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Shares across Asia fell on worry that commodities prices, particularly metals, will continue to fall. Many miner and refinery stocks dropped. The Hang Seng was off by 1.6% to 20,543. The Shanghai...

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Newcastle Investment Corporation (NYSE: NCT) is getting clobbered on news of a secondary offering.  The company now plans to sell some 16.5 million shares of common stock in a public secondary...

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Millennial Media, Inc. (NYSE: MM) has priced its initial public offering for trading to begin on Thursday.  Some 10.2 million shares of common stock were sold at a price of $13.00 per share for this...

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The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) has posted its third quarter earnings, and the results show some serious declines in operating income and in margins.  Net earnings fell to $273 million from $542...

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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) has just announced a 21% gain in sales to $297 million for its fourth quarter and its non-GAAP earnings came to a gain of 12% to $0.29 in earnings per share.  Thomson...

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Swisher Hygiene Inc. (NASDAQ: SWSH) is having a bad day and it has to have shareholders more than just a bit worried.  The company has said that it will file a Notification of Late Filing with the...

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Markets opened nearly flat this morning but took a dive early and have muddled along the rest of the day in negative territory. This morning’s report on falling durable goods orders got things off on...

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The US Department of the Interior has approved the spill plan proposed by Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A), a nearly final step before the company can proceed with exploratory drilling off...

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Facebook shares are about to be halted by the sound of it.  A report from Bloomberg noted that Facebook has asked companies which participate in trading of Facebook shares to stop trading shares at...

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Computer products distributor Synnex Inc. (NYSE: SNX) is watching its share price plummet today following its first quarter earnings report released last night after the markets closed. The company...

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The Shanghai Composite fell 2.7% on fears that the China economy has slowed and that this will hurt the earnings of countries in the People’s Republic. Metals companies in particular are likely...

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Facebook filed a new document in its move toward its IPO. In that document, it admitted that Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) patent claims are a risk to its business. That means that Facebook’s...

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Markets opened slightly higher this morning but have been wobbling around the neutral line for the whole day. This morning’s report on the decline of housing prices (our coverage here) and the drop...

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This morning’s report on the S&P Case-Shiller housing price index indicated that housing prices continue to fall in the US (our coverage here). Shortly before the January data was released,...

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In a second day of argument, the US Supreme Court today seemed to indicate that the majority of justices are coming down against the individual mandate in the health care reform act known as...

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After just five months on the job, Sears Holding Co. (NASDAQ: SHLD) marketing head Monica Woo has left the company. She is moving to privately held Mozido, a provider of white-label multi-channel...

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Foster Wheeler LLC, a subsidiary of Swiss-based construction firm Foster Wheeler AG (NASDAQ: FWLT), snagged a ratings boost from Moody’s today. The company’s debt is now rated ‘Baa3’ with a stable...

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After the markets closed last night, Oclaro Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) and Opnext Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXT) announced a definitive merger agreement that will give Opnext shareholders 0.42 shares of Oclaro common...

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Mobile advertising network Millennial Media Inc. filed its Form S-1 with the SEC in early January with a suggested price range of $11-$13/share. The company filed an amended S-1 today, lifting the...

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For the month of February, the percentage of single-family homes that were three or more months behind in payments fell to 3.57%, the first time since August 2011 that the month-to-month change has...

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