TradingMarkets’ 10 Stocks You Need To Know About Today
Novell
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PowerRating) beat by a penny; quarterly profit, however, fell on
higher tax and restructuring costs.
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Hewlett Packard
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PowerRating) said it would
reserve an additional $4 billion for stock buybacks.
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Merck
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PowerRating) said it may settle some of
the 5,000 pending Vioxx related lawsuits.
Pixar
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PowerRating) is being investigated by
the SEC over heavy returns of the film “The Incredibles.” PIXR
cited the returns as the reason the company missed Q2 estimates.
Petco
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PowerRating) was in-line and guided lower. The company was
downgraded to neutral at JP Morgan.
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Cardiac Science
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PowerRating) received
permission to market its automatic public access defibrillators in Japan.
Omnivision
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PowerRating) missed by 0.02.
Business Week reports AtheroGenics
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PowerRating) may be a buyout candidate, according to John McCamant of the
Medical Technology Stock Letter.
Renovis
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PowerRating) said Phase III trials of Ren 1654 did not meet primary
endpoints and that it is discontinuing development.
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Seagate
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PowerRating) was downgraded to
equalweight at Morgan Stanley.
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