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Merger Arbitrage Mondays – June 20, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 4:08am | 4958Merger activity increased last week with seven new deals announced and six closing. This spike in deals announced follows a temporary lull in the week prior where no new deals were announced. You can find all the active deals listed below in our Merger Arbitrage Tool that automatically updates...
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Top 4 Small-Cap Stocks In The Diagnostic Substances Industry With The Highest EPS
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 2:21am | 138Below are the top small-cap diagnostic substances stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of earnings per share. The trailing-twelve-month earnings per share at Trinity Biotech plc (NASDAQ: TRIB) is $2.78. TRIB's ROE for the same period is 53.87%. The trailing-twelve-month earnings per share...
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Some technical setups for next week
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 4:54pm | 1582( click to enlarge ) Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) is currently trading below the 20d, 50d and 200d SMAs, and they are all sloping down. However, there are some bullish indicators as evidenced in the chart above. On the daily time-frame, the MACD-histogram is sloping up and the 7d EMA has just...
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6 Dividend Stocks Ready to Explode Higher
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 3:53pm | 124We took at look at stocks with dividends poised to explode higher. These names all have the cash, forward-thinking management and shareholder-friendly policies to return cash to stakeholders. Here's what we discovered: Stryker (SYK): Stryker revenues exceeded $7 billion for the first time in 2010...
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American Medical Systems Gives Notice of Make-Whole Fundamental Change Conversion Rights to Holders of 4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2041
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 2:21pm | 131American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMMD) announced that, pursuant to the terms of the indenture governing its 4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2041, a “Make-Whole Fundamental Change” occurred on June 17, 2011 as a result of the transactions contemplated by the...
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Options Brief: Covidien Public Limited Company
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 10:17am | 78Shares of Covidien Public Limited Company (NYSE: COV) are higher on the session by 1.44%, trading at $52.76. Overall put volume is now running at 6.45x the daily average, with 0% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 4,110 contracts have traded on the session so far. Covidien Public...
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Blueshift Ideas Says Thoratec Corporation Will Dominate
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 1:56pm | 123Blueshift Ideas is out with a series of tweets on Thoratec Corporation (NASDAQ: THOR), saying the company will "dominate" in the space for the next six to twelve months. The company's competitor, HeartWare International Inc (NASDAQ: HTWR), has a device that is expected to compete with Thoratec for...
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St. Jude Medical's AGA Medical Subsidiary Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Occlutech
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 12:24pm | 148St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) today announced that AGA Medical, Inc. (acquired by St. Jude Medical in November 2010) has filed lawsuits against Occlutech GmbH and Occlutech U.K. for patent infringement. The suits, which involve a total of three patents and seek injunctive relief and monetary...
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BSD Medical Reports Accelerated MicroThermX Clinical Evaluations
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 10:01am | 80BSD Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: BSDM) today reported positive results from the efforts of its sales and distribution network for the MicroThermX Microwave Ablation line of products. At the hospital level, more MicroThermX® trained sales representatives are presenting the advantages of the...
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BIOLASE Announces Settlement With Philips, Resulting in Full and Final Dismissal of Litigation
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 9:01am | 199BIOLASE Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI) today announced that it reached a final settlement agreement with Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (NYSE: PHG) and Discus Dental LLC, regarding the litigation that Discus brought against BIOLASE in 2010 (Discus was subsequently acquired by Philips). In...
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Daxor Announces that Hartford Hospital of Hartford, CT Acquires BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 8:57am | 199Daxor Corporation (NYSE: DXR), a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, today announced the receipt of a signed trial agreement from Hartford Hospital of Hartford, Connecticut. This will provide Hartford Hospital with a Blood Volume Analyzer-100 (BVA-100), an instrument which enables...
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Robert S. Vaters Named President and Chief Executive Officer
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 8:32am | 176Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX) today announced the appointment of Robert S. Vaters its current Chief Operating Officer as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 1, 2011. Alan Milinazzo, the Company's current President and Chief Executive Officer will step down...
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Nipro Diagnostics and NeuroMetrix Announce Diabetes Focused Collaboration for the Retail Medical Clinic Market
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 4:41pm | 102Nipro Diagnostics, Inc. and NeuroMetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NURO) today announced their collaboration to evaluate opportunities for NC-stat | DPNCheck in retail medical clinics. NC-stat DPNCheck is a rapid, quantitative, point-of-care test for the evaluation of systemic neuropathies such as diabetic...
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Wednesday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 12:32pm | 84Here are today's Put/Call Ratio leaders… 1. H and R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB) 7,314 puts, 23 calls 2. Hologic Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX) 10,314 puts, 42 calls 3. Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) 10,672 puts, 100 calls 4. Lender Processing Services Inc. (NYSE: LPS) 2,812 puts, 33 calls 5. Cheesecake Factory Inc...
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Puts Purchased on Hologic, Inc.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 11:59am | 123Shares of Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX) are lower on the session by 0.97%, currently trading at $20.00. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past two months and is currently trading below the 500-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short while ago...