Champs & Chumps ..........Stock Market Winners & Losers

Monday, October 30, 2006

Stock Market Champs..........10-30-06

American Power Conversion Corp. (APCC)

Last Trade:29.88
Trade Time:12:13PM ET
Change:Up 6.12 (25.76%)

Shares of American Power Conversion jumped more than 26 percent before the bell on Monday after French electrical engineering company Schneider Electric said it had agreed to buy the U.S.-based electrical systems maker.

American Power shares rose to $30 in electronic trade, up from a Friday close of $23.76 on the Nasdaq.

Point Therapeutics Inc. (POTP)

Last Trade:1.47
Trade Time:12:15PM ET
Change:Up 0.22 (17.60%)

POTP shares jumped 22% to $1.53 in Monday morning trade after the Boston-based biopharmaceutical company said new data in an osteosarcoma model demonstrated that mice treated with talabostat, the company's lead product candidate, had a four-fold decrease in the number of primary tumors compared to saline treatment. In a separate experiment, the company said mice treated with talabostat had a 20-fold decrease in the number of metastatic lung nodules. The studies were presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer Development in Los Angeles.

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