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To: DebtBomb who wrote (49453)	4/16/2002 1:32:40 PM
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DJ Hot Stocks: MANT SPIR BY SDS ISSX PVN CBT MANTECH INTERNATIONAL (MANT) Legg Mason cut its rating on the company's stock to buy from strong buy. Price: $21.15 Net Change: -$1.24 % Change: 5.54% Loss Volume: 141,800 Shares ... ... ... SPIRE CORP (SPIR) Received approval from the FDA for its Pourchez XpressO hemodialysis catheter. Price: $4.45 Net Change: $0.90 % Change: 25.35% Gain Volume: 32,300 Shares ... ... ... BWAY CORP (BY) A director of the company sold 5,000 shares. Price: $13.69 Net Change: -$1.81 % Change: 11.68% Loss Volume: 29,000 Shares ... ... ... SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS (SDS) Shares dropped after a CSFB analyst issued cautious comments about the company. Price: $29.45 Net Change: -$2.29 % Change: 7.21% Loss Volume: 4.4M Shares ... ... ... INTERNET SECURITY SYSTEMS (ISSX) Insiders sold a total of 168,120 shares, including 67,800 sold by the company's Chairman, Thomas Noonan. Price: $21.60 Net Change: -$1.55 % Change: 6.70% Loss Volume: 2.6M Shares ... ... ... PROVIDIAN FINANCIAL (PVN) Agreed to sell $2.6 billion of high-risk credit-card receivables. Legg Mason raised its rating on the stock to market perform from underperform. Price: $7.88 Net Change: $0.38 % Change: 5.07% Gain Volume: 2.1M Shares ... ... ... CABOT CORP (CBT) JP Morgan cut its rating on the company's stock to market performer from buy. Additionally, the company said it's suing Kemet Corp. (KEM) regarding its supply agreement for tantalum powder, ore and wire. Price: $32.05 Net Change: -$1.60 % Change: 4.75% Loss Volume: 376,500 Shares ... ... ... - - Below are previously published hot stocks with updated price and volume data - - FLEETBOSTON FINANCIAL (FBF) Hopes to sell its Robertson Stephens investment-banking arm by year's end. Said it will continue to pare back investments in its principal equity portfolio. Reported a first-quarter profit of 70 cents a share, which met the average analyst estimate. Prudential Securities boosted its rating to hold from sell. Price: $35.92 Net Change: $2.44 % Change: 7.29% Gain Volume: 4.6M Shares ... ... ... GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) Its financial-services unit, GE Capital, will lay off 7,000 employees this year. Stressed its commitment to maintaining a triple-A rating and to supporting its bonds in the secondary market. Price: $33.03 Net Change: $1.18 % Change: 3.70% Gain Volume: 21.7M Shares ... ... ... TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (TXN) Swung to a first-quarter loss on a 27% drop in sales from a year earlier, but beat the average analyst estimate and won praise for its strong second-quarter forecast. CFO Bill Aylesworth said the semiconductor business is in the midst of "a very promising recovery." Price: $33.80 Net Change: $1.67 % Change: 5.20% Gain Volume: 10.5M Shares ... ... ... PAYPAL INC (PYPL) Online auctioneer eBay held talks last week to buy online-payment firm PayPal, financial-news network CNBC reported late Monday. The firms are already closely linked, with many eBay customers using PayPal to process payments. At Monday's close, PayPal's stock had risen 77% from its Feb. 15 initial public offering, generating a market capitalization of about $1.4 billion. Price: $24.33 Net Change: $1.31 % Change: 5.69% Gain Volume: 1.8M Shares EBAY INC (EBAY) Price: $55.34 Net Change: $0.05 % Change: .09% Gain Volume: 3.4M Shares ... ... ... HANDSPRING INC (HAND) Reported a third-quarter pro forma loss of 14 cents a share, missing the average analyst estimate by 2 cents. Doesn't expect a profit until the December quarter and indicated that its transition to more advanced products isn't going as smoothly as planned. Price: $2.95 Net Change: -$0.77 % Change: 20.73% Loss Volume: 6.2M Shares ... ... ... NTELOS INC (NTLD) Its recapitalization plan, approved by an unofficial committee of its public bondholders, would convert $10.6 billion of debt into equity. Price: $0.18 Net Change: $0.09 % Change: 91.49% Gain Volume: 13.9M Shares ... ... ... RF MICRO DEVICES (RFMD) W.R. Hambrecht started coverage at a buy rating and $28 price target. Price: $20.16 Net Change: $1.42 % Change: 7.57% Gain Volume: 6.1M Shares (MORE) DOW JONES NEWS 04-16-02