Pre-Market Stock Notes (FEB 9, 2007)

(AAPL) Apple is down 0.5% on reports that Steve Jobs was involved in options backdating to a former director at the old Pixar.
(AES) AES reached a pact to sell its power assets in Venezuela back to Chavez regime for $740 million.
(ALU) Alcatel-Lucent job cuts will be 12,500 instead of the 20,000 that had been estimated.
(ANSV) Anesiva pesents data on pain drug, 4975, demonstrating pain reduction for up to two weeks after knee replacement surgeries
(BA) Boeing may win a $600 million Chinook helicopter pact in India.
(BMC) BMC Software $0.41 EPS vs $0.39e.
(BRCM) Broadcom traded up 1% after meeting estimates and $1 Billion share buyback.
(CDWC) CDW said January sales were up 11.9%.
(CSCO) Cisco announces agreement to acquire Five Across for undisclosed terms.
(CWTR) Coldwater Creek trading down 7% after guidance.
(DHT) Double Hull Tankers $0.30 EPS vs $0.31e.
(ENER) Energy Conversion Devices fell more than 10% after saying they will not meet the profitability forecast for 2007.
(FIG) Fortress Investment Group priced 34.286M shares at $18.50, at the top of the range for the IPO.
(FTEK) Fuel-Tech announces it was awarded multi-year Fuel-Chem order.
(HAS) Hasbro $0.74 EPS vs 0.67e.
(LI) Laidlaw International is being acquired by FirstGroup for $35.25, or about $3.6 Billion.
(MA) Mastercard indicated up 3% after beating earnings and raising its dividend.
(MDT) Medtronic begins new study of a pacemaker that is safe to use with MRI machines.
(PGL) Peoples Energy $0.82 EPS vs $0.80e.
(PNRA) Panera $0.62 EPS vs $0.63e; sees next quarter $0.47-0.50 vs $0.53e.
(PRTS) US Auto Parts priced its IPO of 10M shares at $10.00 per share.
(SDXC) Switch & Data IPO priced 11.7M shares at $17.00, above the IPO range.
(SFLY) Shutterfly traded up 15% after beating earnings.
(SIMG) Silicon Image down almost 15% after earnings.
(SIRF) SiRF Technology announces it files complaint in the ITC against Global Locate.
(SFUN) Saifun Semi announced 1.5M share buyback.
(TRMB) Trimble is using $5.00 cash and $2.50 in stock as part of the @Road consideration previously announced.
(WLDN) Willdan CEO is retiring.
(WOLF) Great Wolf Resorts raised guidance.
(ZQK) Quicksilver guided results lower.

Jon C. Ogg