Pre-Market Stock Notes (FEB 6, 2007)

(ABT) Abbott announces plans to initiate the world’s first drug-eluting stent clinical trial solely in women.
(ADM) Archer Daniels Midland named Patricia Woertz as Chairman.
(ALD) Allied Capital received subpoena from U.S. Attorney over phone records illegally being taken.
(ALU) Alcatel-Lucent may cut 20,000 jobs now, more than the pre-merger estimates.
(AMSC) American Superconductor says receives order from Suzlon Energy for Australian wind farm.
(AVP) Avon $0.41 EPS vs $0.38e.
(BCRX) BioCryst Pharm says EMEA grants Orphan Drug designation to it’s Fodosine for the treatment of cutaneous T-Cell lymphoma.
(CE) Celanese $0.77 EPS vs $0.58e.
(CHINA) CDC Corp puts Q$ guidance higher than expected.
(CMS) CMS Energy announces sale of ownership interests in businesses in the Middle East, Africa, and India.
(CMTL) Comtech Telecom receives $2.5M purchase order amendment for NATO Force tracking system.
(CSCO) Cisco reports earnings after the close.
(CYBX) Cyberonics depression implantable device will not get Medicare coverage.
(DRIV) Digital River announced $9.4 million charges in 8-years of options pricing, but says no officer or director engaged in any wrongdoings for personal gains.
(EMR) Emerson $0.55 EPS VS $0.53e.
(EOP) Equity Office gets raised bid by Blackstone to $55.50 per share.
(GE) GE is acquiring into the EU Water Market.
(HOKU) HOKU Scientific and Solar-Fabrik announce plan to increase volume of polysilicon supply agreement.
(HOLL) Hollywood Media acquires broadway ticketing business of Showtix.
(IMCL) ImClone Systems opts-out of development agreement with UCB to focus resources to focus on vascular growth receptor.
(ISE) International Securities Exchange $0.41 EPS vs $0.37e.
(JRC) Journal register $0.26 EPS vs $0.24e.
(MANT) ManTech Wins $80M Army contract to support global property management services.
(MHP) McGraw Hill’s S&P unit is acquiring two index fund families from Goldman Sachs.
(MOVI) Movie Gallery is refinancing its senior credit facilities.
(MTG) MGIC merging with Radian (RDN) for 0.965 shares of MTG per RDN share.
(NSM) National Semiconductor lowered guidance.
(OMTR) Omniture gets Zune optimization order from Microsoft.
(OPXA) Opexa Therapeutics announced encouraging clinical data on novel T-Cell vaccination therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.
(PLD) Prologis $1.11 EPS vs $1.07e.
(RATE) Bankrate.com $0.27 EPS vs $0.24e.
(RNWK) Real Networks is acquiring Atrativa in Brazil.
(SCRX) Sciele Pharma signs a development and marketing agreement for a Novel Combination of fenofibrate and pravastatin to treat mixed dyslipidemia.
(SOHU) Sohu.com $0.16 EPS vs $0.17e.
(STZ) Constellation Brands is buying Svedka Vodka-Mark One.
(TBIO) Transgenomic renews collaboration with Fiuotecnica S.r.l. to develop and market gene panel for cardiovascular disease.
(TM) Toyota showed 7% earnings gain.
(TWTR) Tweeter $0.08 EPS vs $0.20e; unsure if comparable but cites television category competition as reason for weakness.
(TYC) Tyco $0.45 EPS vs $0.44e.
(ULBI) Ultralife Batteries receives $4.6 mln in military battery orders.
(URBN) Urban Outfitters reports Q4 sales of $360.8M vs $358.0M consensus.
(VIAC) ViaCell has made the decision not to advance CB001 in future clinical trials.

by Jon C. Ogg