Pre-Market Stock Notes (Nov. 27, 2006)

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(ACS) Affiliated Computer Systems announced its CEO & CFO had to leave over option impropriaties.
(AEZS) AEterna Zentaris announced positive Phase I results for AN-152 for patients with gynaecological and breast cancers.
(ASMI) AMS Int’l positive in barron’s.
(CNS) Cohen & Steers filed to sell 3.5M shares.
(ECIL) ECI Telecom may be in talks to be acquired by ADCT overseas.
(GOOG) Google reportedly reached copyright settlement in Belgium; noted cautiously in barron’s.
(MSFT) Microsoft is offering Vista already to many companies according to WSJ.
(PXLW) Pixelworks will be taking charges for restructuring.
(SCT) Scottish Re gets $600M investment in company from MassMutual and Cerberus.
(SNE) Sony trading lower on reports of many problems with PS3 units.
(SWFT) Swift has rejected the $29 buyout offer from Jerry Moyes as inadequate.
(TTIL) TTI Telecom CEO is stepping down.
(VRSN) SeriSign annoinced $52M acquisition of inCode Wireless.
(VTR) Ventas filed to sell $200M in convertible notes.
(WMT) Wal-Mart announced it sees s-s-s for NOV down -0.1%, first time of a negative in 10 years.
(XL) XL reported its CFO will retire in 2007.

by JON C. OGG

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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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