Agilent ACQUIRES AT4 Wireless and 3 Hot Morning Stocks to Notice

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Agilent (NYSE:A) acquires the wireless test systems business of Spain’s AT4 Wireless in a bid to bolster its own product line with AT4′s NFC, RFID and Bluetooth testing hardware; the acquisition will add 130 employees in Spain and comes after Agilent’s $2.2 billion acquisition of Dako, a life sciences testing firm.

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Morgan Stanley’s Nigel Coe takes an incisive look at General Electric’s (NYSE:GE) aura of being poised cyclically to leverage an improving economy, and says that the manufacturing and financial units, if looked at separately, are actually trading at substantial premiums to comps., which could unwind in the presence of some pricing competition.

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