Pre-Market Stock News (October 4, 2007)

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(ABX) Barrick Gold noted positively by Cramer as his new gold stock.
(ANGO) AngioDynamics granted patent entitles “Endovascular Treatment Device Having a Fiber Tip Spacer” in U.S.
(ARM) Arvin Motor lowered guidance; stock down 5%.
(ATHN) athenahealth noted positively by Cramer in recent IPO’s; stock up 6%.
(BCSI) Blue Coat trades ex-split to reflect its 2-1 stock split.
(BEAS) BEA Systems stake of Icahn now at over 13%; shares up 1%.
(BIDU) Baidu.com shares indicated down about 1% on a Reuters report that Google is taking more Chinese search market share from its Sina.com (SINA) partnership.
(BSC) Bear Stearns holds semi-annual half-day investor meeting.
(C) Citigroup in talks with KKR about purchasing some of its leveraged loan portfolio off its books.
(CMP) Compass Minerals’ unit Great Salt Lakes Minerals is raising potash prices immediately.
(CWTR) Coldwater Creek CEO retiring.
(DIS) Disney opening an 800 room hotel and resort facility on western side of oahu in Hawaii.
(EBAY) eBay bought Afterbuy.de in German.
(FCN) FTI Consulting priced 4.2 million shares at $50.00.
(FDO) Family Dollar $0.26 EPS vs $0.25 est.
(HMY) Harmony Gold has recued roughly half of its 3000+ trapped miners in an African mine.
(ISCA) International Speedway missed earnings and guided lower; shares indicated down 2%.
(JCI) Johnson Controls trades ex-split to reflect a 3-1 split.
(MAR) Marriott $0.31 EPS vs $0.32 est.
(NTRI) NutriSystem lowered guidance; stock fell to new 52-week lows after hours.
(QCOM) Qualcomm tried to explain to a court why it did not turn over 300,000 pages of documents that had been requested, according to WSJ.
(S) Sprint Nextel has an activist Ralph Whitworth threatening proxy fight for a board seat.
(SIRI) Sirius said the Justice Department is asking for more information on the XM-Sirius merger.
(TRMS) Trimeris halted its supplemental application on its Biojector product.
(WTSLA) Wet Seal stock down 14% on guidance.

Jon C. Ogg
October 4, 2007

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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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