Pre-Market Stock News (May 15, 2007)

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(AER) AerCap $0.71 EPS vs $0.50e; stock indicated up 4%.
(ARTC) Arthrocare received FDA clearance to treat malignant lesions within vertebrae in the spine.
(BSTE) Biosite said its offer from Inverness is superior and Beckman Coulter said it will not raise its offer beyond $90.00.
(BWLD) Buffalo Wild Wings positively noted by Cramer on mad Money as best conference call.
(CMG) Chipotle positively noted by Cramer on mad Money as best conference call.
(DCX) DaimlerChrysler $2.53 EPS; unsure if comparable to $0.99e; stock up 2%.
(DJ) Dow Jones’ Bancroft family is reportedly being offered a board seat or seats by Murdoch of News Corp.
(ESLT) Elbit Systems $0.45 EPS vs $0.43e.
(GLUU) Glu Mobile in EU distribution pact with Konami.
(HD) Home Depot $0.53 EPS & R$21.6B vs $0.59 & $21.8B estimates; stock indicated down 3%.
(HEM) HemoSense will supply LabCorp with its INRatio system.
(HTLD) Heartland Express will pay a $2.00 special dividend.
(HYGS) Hydrogenics gets order for hydrogen bus in Berlin.
(IGLD) Internet Gold $0.23 EPS vs $0.24e.
(OMRI) Omrix Biopharma received FDA approval for its Evicel sealant to be used in vascular suregy.
(RTRSY) Reuters has now reportedly backed the $17.2 Billion offer from Thomson.
(SGP) Schering-Plough noted posiutively by Cramer on Mad Money.
(TW) 21st Century Insurance is being acquired by AIG for $22.00 cash.
(TZIX) Trizetto Group CFO is leaving to Misys plc in London as CFO.
(WMT) Wal-Mart $0.68 EPS & R$85.387B versus estimates of $0.68 EPS and $87.08 Billion; guides Q2 to $0.75 to $0.79 EPS vs $0.79e; still sees 1-2% s-s-s growth in Q2; stock indicated flat to slightly lower.

Jon C. Ogg
May 15, 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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