Pre-Market Stock News (August 9, 2007)

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(AEO) American Eagle Outfitters s-s-s were -6% vs +4% est.
(AIG) AIG $1.64 EPS vs $1.61 est.; says comfortable with US mortgage market.
(ATPG) ATP Oil & Gas $0.39 EPS vs $0.05 est.; unsure if comparable.
(BBY) Best Buy reaffirmed fiscal guidance ahead of analyst meeting.
(BCRX) Biocryst -$0.24 EPS vs -$0.33 est.
(BIG) Big Lots s-s-s +5.2% vs $3.5% est.
(CHS) Chico’s FAS s-s-s -6.7% vs. -5% est.; sees revenues under plan.
(CLMS) Calamos Asset Mgmt. assets under management were $43.4 Billion; down from $43.8 B last month and down from $44.2 B last year.
(COST) Costco s-s-s +7% vs 5.5% est.
(CPB) Campbell Soup exploring alternatives for its Godiva Chocolate unit.
(CYPB) Cypress Bio $0.06 EPS vs $0.10 est.
(EAT) Brinker $0.57 EPS vs $0.49 est.
(ENN) Equity Inns $0.50 EPS vs $0.44 est.
(ENS) Enersys $0.30 EPS vs $0.26 est.
(ESPD) eSpeed $0.01 EPS vs $0.00 est.
(EXPE) Expedia did receive its full 25 million shares in a lowered share count dutch tender at $29.00 per share.
(GILT) Gilat Satellite $0.14 EPS vs $0.12 est.
(GLBC) Global Crossing $547 million revenues vs. $545M est; sees revenues in-line with 2007 targets.
(GPS) Gap Inc. s-s-s -7% vs -4.9% est.
(HOC) Holly Corp. $2.84 EPS vs $2.43 est.
(JCP) JCPenney s-s-s +10.8% vs +9.9% est.
(M) Macy’s s-s-s -1.4% vs -2% est.
(MIC) MacQuarie Infrastructure posted losses after items but was supposed to have gains; shares down 2%.
(NAT) Nordic American Tanker $0.78 EPS vs $0.67 est.
(PSUN) Pacific Sunwear s-s-s -4.6% vs +3% est.
(RMIX) US Concrete$0.18 EPS vs. $0.18 est.; guided in-line for Q3 and fiscal 2007.
(SPPI) Spectrum Pharma investigational new drug application accepted by FDA over its carcinoma treatment candidate.
(STP) Suntech Power $0.25 EPS vs $0.23 est.
(SUG) Southern Union $0.39 EPS vs $0.31 est.
(TLB) Talbots preliminary results were under plan and sees $0.00 EPS vs $0.02 est.
(URBN) Urban Outfitters $0.19 EPS vs $0.19 est.
(URRE) Urnaium Resources $0.02 EPS and $8 million revenues; no estimates.
(VFC) VF Corp noted positive by Cramer on MAD MONEY.
(VG) Vonage -$0.12 before charges and -$0.22 net EPS vs -$0.34 est.; subscribers added only 57,000 to 2.45 million.
(VIAC) Viacell -$0.09 EPS vs -$0.13 est.
(VTR) Ventas $0.70 EPS vs $0.66 est.
(WMT) Wal-Mart s-s-s +1.9% vs +1.5% est.
(WON) Westwood One $0.08 EPPS vs $0.07 est.
(WTSLA) Wet Seal s-s-s -1.7% vs. -5% est.
(ZLC) Zales $488M revenues vs. $481M est.

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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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