Pre-Market Stock News (APR 30, 2007)

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(ARLP) Alliance Resource $1.03 EPS vs $0.93e.
(ASTM) Aastrom Biosciences initiates adult stem cell clinical trial for Peripheral Arterial Disease.
(BCE) BCE says it will finish its strategic review for a targeted Q3 date.
(BEAV) BE Aerospace $0.40 EPS vs $0.32e.
(CGEN) Compugen names new CFO.
(D) Dominion agreed to sell its offshore natural gas and oil exploration & production to ENI Petroleum for roughly $4.76 Billion.
(DVA) DaVita $0.72 EPS vs $0.72e.
(HERO) Hercules $1.03 EPS vs $0.85e.
(HUM) Humana $0.42 EPS vs $0.40e.
(IOTN) Ionatron named as largest speculative play by Cramer.
(ISE) International Securities Exchange trading up 30+% at more than $60.00 after reports that Deutsche Boerse is considering a $2.6 Billion bid for the exchange at $68.00 per share.
(ISV) Insite Vision announces FDA approval for AzaSite; which triggers $19 million milestone payment.
(MDH) MHI Hospitality entered into a real estate joint venture with private equity giant Carlyle Group.
(MER) Merrill Lynch announced a $6 Billion share buyback plan.
(NOVN) Noven Pharma $0.20 EPS vs $0.18e.
(NPTH) Enpath Medical is being acquired by Wilson Greatbatch for $14.38.
(NTE) Nam Tai Electronics $0.19 EPS vs $0.22e.
(PENN) Penn National Gaming was named as the final takeover candidate for private equity by Jim Cramer.
(RSH) RadioShack $0.29 EPS vs $0.14e.
(SGMO) Sangamo BioSci announced research and license agreement with Genentech for ZFP technology for protein pharmaceutical production.
(SYY) Sysco Foods $0.35 EPS vs $0.36e.
(YHOO) Yahoo! is acquiring an online ad exchange firm called Right Media for $680 million; YHOO already held 20% stake.
(VZ) $0.54 EPS vs $0.53e (although company says operating number $0.56); Revenues $22.58 Billion vs $22.5B(e).
(ZBRA) Zebra Tech $0.39 EPS vs $0.36e.

Jon C. Ogg
April 30, 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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