Pre-Market Stock News (MAR 29, 2007)

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(ALTR) Altera announced a $0.04 dividend a 50 million share buyback plan.
(ALV) Autoliv names new President/CEO.
(ANGO) Angiodynamics fell 20% after losing a jury verdict to Diomed.
(ATMI) ATMI Inc. lowered guidance.
(BA) Boeing gets a 47 plane order for 737 from American Airlines.
(BCE) BCE may get a bid of just under $26 Billion from private equity firm KKR.
(CAG) ConAgra could be ripe for a break-up to Cramer.
(CEO) CNOOC said its annual income rose 22%.
(CLAY) Clayton Homes announces that it has agreed to acquire Euro Risk Management, a credit and risk consultancy operating in the United Kingdom, Italy and Holland.
(CLDA) Clinical Data in co-marketing pact with Roche relating to Cogenics division acquisition of 454 GS FLX sequencing system.
(CLS) Celestica named new interim CFO.
(CLX) Clorox could be ripe for a break-up to Cramer.

(CMRG) Casual Male $0.20 EPS vs $0.20e; thin coverage.
(CONN) Conn’s $0.52 EPS vs $0.45e; guides 2007 in-line.
(COST) CostCo CEO noted positively by Cramer.
(CRGN) CuraGen announces definitive agreement to sell 454 Life Sciences to Roche.
(DNDN) Dendreon has FDA panel review for Provenge today; shares likely halted all day until after panel decision.
(EMIS) Emisphere Tech says its study showed that orally-delivered GLP-1 is able to stimulate insulin release.
(FDO) Family Dollar $0.60 EPS vs $0.60 estimate.
(GSAT) Globalstar revenues fell 19% and posted a $0.01 loss.
(GSIT) GSI Technologies priced its IPO at $5.50, under the $6.50 to $8.00 range.
(HEPH) Hollis-Eden Pharma announced the filing of its IND for Phase Iclinical trial with next-generation drug candidate HE3286 in metabolicdisorder.
(IBM) IBM expected to win $1.6 Billion order in India.
(IMAX) Imax delayed its annual report again.
(ISLN) Isilon signed an OEM pact with Schlumberger to optimize Isilon’sclustered storage with the SLB portfolio of exploration software.
(KSS) Kohl’s CEO noted positively by Cramer.
(NBR) Nabors Industries puts EPS guidance at $0.80 to $0.85 versus $1.00 estimates.
(PAYX) Paychex fell 1% after $0.33 EPS vs $0.35e.
(PTIE) Pain Therapeutics announced a $20 million allocation for a share buyback plan.
(RECN) Resource Connection trading down 5% after earnings.
(RFMD) RF Micro down 11% after reaffirming this quarter but lowering next quarter guidance.
(SDXC) Switch & Data posted -$0.05 & $29.3 million revenues.
(SENO) SenoRx priced its 5.5 million share IPO at $8.00, under therange of $9.00 to $10.00 (already reduced from $11.00 to $13.00).
(SONC) Sonic posted $0.16 EPS before items versus $0.14 estimate.
(TBL) Timberland names John Crimmins as CFO.
(TBUS) Digital Recorders -$0.21 EPS.
(TJX) TJX Co said that the total credit cards stolen over 18 months was45.7 million cards after first revealing the theft in prior months.
(WAVE) NextWave Wireless raised $355 million in new capital.
(WSH) Willis Group announced a $400 million accelerated share buyback.

Jon C. Ogg
March 29, 2007

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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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