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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 […]

Net sales of $187 million, an increase of 8% Phibro Animal Health Corporation (Nasdaq:PAHC) today announced its financial results for its third quarter ended March 31, 2015. – Highlights for the March 2015 quarter (compared to the March 2014 quarter) – Net sales of $187 million, an increase of 8% – Adjusted EBITDA of $27.5 […]

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...

First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSFG) , the holding company for First Savings Bank, today reported net income and net income available to common shareholders of $1.5 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 compared to net income and net income available to common shareholders of $1.5 million, or […]

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 […]

Kaiser Aluminum Terminates Defined Benefit Accounting With Respect to the Union VEBA and Removes the Related Net Assets From Its Balance Sheet Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (Nasdaq:KALU) today announced that, as a result of the definitive expiration of its obligation to make annual variable contributions to the union voluntary employees’ beneficiary association (the “Union...

Sale to Antin Infrastructure Partners BP today announced it has agreed to sell its equity in the Central Area Transmission System (CATS) business in the UK North Sea to Antin Infrastructure Partners for £324 million ($486 million). BP is currently the operator of CATS. The agreement comprises a payment on completion of £302 million ($453 […]

Operating Results Stable; Impacted by Seasonality and Energy Cycle Hancock Holding Company (Nasdaq:HBHC) today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2015. Operating income for the first quarter of 2015 was $44.7 million, or $.55 per diluted common share, compared to $46.4 million, or $.56, in the fourth quarter of 2014. Operating income […]