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- TOP STORY: PEPSI BOTTLING CAPS THE S&P 500
  http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=405054

- NEWS TO GO: TERRA NETWORKS, DELL, AND COMCAST
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- HOT TOPICS: CELERA, STARBUCKS, AND GOOD INVESTORS
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PEPSI BOTTLING CAPS THE S&P 500
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) is the choice of the new S&P Generation.
Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE: PBG), the cola company's leading
bottler, will be joining its sugar-water daddy in the Standard &
Poor's 500 Index over the weekend. The move is fitting since
both Coke (NYSE: KO) and its largest distributor, Coca Cola
Enterprises (NYSE: CCE), are already on board.

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Terra firmer? Online giant Terra Networks (Nasdaq: TRLY)
reported a smaller-than-expected loss as cost-cutting helped
offset a sluggish advertising market. The Spanish standout,
whose buying spree eventually included the popular and then
profitable portal Lycos, saw revenues take a 6% dip. The company
also announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce. I'll
be back to scratch beneath this story's surface later this
morning.
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The Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) tolls, as the company announced that it
is cozy with first-quarter sales and earnings estimates but will
lay off some of its workers in the process. The company will let
go 3000 to 4000 employees -- as many as 10% of its workforce --
to offset falling demand and pricing pressures in the personal
computer space. Our own Mike Trigg (TMF Tonto) will take a
closer look at Dell's report later today.

Comcast's (Nasdaq: CMCSA) billion? The country's third-largest
cable television operator reported a cool billion-dollar
quarterly profit this morning -- but the 10-figure showing was
actually the result of large investment gains. Sales clocked in
13% higher, at $2.2 billion. Comcast is beginning to reap the
rewards of its costly buildout of digital broadband as
entertainment-starved consumers clamor for more cable channels
and faster Internet speeds.

In the beginning, Genesis Microchip (Nasdaq: GNSS) announced
earnings, and they were good. The company reported a 75% uptick
in revenue and a narrower-than-expected loss of $0.15 a share.
Catering to the flat-panel monitor market, which is anything but
flat nowadays, the integrated circuits maker also announced that
top-line growth would exceed projections over the next few
quarters.

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CELERA AT A CROSSROADS
"Over the course of the next 8 to 12 months Celera is going to
have to make some choices that will be very telling of what
shapes this company for the long term."
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HAS STARBUCKS "TWEENED"?
Now that McCafes are confronting Starbucks in the marketplace,
does this mean that the company has lost its status as a Rule
Breaker?
http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=405061

WHAT MAKES A GOOD INVESTOR?
Followers of Warren Buffett are forever examining the attributes
that give investors an edge over the S&P 500. So what makes a
winner?
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