Pre-Market Stock News (June 4, 2007)

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(ANSW) Answers may be an indicated Internet takeover target according to “TheDeal.Com”; shares trading up 2.2%.
(CBI) Chicago Bridge & Iron won a $775M LNG pact in Chile.
(CELG) Celgene up 2% on positive multiple myeloma study data presented at ASCO.
(CRAY) Cray trading down over 15% on lowered guidance.
(CSIQ) Canadian Solar Inc. trading up 2.5% on partnership with City Solar AG on large solar projects in Spain and Germany.
(DIGE) Digene up 34% after being acquired by QIAGEN (QGEN).
(DNA) Genentech trading down 0.5% after ASCO data presentation.
(DNDN) Dendreon shares trading down 5% after it announced a $75 million convertible note offering in a private placement.
(EMU) Energy Metals Corp. is being acquired for some $1.5 billion by SXR Uranium.
(GE) General Electric noted as potentially going to $50.00 according to Barron’s.
(HTV) Hearst-Argyle TV reached a select content pact with Google’s YouTube.
(MEH) Midwest Air holders received a recommendation from Glass Lewis to not vote for Midwest Air nominees and instead vote in favor of the Airtran nominees.
(NVT) Navteq noted as potential Microsoft or Google buyout target, but he said this is pure speculation rather than news or even rumors. 
(ONXX) Onyx Pharma trading up over 5% on ASCO data showing that liver cancer patients survived 3 months longer on Nexxvar.
(PALM) Palm is selling a 25% stake to Elevation Partners for $325 million; shareholders receive a $940 million distribution; shares up 11%.
(SCHL) Scholastic is using $200 million for an accelerated share buyback via Deutsche Bank.
(SLR) Solectron trading up 16% on news that it is merging with Flextronics (FLEX) in either cash ($3.89) or stock (0.345 FLEX shares).
(SNE) Sony announced price cuts on their new Blu-ray DVD players.
(WMT) Wal-Mart trading up 1.5% on 4 upgrades after Friday data at shareholder meeting.

Jon C. Ogg
June 4, 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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