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Earnings results and economic reports - Week 42.

13%

Monday:
Economic: NA
Earnings: Fastenal (FAST), XL Cap (XL)

Tuesday:
Economic: NA
Earnings: J&J (JNJ), Pepsi (PEP), Supervalu (SVU), WW Grainger (GWW), Altera (ALTR), CSX (CSX), Genentech (DNA), Intel (INTC), USANA (USNA)

Wednesday:
Economic: Weekly Crude,
Earnings: BlackRock (BLK), C Schwab (SCHW), Coke (KO), Delta (DAL), JP Morgan (JPM), St Jude (STJ), Wells Fargo (WFC), Badger (BMI), eBay (EBAY), Novellus (NVLS), Landstar (LSTR), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Xilinx (XLNX)

Thursday:
Economic: Weekly Claims, Wholesale Invs (0.4%)
Earnings: Bank of NY (BK), BB&T (BBT), Citigroup (C), CIT Group (CIT), Contin...

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By Vlada Kynsky (-59.75% risk: moderate) 10/12/08

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Zacks #1 Rank Additions for Friday

28%

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Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)
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By StraightStocks (-27.25% risk: conservative) 08/08/08

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USANA Health Sciences and Minkow settle lawsuit - a sad day for free speech

Filed under: Law, Scandals

Shares of USANA Health Sciences (NASDAQ: USNA) rose more than 7% on Monday and is up again today after the company announced that it had settled its lawsuit against Barry Minkow and his Fraud Discovery Institute, which had accused them of making false allegations about the company and working in concert with others to manipulate its stock and profit from downward movement.

In the press release, the company announced that "USANA has agreed to withdraw its lawsuit and Mr. Minkow and the FDI have agreed that they will not trade in USANA's stock in the future, will remo

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By Zac Bissonnette (+14.22% risk: moderate) 07/29/08

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Usana founder pulls offer to take company private

Filed under: Deals, Management

Myron Wentz, the founder and chairman of Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ: USNA) has elected not to pursue his previously announced tender offer to acquire the company at $28 per share.

In a press release announcing the move, Wentz's group explained that "After further reviewing the results of the offer and receiving additional feedback from shareholders, it became clear that the purchaser would not receive tenders of a sufficient number of shares to satisfy the non-waivable condition to the offer that the purchaser own at least 90% of the outstanding shares follow...

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By Zac Bissonnette (+14.22% risk: moderate) 07/16/08

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Usana rejects founder's going private offer

Filed under: Deals

Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ: USNA) announced yesterday (subscription required) that the Special Committee of its Board of Directors had unanimously determined that founder, chairman, and CEO Myron Wentz's offer to take the company private at $26 per share undervalued the company, and recommended that shareholders reject it. Mr. Wentz declined to sweeten the offer, and so the deal appears to be dead in the water.

Here's where it gets kind of interesting: back in 2002, Wentz made an offer to take Usana private but then rescinded it, saying that "To allow our shareholders to

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By Zac Bissonnette (+14.22% risk: moderate) 06/21/08

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averagejoe1 (+0.00%)

MediaSentiment Alerts: USNA - three thumbs down - Media Sentiment alerts on 10/14/08 at 4:20pm est, Thumbs Down at $42.01. the stop limits were indicated as: Conservative: Up(gain): $40.53 Down(loss...

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Media Sentiment: Earnings News Alerts - Media Sentiment gives a three thumbs down to USNA. Watch the stock on Wednesday Oct 15'08. Get your free real time alerts at: www.MediaSentiment.co

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