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Governor Asa Hutchinson, State and Local Leaders Participate in Groundbreaking Ceremony and Solar Facility Dedication Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE:AJRD) today hosted a groundbreaking ceremony attended by nearly 200 people including Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, other state and local dignitaries, company leaders and employees, to celebrate the company’s planned expansion that will bring...

++BREAKING NEWS++ Platform Specialty Products Corporation (NYSE:PAH) announced today that it had received antitrust clearance from the Federal Cartel Office in Germany in connection with its previously-announced recommended offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Alent plc in a cash and stock transaction for approximately $2.1 billion by way of a […]

Q2 2015 Production from Sugarloaf AMI, Texas Empyrean Energy, the profitable US onshore oil, gas and condensate exploration, development and production company with assets in Texas and California, has issued an update from its flagship Sugarloaf AMI Project in the prolific Eagle Ford Shale, Texas, for the three month period to the end of June […]

What are the details? BP and OMAN INTERNATIONAL PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES COMPANY (OMPET) (a joint venture between Oman Oil Company, LG International Corp and Takamul Investment Company) have entered into a licensing agreement for BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. OMPET intends to build a 1.1 million tonnes per annum (tpa) unit at Sohar, […]

What are the details? Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, today announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it entered into a time charter contract with Transgrain Shipping B.V., Rotterdam, for one of its Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Alcyon. The gross charter rate […]

What are the details? Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII), has celebrated the keel laying of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second ship of the Gerald R. Ford class. Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the ship’s namesake, the 35th President of the United States, is the ship’s […]

“The wisest rule in investment is: When others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.” ~ Jonathan Sacks “Panic is … […]

What are the details? Gazit-Globe (NYSE:GZT) (TSX:GZT) (TASE:GZT), a real estate company focused on the management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of supermarket-anchored shopping centers in major urban markets, announced today its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. Highlights: – NOI for the quarter increased by 25% to NIS 1,043 million (US$ […]

Flight Support Group Buys Aerospace & Commercial Technologies HEICO Corporation (NYSE:HEI.A) (NYSE:HEI) today announced it has acquired 80.1% of Aerospace & Commercial Technologies (ACT), a leading provider of products and services necessary to maintain up-to-date F-16 fighter aircraft operational capabilities. ACT’s leadership team will continue to own 19.9% of ACT. The purchase...

What does the deal entail? Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, today announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it entered into a time charter contract with China Shipping Bulk Carrier Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, for one of its Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v […]