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Industry’s First ETF for European Small Cap Equity Exposure Without the Euro WisdomTree (Nasdaq:WETF), an exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor and asset manager, today announced the launch of the WisdomTree Europe Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (EUSC) on the NYSE Arca. EUSC seeks to provide exposure to small capitalization stocks within European equity markets while...

Aims to continue its nationwide network expansion iKang Healthcare Group(Nasdaq:KANG) today announced that it had completed the acquisitions of Tianjin Hexi Kangmeng Hezhong Clinic Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Hedong District REMAHO Clinic Co., Ltd., which were set up in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Each of them operates a well-established medical center in Tianjin which provides […]

2014 Revenues Grow by 15% Trinity Biotech (Nasdaq:TRIB), a developer and manufacturer of diagnostic products for the point-of-care and clinical laboratory markets, today announced results for fiscal year 2014 and the quarter ended December 31, 2014. Fiscal year 2014 Results: Total revenues for fiscal year 2014 were $104.9m versus $91.2m in 2013, an increase of […]

Waht are the details? Wintrust Financial Corporation (Nasdaq:WTFC) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Community Financial Shares, Inc. CFIS is the parent company of Community Bank-Wheaton/Glen Ellyn, an Illinois-state chartered bank, which operates four banking locations in Wheaton and Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Since its formation in 1994, CBWGE has an exemplary...

Indeed they are. SunOpta Inc. (Nasdaq:STKL) (TSX:SOY), a global company focused on organic and healthy foods today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Citrusource, LLC.. The acquisition transaction closed contemporaneously with the execution of the definitive agreement. Citrusource is a leading supplier of premium not-from-concentrate private label organic and...

Net loss was $24.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2014 and $135.6 million for the year KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:KYTH) today reported financial results for its quarter and year ended December 31, 2014. “Last year KYTHERA achieved many milestones and this year we continue our upward momentum. Most notably, we filed our New Drug […]

Lately the U.S. and UK markets have been getting excitinger and excitinger. I know that’s bad grammar, but I just can’t help it. It’s exciting! We’ve been watching the FTSE 100 as we promised. (Obviously we would do that anyway.) But we can’t ignore the NASDAQ and the Russell 2000, both of which are reaching […]

Perk International Inc. (OTCBB:PRKI) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary TECH9 Inc. has entered into an extensive consulting contract with KONTACT MARKETING GROUP. The scope of the contract enables TECH9 Inc. to leverage its major accounts for broadcast on the 150 screens managed by Kontact Marketing Group. Under this agreement, TECH9 can place ads, […]

American National Insurance Company (Nasdaq:ANAT) announced 2014 net income of $247,193,000 or $9.18 per diluted share compared to net income of $268,372,000 or $9.97 per diluted share for 2013. After-tax operating income for 2014 increased to $209,791,000 or $7.79 per diluted share, from $185,120,000 or $6.88 per diluted share for 2013. The increase in operating […]

Under five-year contract, BP will offer courses next year in a new state-of-the-art Maersk Training facility in Houston BP will offer advanced training programs for its offshore drilling teams under a new global agreement with Maersk Training, further underscoring BP’s commitment to safe and reliable operations. By 2016, Maersk Training, which currently is working with […]