Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Halliburton, MedQuist, Motorola and Ruby Tuesday: U.S. Equity Preview

(Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies
whose shares may have unusual price changes in U.S. exchanges
today. This preview includes news that broke after exchanges
closed yesterday. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company
names.

Abbott Laboratories (ABT US) lost $2.01, or 3.8 percent, to
$51.20 in trading yesterday after the close of U.S. exchanges.
The drugmaker and General Electric Co. have broken off an
agreement to sell Abbott's core laboratory and point-of-care
diagnostics businesses to GE. The decision has no impact on
Abbott's forecast earnings, excluding items, for 2007 and 2008,
the company said in a statement.


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