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By ForexMansion.com The European shared currency traded last week near four-months high against the dollar as inflation surged in UK and the Euro Zone beyond expectations, while debt crisis continued to haunt markets especially as Portugal's Parliament rejected PM Socrates austerity measure that...

Wunderlich is out with its report today on American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Wunderlich writes, "Buy-rated American Capital Agency Corp. continued its aggressive equity issuance campaign, pricing shares earlier this week through a bought transaction as...

MediciNova Inc (NASDAQ: MNOV) fell 24.44% to $2.69 at 9:50 am. MNOV priced its underwritten public offering of 2,750,000 units at $3.00 per unit. Iridium Communications Inc (NASDAQ: IRDMW) shares lost 13.11% to $2.65. IRDMW's trailing-twelve-month profit margin is 6.52%. Pacific Office Properties...

Tweet Many are calling 2011 the year of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).  I can assure you, it will not be called the year of the Social CMO.  In our analysis only 15 of the 143 CMO's and Chief Communication Executives (CCO's) in the Fortune 100 we studied have active Twitter Accounts.  Worse, 15...

On CNBC's Mad Money Lightning Round OT, Jim Cramer said that he prefers Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) over Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM). He explained that these stocks have about equal dividend yield, but when Treasury starts selling its portfolio that is going to be...

Newcastle Investment Corp. (NYSE: NCT) announced today that it plans to make a public offering of 15,000,000 shares of its common stock, subject to market and other conditions. In connection with the offering, the Company intends to grant the underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to...

IncrediMail Ltd (NASDAQ: MAIL) dipped 5.03% to $7.17 in the pre-market session. MAIL's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $29.16 million. American Capital Agency Corp (NASDAQ: AGNC) lost 3.51% to $28.08 in the pre-market session. AGNC announced the pricing of its public offering of 28,000,000 shares...

While directionally consistent with our expectations, Chimera Investment's (NYSE: CIM) dividend reduction occurred earlier in 2011 than forecasted. Jefferies believes the reduced dividend is a byproduct of both the natural delevering that occurs in re-REMIC subordinate securities, as well as share...

Deutsche Bank Reports Chimera's 1Q Dividend (CIM) Deutsche Bank has reported on the unexpectedly low 1Q dividend of Chimera (NYSE: CIM). Deutsche Bank writes, "Chimera declared a 1Q dividend of $0.14 per share, which was two cents below our estimate and down three cents sequentially. The dividend...

Deutsche Bank Maintains Buy Rating For NLY Deutsche Bank has reported on the 1Q dividend of Annaly (NYSE: NLY) and maintains its Buy Rating. According to the report, "Annaly's 1Q dividend beat our estimate of $0.60 per share and was down sequentially from $0.64 per share… We are maintaining our...

The Board of Directors of Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) declared the first quarter 2011 common stock cash dividend of $0.14 per common share. This dividend is payable April 28, 2011 to common shareholders of record on March 31, 2011. The ex-dividend date is March 29, 2011. The Board...

American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) announced today that it plans to make a public offering of 27,000,000 shares of its common stock. In connection with the offering, the Company intends to grant the underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to an additional 4,050,000 shares of...

Wunderlich Securities has reported that Hatteras Financial Corp.'s (NYSE: HTS) rating will remain Buy. According to Wunderlich Securities, "On Friday, Hatteras Financial Corp. (HTS) issued 14.5 million shares at a per share price of $28.50, which we calculate was accretive to book value, raising...

Hatteras Financial Corp. (NYSE: HTS) today announced that it priced a public offering of 14,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $28.50 per share for expected gross proceeds of $413,250,000 before underwriting discounts and expenses. The Company granted the underwriters...

Jefferies is raising its PT on shares of Chimera Investment Corp (NYSE: CIM) from $4.25 to $4.50. Chimera Investment closed Thursday at $4.22.