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$2T Coronavirus Stimulus Package Stalled Further As Senate Clashes Over Specifics
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 11:26pm | 455Read More...The United States Senate remained divided along party lines over an economic stimulus package to counter the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak again on Monday. Votes Divided On Party Lines The senators voted 49-46 in favor of the stimulus, falling well short of the required 60 votes. Alabama...
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SoftBank $41B Buyback Sends Stock Soaring
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 7:14am | 440Read More...SoftBank Group Corp’s (OTC: SFTBY) directors have approved a plan to repurchase shares totaling 4.5 trillion yen or $41 billion, leading to the company's stock registering the biggest daily gains in 12 years. What Happened SoftBank Group (SBG) announced Monday its plans to sell...
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Notable Insider Buys Last Week: Small-Cap Biotechs
Saturday, January 18, 2020 - 6:09pm | 624Read More...Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors. Insiders at some small-cap biotechs have made notable share purchases. At two of them, the shares were sold in recent secondary offerings. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10% owners really only buy shares of a company...
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UAE Royal Family Acquires Stake In CPI200 Crypto Price Index
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 3:25pm | 343Read More...The Emirati royal family has taken a stake in the Crypto Price Index (CPI) project, a cryptocurrency analog of the Dow Jones Industrial Average that operates on the blockchain. The development comes as the royal family believes that volatile and uncertain digital asset markets need...
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TILT Holdings' Tim Conder Talks Business Strategy, Tightly Regulated Cannabis Markets
Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 5:04pm | 1003Read More...By Peter Page. A common complaint in the legal cannabis industry is that onerous regulation is bad for business, but Tim Conder, the co-founder of Blackbird and new COO of TILT Holdings Inc (OTC: TLLTF), sees it very differently. The tougher the regulations are, he reasons, the bigger the reward...
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Think Staples Stink? Think Again
Friday, July 6, 2018 - 11:32am | 532Read More...The consumer staples sector, the sixth-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has been rightfully derided as one of this year's worst-performing groups. The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLP), the largest exchange traded fund tracking the sector, and other traditional cap-...
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Morgan Stanley Projects A Strong Q4 At Salesforce
Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 11:41am | 410Read More...Cloud computing name salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) is likely to report strong fourth-quarter results with sustained demand trickling into its fiscal 2019, according to Morgan Stanley. The company is scheduled to report after the market close Feb. 28. The Analyst Analyst Keith Weiss...
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Myomo CEO Talks M&A Potential: Ossur, Ottobock 'Have Been Inquisitive In The Past'
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 4:36pm | 313Read More...Myomo Inc (NYSE: MYO) has caught the gaze of some brazen admirers. Ossur and current partner Ottobock “have been inquisitive in the past” about buyout possibilities, Myomo CEO Paul Gudonis told Benzinga Tuesday at the LD Micro Conference. He posited additional merger potential in Asian...
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LD Micro Small Cap Conference To Host A Litany Of High-Profile Execs, Investors
Monday, December 4, 2017 - 5:28pm | 857Read More...The 10-year anniversary edition of the LD Micro Main Event kicked off Monday, Dec. 4 in Los Angeles, California. The event runs through Thursday. A focus on "many of the most influential companies in the micro-cap space" has helped the LD Micro event win the riotous title "Woodstock...
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What's Happening In Root9B?
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 12:32pm | 482Read More...Root9B Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: RTNB) investors have been rattled since Friday morning when the stock halted seven times on circuit breakers. Since then, Nasdaq halted trading twice pending news and, on Wednesday morning, twice on circuit breakers. The nano-cap stock is up 287 percent since Friday....
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Marcum Conference To Connect Public, Private Micro-Caps With Critical Investors
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 7:40am | 815Read More...Throughout his 20-plus-years with Marcum LLP, an independent auditor of public companies, David Bukzin has played witness to the contraction of the IPO market. As the founding head of Marcum’s SEC Services practice, Bukzin supports entrepreneurial companies that opt to migrate into the public...
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Exclusive: Orexigen Therapeutics Execs Talk Contrave And The Stock's Roller-Coaster Ride
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 12:17pm | 1485Read More...Meet Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX), a micro-cap biopharmaceutical company delivering one of the strongest stock market performances of 2017 so far. After losing almost 90 percent of its value over 2016, shares have recuperated more than 80 percent this year. Benzinga recently spoke...
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Small-Cap Value For A Nominal Fee
Friday, April 21, 2017 - 9:23am | 538Read More...Low fees on exchange-traded funds are one of the biggest selling points of this asset class and one of the primary reasons investors are continually ditching higher-fee, under-performing actively managed mutual funds. Lower Fees Attract Assets Even better for investors is that ETF issuers are...
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Where To Find Value With Small Caps
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 12:03pm | 580Read More...A concern many investors have when mulling small-cap stocks or related exchange-traded funds is the often high valuations that come with the growth opportunity offered by smaller stocks. Finding value with small-caps has proven potent over time. In fact, long-term data suggest small-cap value funds...
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A Small-Cap Dividend Darling
Sunday, April 9, 2017 - 11:30am | 517Read More...U.S. small-cap stocks are among this year's most notable laggards. Something else that has been widely documented is the outperformance offered by ex-U.S. small-caps, a scenario pertaining to both developed and emerging markets smaller stocks. Speaking of outperformance courtesy of emerging...
