Pre-Market Stock News (APR 20, 2007)

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(AH) Armor Holdings won $41.7 million in armor orders from the Army.
(AMD) AMD trading up 2.5% despite crummy earnings and sinking margins.
(AVNR) Avanir trading up another 12% pre-market.
(BUD) Anheueser-Busch lost the international “Budweiser” copyright fight to Budvar in Czech Republic over the name.
(CAT) Caterpillar beat earnings and raised guidance.
(CECO) Career Education said the DOJ is declining prosecution and has closed a grand jury investigation.
(COF) Capital One traded down 3% after missing earnings.
(DOX) Amdocs signed a managed services pact with AT&T.
(DPTR) Delta Petroleum priced a 6.2 million share secondary at $20.50.
(FTEK) Fuel Tech won two more orders of Fuel Chem.
(GOOG) Google traded up 4% after beating earnings expectations last night.
(HON) Honeywell $0.66 EPS vs $0.62e.
(HRB) H&R Block sold off its Option One Mortgage unit.
(MCD) McDonald’s met expectations, but that is after they raised guidance last week; will franchise 1600 stores in Latin America and the Caribbean.
(NSTK) Nastech Pharma traded up 5% after Cramer interviewed its CEO.
(PFE) Pfizer $0.68 EPS vs $0.57e, but guidance was lowered; stock down 1%.
(SIRF) SiRF Technology trading down 7% after seeing lower than expected EPS in Q2.
(SLB) Schlumberger $0.96 EPS vs $0.90e.
(SUPG) Supergen sold off some non-core assets to Intas.
(TPGI) Thomas Properties priced 8 million shares at $16.00 per share.
(XRX) Xerox $0.24 EPS vs $0.21e.

Jon C. Ogg
April 20, 2007

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

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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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