D.R. Horton reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year earnings before markets opened Tuesday morning.
Swiss drug company Roche is trying to steal the part of biotech company Genentech (DNA) that it does not already own. Roche has offered to buy the 45% of DNA that belongs to public shareholders for...
Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) filed its intent to raise an aggregate of up to $400 million through offering $250 million for their convertible senior notes due 2015 and a concurrent common...
Genentech (NYSE: DNA) just announced its earnings were $0.69 EPS on $2.96 billion for the last quarter, and First Call had estimates pegged at $0.67 EPS on revenues of $2.97 Billion.  The...
Turner Investments Inc. has filed to come public via an IPO.  For filing purposes it listed $150 million as the amount up to which it will securities, although this is nominal and usually...
Offshore driller Cal Dive International Inc. (NYSE:DVR) reported third quarter earnings after markets closed yesterday. The company announced EPS of $0.44 on revenue of $278.7 million. Analysts had...
By Chad Brand of Peridot CapitalistWhen I wrote about the Merck (MRK) deal to acquire Sirna Therapeutics (RNAI) on 10/31 and predicted more biotech deals were coming, I didn’t realize it would...
Applied DNA Sciences shares made an incredible gain on Thursday after the company announced it had received an update from the FDA concerning its COVID-19 assay kit.
Independent oil & gas company Harvest Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: HNR) today announced the sale of its Venezuelan assets to Pertamina, the national oil company of Indonesia, for $725 million in...
The three major US equities indexes opened sharply lower this morning as there has been no news to counteract the weak economic projections that came out yesterday. The projected -0.3% contraction in...
We are seeing unusual trading activity so far this morning in shares of Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN), Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA), Genzyme Corp. (NASDAQ: GENZ), and PDL BioPharma, Inc. (Nasdaq:...
Two weeks ago, Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE:CLF) pushed out its shareholder vote on a merger with Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE:ANR) to mid-December. Alpha promptly filed suit, seeking to force...
Shares of ImaRx Therapeutics (IMRX) are off 15% to $1.18. The company’s news about it Transcranial Ultrasound in Clinical SONolysis clinical trial in patients with acute ischemic stroke...
Natural gas producer Vanguard Natural Resources LLC (NYSE: VNR) announced this morning that it has agreed to purchase natural gas and liquids assets from privately held Antero Resources for about...
This morning shares of Genentech (DNA-NYSE) are trading up 1.3% at just under $76.00 after a Deutsche Bank upgrade on the stock.  Shares closed at $74.90 yesterday and even traded as low as...