Monday, June 18, 2007

Actelion, Alcoa, Genesco, Encysive, Labopharm, Lexicon: U.S. Equity Movers

(Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies
whose shares are having unusual price changes on U.S. exchanges
tomorrow. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names.
Shares prices are as of 9:30 a.m. New York time.

Actelion Ltd. (ALIOF US) shares rose $3.74, or 8.8 percent,
to $46.45. A newly approved rival to its best-selling Tracleer
lung treatment may not be as big a threat as previously thought,
some analysts said. Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD US) on June 15 won
U.S. approval for ambrisentan, which will compete with Tracleer
as a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension, a narrowing
of the arteries that causes shortness of breath and heart
failure. Gilead gained 5 cents to $80.88.


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