Dallas, TX 8/1/2012 10:38:27 PM
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GIHI, MRGE, ECTE are included in our Midday Stock Report

PennyTrader.com Presents Today’s Midday Stock Report: GIHI, MRGE, ECTE

Globalgroup Investment Holdings, Inc. (PINK:GIHI) reached up 131.25% in morning trading to $.0037 with 2M shares traded. Globalgroup provides a viable online shopping alternative for fiscally challenged consumers by offering quality name brand products at affordable prices, regardless of household income, through credit alternatives and time-payment options. Globalgroup also offers technology solutions such as GlobalLOK™ that address the computer payment collection challenges associated with rent to own, pay as you go and no-credit-check computer markets, and in other industries where remote PCs and laptops are deployed. Sovereign Oil, a wholly owned subsidiary, has its emphasis on oil and gas exploration, drilling, and well completion. Globalgroup Investment Holdings, Inc. (GIHI) announced today that its subsidiary Sovereign Oil Corp has begun re-working O&G wells in Kansas. Initially two of the ten wells are now under secondary recovery drilling operations. Sovereign expects to have the re-work completed by the end of the month.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE) reached up 14.53% in morning trading to $3.39 with 1M shares traded. Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare. Merge's enterprise and cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health stations, clinical trials software and other health data and analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health. With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include more than 20 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. Merge Healthcare Incorporated (MRGE) yesterday announced its financial and business results for the second quarter of 2012. Revenue was $62.9 million ($63.4 million on a pro forma basis) in the quarter, compared to $55.6 million ($57.0 million on a pro forma basis) in the second quarter of 2011 - an increase of 13%; Adjusted EBITDA was $13.6 million, representing 21% of pro forma revenue in the quarter, compared to $17.1 million and 30% in the second quarter of 2011; Subscription-based pricing arrangements in which software, hardware and professional services are recognized ratably over a number of years generated 15% of total revenue in the quarter.

Echo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:ECTE) reached up 8.11% in morning trading to $1.60 with 200K shares traded. Echo Therapeutics is developing the Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system for patients with diabetes and for use in hospital critical care units. Echo is also developing its needle-free Prelude SkinPrep System as a platform technology for enhanced skin permeation for delivery of topical pharmaceuticals. Echo Therapeutics, Inc. (ECTE) today announced positive results from its clinical trial of the Symphony tCGM System in major general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery patients. This study is the second of two studies in critically ill patients.

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