UnitedHealthcare will drop Quest Diagnostics as its laboratory provider effective Jan. 1 in favor of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.

The 10-year agreement is expected to bring Laboratory Corporation (NYSE: LH) more than $3 billion during the term of the contract.

RBC Capital analyst Jordan Rohan said he had come away from a meeting with Fox Interactive, the managers of MySpace, believing that �media investors may not fully appreciate what has already been done with MySpace or what may lie ahead.�

Lennar�s fiscal third quarter earnings came in at $1.30 a share, smack in the middle of the $1.25 to $1.35 a share the company estimated two weeks ago. Before that, Lennar had called for earnings of $1.90 to $1.95 a share. Lennar�s earnings per share are 37 percent lower than last year�s earnings of $2.06 a share.