Pre-Market Stock News (August 6, 2007)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

(ABS) ACCO Brands $0.21 EPS vs $0.14 est.
(ACA) ACA Capital noted as one that could endure or implode by Barron’s.
(BSC) Bear Stearns’ Co-President Warren Spector has resigned.
(DPHIQ) Delphi reached tentative labor pact with key union group.
(DRAD) Digirad $0.01 EPS vs -$0.02 est.
(ECTX) ECTel -$0.11 EPS vs -$0.11 est.
(FFIV) F5 Networks is paying roughly $200M to acquire Acopia Networks.
(FTEK) Fuel Tech $0.01 EPS vs $0.06 est; lowered revenue range from $80-95M down to $80-85M.
(HAIN) Hain Celestial is acquiring TenderCare.
(JNY) Jones Apparel received higher offer of $950 million for barney’s.
(LULU) Lululemon athletica could be the next Under Armour according to Cramer.
(NAPS) Napster is preloading its digital music service on new Hewlett-Packard notebook and desktop PC’s in Germany and the U.K.
(NWN) NW Nat Gas $0.10 EPS vs $0.08 est.
(ORBK) Orbotech $0.18 EPS vs $0.18 est.
(SNTS) Santarus lowered guidance.
(TRAD) Tradestation reported 32% gain year/year DARTs.
(WMT) Wal-Mart established joint venture in India with Bharti Enterprise.
(WTR) Aqua America $0.18 EPS vs $0.18 est.

Former Home Depot head Bob Nardelli has been tapped to run Chrysler LLC by Cerberus.

Jon C. Ogg
August 6, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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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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