Market Update Close: After languishing throughout the week, the market finally reclaimed some of the upside momentum that helped lift the major indices an average of 4.9% over the last three weeks, lending credence to Briefing.com's belief that a traditional year-end rally will close the S&P 500 up 5% for the year. The market opened on a positive note amid a good underlying tone for stocks, supported in part by 75% of the S&P 500 either surpassing or matching analysts' forecasts to register a 14th straight quarter of double-digit profit growth, but got an extra boost late in the day as oil...
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1:42 pm PT Autodesk beats by $0.01, ex-items; guides Q4, Y06 and Y07 in-line (ADSK) 47.10 :Reports Q3 (Oct) earnings of $0.31 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.01 better than the Reuters Estimates consensus of $0.30; revenues rose 26.0% year/year to $378.3 mln vs the $376.4 mln consensus. ADSK reports license revs $304.4 mln vs $310 mln street expectation. Co issues in-line guidance for Q4, sees EPS of $0.34-0.36 vs. $0.36 consensus; sees Q4 revs of $405-415 mln vs. $411.14 mln consensus. Co issues in-line guidance for FY06, sees EPS of $1.24-1.26 vs. $1.25 consensus; sees FY06 revs of $1.5-1.52 bln vs. 1.51 bln consensus. Co issues in-line guidance for FY07, sees EPS of $1.41-1.45 vs. $1.45 consensus.
1:35 pm PT American Ecology Corp. announces New Jersey cleanup project delay extended (ECOL) 15.46 +0.49:Co announced that on November 16, 2005, Honeywell International notified the Company that it had filed a brief with the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey seeking approval to have waste shipments from the main excavation phase for the Jersey City chromite ore processing residues removal project start in the March 2006 timeframe. Honeywell indicated the additional time is required for completion and curing of a subsurface barrier wall that will surround the site and subsequent dewatering of the material that is necessary prior to excavation. Honeywell also said that it is applying all reasonable efforts to accelerate this schedule.
1:34 pm PT Gilead Sciences announces preliminary 24-Week data evaluating the impact of switching from twice-daily Combivir to once-daily Truvada (GILD) 54.75 -0.88: -Update- Co announced the presentation of preliminary 24-week data from the COMET study at the 10th European AIDS Conference. Data suggest that in HIV-infected treatment-experienced patients who switched from twice-daily Combivir to once-daily Truvada, both in combination with efavirenz, the percentage of patients that achieved virologic suppression below 50 copies/mL was significantly higher at week 24 compared to baseline. Hemoglobin levels also increased significantly from baseline. Data will be presented by study investigator Peter Ruane, MD of Lifesource Medical Inc. in Los Angeles, California.
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