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Just minutes after the New York Stock Exchange opened this morning (Tuesday, 23 December), Santa delivered an early Christmas present. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) went flying past the 18,000 mark for the first time ever. Only a decade ago, and certainly following the 2008-2009 financial crisis, no one would have believed that 18,000 […]

Provides a greater than 5.5 times return on invested capital and contributes to Rand’s SBIC achieving a 12-year return of over 20% Rand Capital Corporation (Nasdaq:RAND), a business development company that makes venture capital investments in companies with emerging product, service or technology concepts, announced that it received $10.1 million in total proceeds from the […]

So, what should you be looking at? Autobytel (Nasdaq:ABTL), a pioneer of the automotive Internet and the company dedicated to connecting automotive consumers with dealers, recently revealed interesting new and used car shopping trends at Autobytel.com for November 2014, as well as actual vehicle sales, by manufacturer, that resulted from Autobytel leads for the first […]

~+++BREAKING NEWS+++ Gladstone Capital Corporation (Nasdaq:GLAD) has announced today that on December 19, 2014, it made a $8.4 million investment to recapitalize B+T Group in partnership with B+T Group’s management team. Gladstone Capital completed this transaction with its affiliate, Gladstone Investment Corporation (Nasdaq:GAIN), which invested $19.6 million. In addition to the equity...

Nicholas Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq:NICK) today announced that it expects to commence within 30 days of this announcement a “modified Dutch auction” tender offer to repurchase a number of its outstanding Common shares not to exceed an aggregate purchase price of $70.0 million. In accordance with rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company may […]

On first Rumaila visit, oil minister Adel Abdul-Mehdi’s charts progress and hears plans South Oil Company, BP, PetroChina and SOMO, which together form Rumaila Operating Organization (ROO), today pledged to ensure Rumaila continues to expand its contribution to Iraq over the next 20 years. Iraq’s new oil minister Adel Abdul Mehdi today attended an event […]

This past week the FTSE 100 aggregate companies regained £62 billion of the £112 billion in valuation that they lost during the prior week. The index finished the week at 6,545.27, a gain of 3.9% on the week. Oops! Pardon me. That introduction kind of took the polish off the headline, didn’t it? Oh well, I might […]

The mighty, international fast-food giant is definitely in trouble. McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) share price, although up 3.21% today to 91.58, is at its lowest since September 2012. Investors are following customers as they go in other directions. I remember way back when McDonald’s was considered to be a “sleeping giant” in the traditionally sense of the […]

Net revenues of $16.4 million Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. (NYSE:UWN) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended October 31, 2014. For the second quarter of fiscal 2015, the company reported net revenues of $16.4 million compared to $16.3 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2014. Net revenues from Washington increased $0.3 […]

First Investigational Immunotherapy for AL Amyloidosis to Receive FDA Fast Track Designation – Follows Recent Initiation of The VITAL Amyloidosis Study, a Global Phase 3 Registrational Trial of NEOD001 for Patients with AL Amyloidosis Prothena Corporation plc (Nasdaq:PRTA), a late-stage clinical biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel...