has selected its WiMAX solution
(APC) Anadarko will record a $100 million charge on taxes in Algeria.
(BA) Boeing gets a 27 plane order from UPS.
(BKC) Burger King holders filed to sell 20 million shares.
(DCX) Daimler Chrysler reportedly cutting 10,000 factory jobs.
(ELOS) Syneron Medical (ELOS) announces the initiation of a multi-center clinical study with Obagi Medical Products (OMPI).
(ENZ) Enzo Biochem raises $15 million in registered direct offering.
(GNBT) Generex Biotech announced that volunteers selected for human clinical trial of its synthetic avian influenza vaccine.
(HC) Hanover Compressor raised guidance.
(HEP) Holly Energy $0.56 EPS vs $0.50e.
(HERO) Hercules Offshore $1.09 EPS vs $1.00e.
(HUM) Humana $0.92 EPS vs $0.88; stock higher on overall 2007 looking better than Q1.
(IFIN) Investors Finacial Services is being acquired by State Street for roughly $65.00 in stock; IFIN trading up 35%.
(KNTA) Kintera has a shareholder calling for the ouster of the CEO.
(MLS) Mills Corp gets a $24.00 confirmed offer from Simon Property (SPG) and Fallon.
(REGN) Regeneron licensed its VelocImmune technology to AstraZeneca for discovering human monoclonal antibodies.
(SCLN) Sciclone will proceed to Phase II dosing range for a variety of diseases fro SCV-07.
(SHLD) Sears Holdings is appealing a ruling of $73+ million for dissenting creditors that went against on Friday.
(SNCR) Synchronoss Tech gets order management pact from Time Warner Cable.
(TIN) Temple-Inland $0.73 EPS vs $0.73e.
(TRI) Triad entered merger agreement with CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Partners for what looks to be $50.25 per share in cash; versus $43.27 close and versus $45.67 year-high; stock up 15%.
(WMT) Wal-Mart now gave a 2.2% same store sales forecast instead of 1.2%; stock up 1% in pre-market trading.

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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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