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AAPL CREAF CHS MCDT CWTR
Durable Goods Orders
[Consensus]
 [Star] 8:30 ET 
New orders -0.2%
Jobless Claims
[Consensus]
 [Bullet] 8:30 ET 
315K
New Home Sales
[Report]
 [Bullet] 10:00 ET 
1,100,000
EIA Natural Gas Report
 [Bullet] 10:30 ET
TOP FINANCIAL NEWS
Bush administration considers 'next step' with Iran
Problem Slows Prudhoe Bay Oil Production
Cleared Quattrone could claim $100m
Scientists make key stem cell advance
BUSINESS NEWS
Apple AAPL settles with Creative CREAF
RITE AID IS
near a deal to purchase the Eckerd and Brooks drug chains from Canada's Jean Coutu for about $3.4 billion in cash and stock.
Trading Up
XETA
+16.4%; CWTR +9.8%; PVH +2.1%...
Trading Down
CHS
-17.4%; CNVR -7.7%; NDSN -5.7%... Companies moving in reaction to news:
 Trading Up
SWHC
+6.2% (files for a 15 mln share shelf offering); H +2.3% (Board of Directors authorizes stock repurchase program of up to 48 mln shares and reduces FY06 guidance)...
Trading Down
SIMC
-10.5% (Announces Need to Restate 2005 Results); PARL -4.6% (receives notice from Nasdaq due to late filing of Form 10-Q; co to request hearing with Nasdaq); ASYT -3.3% (disputes notice of default related to its convertible subordinated notes); ARTC -3.0% (responds to inquiry on stock options; co believes that there have been no unusual patterns).

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Big Pharma Gets a Booster Shot 
by Johanna Bennett

With low multiples, lucrative dividends and new drugs, Big Pharma and Pfizer in particular are looking like a big value.

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