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Potlatch to Switch Listing to NASDAQ
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 9:35am | 84Potlatch Corporation (NYSE: PCH) today announced that its Board of Directors has voted to transfer its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to The NASDAQ Global Select Market, an exchange of The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ). The Company currently expects that its common...
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Options Brief: KKR Financial Holdings (KFN)
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 3:18pm | 114Shares of KKR Financial Holdings (NYSE: KFN) are higher on the session by 1.20%, trading at $9.25. Overall call volume is now running at 4.59x the daily average, with 65% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 2,630 contracts have traded on the session so far. KKR Financial Holdings LLC...
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Puts Purchased on The NASDAQ OMX Group (NDAQ)
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 2:44pm | 153Shares of The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) are lower on the session by 3.14%, currently trading at $22.52. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today....
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Neutral on IntercontinentalExchange - Analyst Blog
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 4:06am | 731We reiterate our Neutral recommendation on IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) based on immediate concerns regarding regulatory ambiguity, increased operating expenses, weak credit quality and sluggish market activity. However, the company's strong product portfolio, consistent cash generation,...
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Neutral on IntercontinentalExchange - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 1:39pm | 731We reiterate our Neutral recommendation on IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) based on immediate concerns regarding regulatory ambiguity, increased operating expenses, weak credit quality and sluggish market activity. However, the company's strong product portfolio, consistent cash generation,...
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LPHI Announces 5-for-4 Stock Split
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 10:31am | 51Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPHI) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 5-for-4 split of the company's common stock which will be paid in the form of a stock dividend on December 31, 2010, to shareholders of record as of December 21, 2010.
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High Yield American Stock Exchange Stocks
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 11:19pm | 436The American Stock Exchange, also known as the AMEX, was founded in 1842 as the New York Curb Exchange. It got that name since stock traders and brokers used to stand out on the street by the curb and trade stocks back in the early 1800's. On October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext (NYX) took over the...
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Mad Money Lightning Round OT: Cramer Likes CELG (AMGN, CELG, EXC, NYX, BAC)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 8:51pm | 280Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money Lightning Round OT that Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) doesn't have the growth. He recommended Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) instead, and said that it should be bought ahead of American Society of Hematology annual meeting. Amgen, Inc. (AMGN) gained 1.58% today...
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Commerce Bancshares Outlook Raised - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 3:11pm | 358Rating outlook of Commerce Bancshares Inc. (CBSH) and its subsidiaries were upgraded by Moody's Investors Service, a unit of Moody's Corp. (MCO).The rating outlook was upped to “stable” from “negative”. The reason behind this upward revision is the company's stable performance, solid capital and...
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AIG Offers Notes After 2 Years - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 1:35pm | 662Moving ahead with its capital restructuring, American International Group Inc. (AIG) finally entered the debt market yesterday, two years after the company was bailed out in 2008, as it intends to vend off $2.0 billion of bonds in two parts. The company has filed a regulatory prospectus for the...
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Top Narrow Based Indexes For December 1 (DIET, PRAA, ANSS)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 12:28pm | 188By 11:18 am, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 193.83 points, or 1.76%, to 11,199.85, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index had gained 14.32 points, or 1.21%. The NASDAQ composite index rose 50.22 points, or 2.01%. Some of the narrow based indexes that are driving the markets are...
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Benzinga's Volume Movers (EURX, OVTI, ECPG, PEET)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 12:06pm | 169Eurand NV (NASDAQ: EURX) shares surged 8.25% to $11.88 at 12:48 pm. The volume of EURX shares traded was 8261% higher than normal. EURX has agreed to be purchased by Axcan Holdings Inc for about $583 million or $12 per Eurand share in cash, representing a 9.4% premium to EURX's closing price on...
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CME Group Upgraded to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 9:29am | 30CME Group (NYSE: CME) is upgraded from Hold to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. The analysts have a $330 price target on CME Group.
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Commerce Bancshares Outlook Raised - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 8:47am | 358Rating outlook of Commerce Bancshares Inc. (CBSH) and its subsidiaries were upgraded by Moody's Investors Service, a unit of Moody's Corp. (MCO).The rating outlook was upped to “stable” from “negative”. The reason behind this upward revision is the company's stable performance, solid capital and...
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AIG Offers Notes After 2 Years - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 8:10am | 662Moving ahead with its capital restructuring, American International Group Inc. (AIG) finally entered the debt market yesterday, two years after the company was bailed out in 2008, as it intends to vend off $2.0 billion of bonds in two parts. The company has filed a regulatory prospectus for the...