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Traders experienced a lack luster day in trading today, as we get off another new week in March. The deal between Merck and Schering-Plough got attention as well as, the deal with Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas. Merger Monday as it was once known, before the economic downturn began, quite some...

(GERN) - buy Obama will lift stem cell research funding ban on Monday. (STEM) - buy Obama will lift stem cell research funding ban on Monday. (CYTX) - buy Obama will lift stem cell research funding ban on Monday. (CUR) - buy Obama will lift stem cell research funding ban on Monday. (ASTM) -...

(COO) - buy Cooper, fiscal 1Q profit surges. Company earned $23.9 mln, or 53 cents per share, for the quarter ended Jan. 31, compared with net income of $6.9 mln, or 15 cents per share, during the same period a year prior. (ARST) - buy ArcSight, Q3 profit beats Street, sees strong Q4. Co issues...

(WTW) - buy Weight Watchers Q4 profit beats estimates. Co reported a fourth-quarter net income of $47.6 mln, or 62 cents per share, compared with $39.8 mln, or 50 cents per share, a year ago. (SIGM) - buy Sigma Designs profit tops estimates. Co Q4 adj EPS was $0.38 vs est $0.18. (PETM) - buy...

(GB) - buy Wilson Greatbatch beats by $0.13, beats on revs; guides FY09 revs in-line. (MASI) - buy Masimo Q4 results top estimates. Total revenue rose 20 percent to $83.1 million. (DEO) - short Diageo plc to cut 4% of North American workers - WSJ (PALM) - short Palm Inc warned of...

(ACL) - buy Alcon, Inc, the world’s leader in eye care and cataract surgery announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its aspheric AcrySof® IQ Toric intraocular lens (IOL). (SYKE) - short Sykes Enterprises 4Q profit drops 19 percent. Co issues downside guidance for Q1...

(WGOV) - short Woodward Governor cuts 2009 outlook. Co lowers FY09 EPS to $1.40-1.65, vs $1.75 First Call consensus. Co also lowers FY09 revs to $1.3 bln vs $1.46 bln First Call consensus. (HMC) - short Honda Motor Co, to cut output at home by over 150,000 units in the year from April, bringing...