Atara Biotherapeutics announced results from its Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical trial for PINTA 745 for the treatment of protein energy wasting in patients with end stage renal disease.
Canadian-based fertilizer maker Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) made an unsolicited offer for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) earlier this week of one share of stock plus $31.70 cash for each CF...
We’ve been watching the fertilizer industry’s merger triangle of Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU), CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), and Terra Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRA) for a while now. In the...
Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) was lost in the financial shuffle today.  Perhaps it should not have been.  The stock rose up 8.5% at $43.05 today on more than double the normal volume.  Options were...
Atara Biotherapeutics finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place after Friday's drug study news concerning its treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Source: Flickr, James SarmientoAfter a shaky start to the year, the for-profit college sector has pulled itself back up. With one exception, however, four of five stocks we looked at are still down...
For the second time in as many weeks, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) has rejected an offer from Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU), saying that “Agrium’s offer is grossly inadequate, substantially...
Publicly traded for-profit college stocks have been on a two-year roller coaster ride that looked like it was sorting itself out early in June. At that time, the US Department of Education ruled that...
Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE: TRA) is back in the mergers and acquisitions spotlight as the target of CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF).  If this sounds familiar, it is because CF tried to do a...
Fertilizer maker CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) this morning rejected a buyout offer from Canada’s Agrium, Inc. (NYSE: AGU). The stock and cash offer was valued at about $72/share of CF...
Barely a week ago, we noted that Terra Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRA) was likely to refuse an unsolicited offer from CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) because the deal included only 0.4325 shares...
Source: Flickr, James SarmientoCorinthian Colleges Inc. (NASDAQ: COCO) reported a fourth fiscal quarter EPS loss of $0.08 and $394.78 million in sales before markets opened this morning. In the same...
If there is a sector under fire after insurance and banking, it is for-profit education.  Shares of the for-profit universities and for-profit continuing education companies have seen their stock...
Tuesday's top analyst calls were in shares of Albermarle, Atara Biotherapeutics, Chimerix, IHS, NetApp, Pure Storage and more.
CIGNA Corporation (NYSE: CI) rose over 5% to a yearly high of $33.84 after Goldman Sachs said that managed-care providers are cheap and that the danger posed to the category by health-care reform has...