Pre-Market Stock News (October 25, 2007)

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(AET) Aetna $0.97 EPS vs $0.91 est.
(ALGN) Align Technology traded down 20% after earnings beat but lower guidance.
(BDK) Black & Decker $1.59 EPS vs $1.44 est.
(BG) Bunge $2.70 EPS vs $1.80 est.
(BKHM) Bookham -$0.10 EPS vs -$0.11 est.
(BMY) Bristol-Myers Squibb $0.38 vs $0.37 est.
(CELG) Celgene 0.29 vs $0.28 est.; Revlimid sales deemed a tad light; stock down $5.00.
(CMI) Cummins $1.84 EPS vs $1.93 est.
(CMCSA) Comcast $0.18 EPS vs $0.18 est.; added 489K subscribers; says competitive environment may keep year numbers slightly impacted.
(DCO) Ducommon won a $25 million Dassault contract for winglets.
(DO) Diamond Offshore $1.48 EPs vs $1.49 est.
(DOW) Dow Chemical $0.84 EPS vs $0.91 est.
(EL) Estee Lauder $0.20 EPS vs $0.11 est.
(EMC) EMC R$3.3B vs $3.2B est.; raised stock buyback from $1B to $2B.
(EME) EMCOR $0.55 EPS vs $0.47 est.
(ENMD) EntreMed reports Phase I and preclinical efficacy results for ENMD-1198 showed significant survival advantage in lung cancer model.
(ESI) ITT Educational $0.98 EPS vs $0.92 est.
(FLIR) FLIR Systems $0.45 EPS vs $0.39 est.
(HLYS) Heelys traded down to new low after warning.
(ICE) IntercontinentalExchange $0.93 EPS vs $0.89 est.
(IMCL) Imclone down 2.7% on light revenues.
(KVA) KV Pharm announces FDA approval for Morphine ER 100 mg and 200 mg tablets.
(LLL) L-3 $1.56 EPS vs $1.48 est.
(MATR) Matria Healthcare $0.27 EPS vs $0.27 est.
(MBI) MBIA $1.52 EPS vs $1.59 est.; says insured credit portfolio will not result in material or detrimental losses.
(MOT) Motorola $0.06 EPS vs $0.04 est.; R$8.81B vs $8.81B est.; sees next quarter $0.12 to $0.14 EPS vs $0.10 est.
(MWV) MeadWestvaco $0.46 EPS vs $0.42 est.
(NAVZ) Navistar filed financials for 2003 to 2005.
(ODFL) Old Dominion $0.54 EPS vs $0.55 est.
(PCCC) PC Connection $0.28 EPS vs $0.23 est.
(POT) Potash $0.75 EPS vs $0.75 est.; reaffirmed targets.
(RAI) Reynolds American $1.21 EPS vs $1.21 est.
(RHD) RH Donnelley $0.25 EPS vs $0.31 est.
(RTN) Raytheon announced a $2 Billion share buyback plan.
(SNE) Sony trading up 1.5% after earnings in Japan.
(SSP) EW Scripps $0.50 EPS vs $0.41 est.
(SYMC) Symantec traded down 10% after earnings.
(TOC) Thomson $0.48 EPS vs $0.42 est.
(VIGN) Vignette $0.21 EPS vs $0.17 est.
(VMW) VMware trading up 6% after beating all estimates, but it did not issue guidance.
(XEL) Xcel Energy $0.57 EPS vs $0.57 est.

Jon C. Ogg
October 25, 2007

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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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