MAJOR PAPERS:

• "The behavior in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects to what we saw in 1998, what we saw in the stock market crash of 1987, I suspect what we saw in the land boom collapse of 1837 and certainly [the bank panic] 1907," said Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, reported the Wall Street Journal.
• In an attempt to reverse slow North American sales of Gatorade, PepsiCo Inc (NYSE: PEP) is launching a low calorie version, reported the Wall Street Journal.

• British arms manufacturer BAE Systems (OTC: BAESY) will reportedly receive a GBP20B deal next week to supply 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia, reported the U.K. Times.
• British telecom company Vodafone Group (NYSE: VOD) is considering buying the Italian and Spanish operations of Swedish telecom company Tele2, reported the Guardian.
• From BusinessWeek's "Inside Wall Street" column:
  
• NYSE Euronext Inc (NYSE: NYX) runs cash equity exchanges in five countries and six derivative markets worldwide, and Birkelbach Investment Securities feels the stock is "very undervalued."
• The outlook for Access Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ACCP) and ProLindac has vastly improved, said Steven Rouhandeh, CEO of SCO Financial Group, which owns a 30% stake in the company.
• NeoStem Inc (NYSE: NBS) is a tiny company that specializes in collecting, processing, and storing stem cells from healthy adults for their personal medical use, and Equity Dynamics is positive on the company's technology.

Newspaper wrap-up: Pepsi (PEP) to launch diet Gatorade originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

MAJOR PAPERS:

• Highlights from today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required):
• Dell Inc (NASDAQ: DELL) has been accused in an investor lawsuit of improper accounting in its partnership with Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC).
• News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS) MySpace is looking to forge partnerships to enter the Chinese market.

• The U.K. Times reported that Rio Tinto plc (NYSE: RTP) has warned that the future of its only operation in the U.K. is bleak, with negotiations on its future having failed to deliver a solution.
• The Washington Post said, according to a National Intelligence report, that the situation in Iraq will get worse and the United States has little control over it.
• Investor's Business Daily's "New America" column mentioned Heelys (NASDAQ: HLYS) positively, saying there is plenty of room for growth in the wheeled sneaker market, although cautioning it could be a fad like rollerblades or the Razr scooter before it.
  
• From BusinessWeek's "Inside Wall Street" column:
• Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) named Debra Cafaro, a well-regarded REIT executive, to its board, sending a "clear signal that Weyerhaeuser will be looking at moving its huge timberlands into a REIT," says Mark Wilde of Deutsche Bank.
  
• Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) should rise to $6 a share this year, says Carl Birkelbach, president of Birkelbach Investment Securities
  
• Access Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: ACCP) two cancer drugs -- one of which, MuGard, has already been O.K.'d by the Food & Drug Administration -- are catching the eye of investors.

Newspaper wrap-up 2-2-07: MySpace looking for partners in China originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.