Pre-Market Stock News (APR 19, 2007)

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(AAPL) Apple’s iPhone is not being delayed according to AT&T (Cingular).
(ALTH) Allos Therapeutics’s PDX Granted Orphan Medicinal Product Designation by the European Commission.
(AME) Ametek $0.48 EPS vs $0.46e.
(ARB) Arbitron $0.52 EPS vs $0.50e.
(BAC) Bank of America $1.17 EPS vs $1.15e.
(BAX) Baxter $0.61 EPS vs $0.55e.
(BBT) BB&T $0.81 EPS vs $0.77e.
(BOT) CBOT $1.29 EPS vs $1.16e.
(BWA) Borg Warner noted positively by Cramer for green investing.
(DGX) Quest Diagnostics $0.79 EPS vs $0.69e.
(DHI) $0.16 EPS vs $0.27e; $0.32 EPS was raw number.
(DHR) Danaher $0.78 EPS vs $0.77e.
(EBAY) eBay traded up 5% after beating earnings.
(EBS) Emergent Biosolutions announces that HHS and DoD issued notices of intent to procure up to a combined 22.75 mln doses of BioThrax.
(FCBP) First Community Bancorp $0.98 EPS vs $0.86e.
(GERN) Geron says Studies Confirm Proof-of-Principle for it’s Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Hepatocytes.
(GILD) Gilead traded up to new year highs in after-hours trading after beating earnings expectations.
(HSY) Hershey Foods $0.51 EPS vs $0.51e.
(HYGS) Hydrogenics signed multiple HyPM Fuel Cell orders.
(KVHI) KVH Industries $0.00 EPS vs $0.02e.
(LOGI) Logitech $0.29 EPS vs $0.30e.
(MER) Merrill Lynch $2.26 EPS vs $1.97e.
(MO) Altria $1.03 EPS vs $1.05e.
(MSFT) Microsoft in license pact with Samsung.
(MRK) Merck $0.84 EPS vs $0.84e; guides next Q $0.67 to $0.71 EPS vs $0.69e.
(NRMX) Neurochem says database for North American Phase III clinical trial for tramiprosate for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has been locked up.
(ORB) Orbital Sciences $0.19 EPS vs $0.19e; guidance looks in-line to slightly above prior range.
(PTMK) Pathmark Stores $0.03 EPS vs -$0.03e.
(SPNC) Spectranetics $0.00 EPS vs -$0.01e.
(STJ) St. Jude Medical is selling $1B in convertible notes.
(TER) Teradyne trading up over 2% after earnings.
(UNH) UnitedHealth $0.74 EPS vs $0.71e.
(VICL) Vical is expanding testing of its Vaxfectin adjuvant to U.S. Navy malaria vaccine program.
(WYE) Wyeth $0.94 EPS vs $0.88e.
(YHOO) Yahoo!’s CEO Terry Semel noted as #1 CEO who needs to go by Cramer.

Jon C. Ogg
April 19, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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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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