Pre-Market Stock News (July 17, 2007)

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(ADTN) Adtran $0.28 EPS versus $0.28 estimate.
(AIZ) Assurant CEO and CFO received SEC WELLS NOTICE.
(ASD) American Standard noted as a positive ahead of split-up by Cramer on MAD MONEY.
(CVO) Cenveo is acquiring Commercial Envelope.
(DJ) Dow Jones has reportedly reached some terms with News Corp. over the merger according to WSJ reports; actual status varies from source to source so consider this still an outstanding issue until formal statements are made from one or both companies.
(ELS) Equity Lifestyle $0.59 EPS vs $0.58 estimate.
(ENCY) Encysive retained Morgan Stanley to assist in strategic review.
(FCFS) First Cash Financial $0.27 EPS vs $0.26 estimate.
(JNJ) J&J $1.05 EPS vs $1.00 estimate.
(KEY) KeyCorp $0.86 EPS vs $0.70e; raised guidance as well, but unsure if comparable.
(KO) Coca-Cola $0.85 EPS vs. $0.82 estimate.
(LYO) Lyondell is being acquired by Basell for $48.00 per share.
(MDT) Medtronic received approval for artificial disc for the neck.
(MER) Merrill Lynch $2.24 EPS vs $2.02 estimate.
(NLS) Nautilus traded down 12% after earnings.
(PHTN) Photon Dynamics sees results under plan for Q3.
(PHG) Philips Electronics noted positively as European play by Cramer on MAD MONEY.
(RF) Regions Financial $0.69 EPS vs $0.69 estimate.
(STT) State Street $1.07 EPS vs $1.01 estimate.
(WFC) Wells Fargo unveiled a money transfer program.
(WGOV) Woodward Governor noted positively by Cramer on MAD MONEY.
(XLNX) Xilinx’s Spartan-3E and MicroBlaze soft processor selected for Samsung Electronics’ latest digital video surveillance system.

Jon C. Ogg
July 17, 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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