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Cramer likes FNFG,VMC,KO,PEP
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 6:23am | 186CNBC’s Mad Money Jim Cramer is Bullish on following four stocks:- Cramer is bullish on First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FNFG). So far, during the current year Shares of First Niagara have fallen by 24%. In March 2009, the stock hit its 52-week low of $9.48 and yesterday closed at $12.18...
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First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (FNFG) Announces 33.3M Public Shares
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 4:03am | 91First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: FNFG) announced the sale of 33.34M shares of common stock at a price of $12.00 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $400.1M, expects to close the transaction on or about September 30, 2009. First Niagara has approximately $13.2B in...
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Today's Morning Top Gainers (GBE,OPXA,FBC,ILI,ASTI)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:43am | 293Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is among the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged among 26.32% today to $1.68 on huge volume of 4.56 million shares. Yesterday, the stock surged over 38%. Opexa Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXA) rallied 22% on 6.38 million shares and now trades at...
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First Financial Holdings, Inc. (FFCH) Commences an Underwritten Public Offering of $50M off its Common Stock
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 6:47am | 80First Financial Holdings, Inc.(Nasdaq: FFCH) announced the commencement ofan underwritten public offering of $50M of its common stock. Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. is serving as sole book-running manager of the offering, and Keefe Bruyette & Woods, Scott & Stringfellow, LLC and FIG...
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Mutual Fund Investors Cling to Safety of Bonds, Missing Stock Rally - Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTAX) Benefits
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 1:58pm | 1105Talk this week has been that the retail investor has finally returned to the market in the past few days; further a Wall Street Journal article yesterday touted the explosion of volume in retail brokerage companies (Ameritrade, Etrade, et al) due to daytrading / speculation in the Citigroup (C),...
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Fund Performance Period 9
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 3:49pm | 2767As a reminder, if you are interested in this type of fund as a worthwhile consideration for future investment, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 7, 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 26, 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund...
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Financial Sector Declines for the Day Based on Comments (FNM, FRE, C, JPM, BAC, AIG)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 10:26am | 191Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) shares fell 5.6% and 7.9%, respectively, after James Lockhart, the former director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and currently a vice chairman at W.L. Ross, predicted that both would never fully repay their debts to the U.S. government. He...
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First Niagara (FNFG) Acquires 57 Western Pennsylvania Bank Branches
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 8:38am | 64First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNFG), announced that it has completed the acquisition of 57 Western Pennsylvania bank branches. This includes $3.9B of deposits and $757M of performing loans from National City Bank, a subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. All acquired...
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FDA Sets Action Date of April 23, 2010 for Review of Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) Pixantrone NDA
Monday, September 7, 2009 - 10:19am | 223Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTIC) announced that FDA has notified CTI that a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of April 23, 2010 under standard review has been established regarding CTI's NDA for pixantrone as potential treatment for relapsed or refractory aggressive non-...
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Fannie Mae (FNM) Regains Compliance with NYSE Minimum Price Listing Standard
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 9:01am | 36Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) yesterday received notice from the New York Stock Exchange that the company has regained compliance with NYSE's minimum price standard for continued listing of its common stock.
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Scott T. Sehnert to become CEO of First Federal Bankshares (FFSX)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 6:59am | 53First Federal Bankshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFSX) the holding company for Vantus Bank, a $503.5M savings bank headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa, selected Scott T. Sehnert as president and CEO of the company and of the bank. Sehnert will begin his duties on September 25
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67 Stocks Returning 50%+ the Past Month
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 2:56pm | 791I always like to take a look to see what stocks are "working" - helps me see where the money is going and what trends I am missing. I generally like to follow stocks over $5 only but since there is a bevy of "hot money" being made in the dollar stock area I thought I'd list those too this time...
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Markets Seem to be Flat-lining
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 10:05am | 248In August, the UK National home prices leaped to 1.6% against the forecasted 0.5% However, the GBP/USD continued its fall maybe because of the lingering worry that small UK businesses are unable to obtain the credit needed to support new opportunities. Meanwhile, Germany's Consumer Confidence...
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TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins for August 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 4:26pm | 3471VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - /T/ TSX VENTURE COMPANIES 71 CAPITAL CORP. ("SVN.P") BULLETIN TYPE: Halt BULLETIN DATE: August 18, 2009 TSX Venture Tier 2 Company Effective at 6:00 a.m. PST, August 18, 2009, trading in the shares of the Company was halted at the request...
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PMI Labs Signs LungSign(TM) Agreement With University of Chile for Regional Lung Cancer Screening Program
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 3:38pm | 690VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - PMI Labs (Perceptronix Medical Inc. Laboratories) and University of Chile Faculty of Medicine announce the signing of an agreement focused on implementing PMI Labs' proprietary quantitative cytology approach of analyzing sputum specimens...