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Company Announces Placement of Approximately U.S. $4.1 Million of Equity Securities Sphere 3D Corp. (Nasdaq:ANY) has signed definitive agreements for a private placement of 1,281,250 Common Shares of the Company and Warrants to purchase up to 1,281,250 Common Shares for a gross purchase price of approximately U.S.$4.1 million on May 13, 2015. The purchase price […]

Strategy Update, Technology Acquisition and Advisory Board Addition Highlands Natural Resources (HNR) have provided an update regarding the development of its portfolio since its Initial Public Offering in March 2015. Highlights: · Discussions regarding the acquisition of the Company’s first production asset in the US oil and gas sector are advanced · Strategy broadened to […]

After rumors regarding a potential take over of AOL ( NYSE:AOL) by Verizon (NYSE:VZ) emerged last week, AOL’s share price rose more than 12.0% from 39.38 on Thursday to a high of 44.14 on on Friday 08 May. Fast forward to today (Tuesday, 12 May 2015). AOL shares are now trading at 50.52 after having […]

BP, on behalf of the Schiehallion co-venturers Shell and OMV, is pleased to announce the start of drilling on the Loyal field by the new-build, semi-submersible Deepsea Aberdeen, marking the start of a seven year drilling campaign west of Shetland. Deepsea Aberdeen is contracted to drill wells across the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, as part […]

May 2015 Monthly Dividend of $0.18 Per Share – RMBS Portfolio Characteristics as of April 30, 2015 Orchid Island Capital (NYSE:ORC) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a monthly cash dividend for the month of May 2015. The dividend of $0.18 per share will be paid May 29, 2015, to holders of record […]

Shire’s (LSE:SHP) share price jumped by 45.0 points and 0.85% to 5,335.0 today after announcing that it had handily beaten earnings expectations for the first quarter ended 31 March 2015.  The average analyst earnings estimate for Shire in the first quarter was $604 million (£393 million).  If $604 was the outfield wall, Shire hit a […]

All three of the leading U.S. stock market indices are down today following the Commerce Department’s report on the GDP for the first quarter, whilst observers are still waiting to hear the monthly report from the Federal Reserve. At 1:30 pm EDT the Dow and the S&P 500 are both down 0.64%, with the  Dow down […]

Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (NYSE:ORC), a real estate investment trust, today announced results of operations for the three month period ended March 31, 2015. First Quarter 2015 Highlights: – Net income of $5.5 million, or $0.33 per common share – First quarter total dividends declared and paid of $0.54 per common share – Book Value […]

Let us look at the detais…. Windstream Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIN) announced today that its wholly owned-subsidiaries, Windstream Services, LLC (Windstream) and PAETEC Holding, LLC (PAETEC), are calling for redemption certain of their outstanding notes on May 27, 2015. Windstream is calling all of the approximately $400 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of its 8.125% Senior...

Fifteen years ago, in 2000, the sages warned that the dot.com bubble was going to burst. They were right. It did. I don’t remember them saying that it would come bubbling back in 2015. But it did – yesterday. Some may want to call it by a different name, but when the NASDAQ (NASDAQI:COMPX) rose […]