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10:24 PM Don't say Goldman didn't warn you (I, II). Corn (CORN) prices fell Tuesday to multi-week lows after the Department of Agriculture reported a 43 percentage point increase from last week to this week in the amount of the corn crop planted, bringing the total to 71% compared to just 28% a week ago. Comment! [Commodities]
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10:09 PM Shares of Sony (SNE) post double-digit gains in Tokyo after putting in a similarly impressive performance in U.S. trading, as rumors abound regarding a potential spinoff of the company's entertainment business. Broadly, Japanese stocks rally, as the Nikkei jumps 1% to 15,548 ahead of the conclusion of the BOJ's policy meeting. Comment! [Global & FX]
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8:28 PM After five days of deliberation, the Senate Judiciary Committee puts its final stamp of approval on the immigration reform bill, setting up a debate on the Senate floor for early June. Three Republicans and ten Democrats voted to support the bill, which would create a pathway to citizenship for nearly 11M undocumented immigrants, invest billions in new border security measures and overhaul the legal immigration system. 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
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7:40 PM Baltic Trading (BALT) announces a public offering of common stock. Size and terms weren't disclosed. The company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for future vessel acquisitions or, to the extent it does not so use them, for working capital and general corporate purposes. Shares +1.8% AH. Comment! [Global & FX, On the Move]
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7:39 PM Amazon's (AMZN) ad ambitions pose a threat to Google (GOOG), thinks ReadWrite's Derek Brown. In addition to Amazon's vision/ambition, obsession with customer satisfaction, and willingness to forgo near-term profits, the e-commerce giant's mountains of consumer purchase data stand to give it an edge as it pushes ads on its sites, on Kindles, and through a targeted display ad network. Moreover, Amazon could provide customers/partners with "relevant online transaction activity that might follow [its ads], effectively offering a closed loop marketing environment unlike any other." Of course, Google isn't standing still either. Comment! [Tech, Consumer]
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7:38 PM Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals (CYCC) closes its previously announced underwritten offering totaling 6,833,334 shares at $3 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $20.5M. Shares +1% AH. Comment! [Healthcare]
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7:26 PM "We commend the positive steps taken by NetApp (NTAP) today" says Elliott Associates portfolio manager Jesse Cohn in response to news the enterprise storage giant has more than doubled its buyback authorization to $3B (with plans to buy aggressively), initiated a $0.15/share dividend (with plans to increase it), and is planning to cut ~900 jobs. Cohn adds Elliott, an activist investor, owns ~16M NetApp shares (good for a 4.3% stake), and looks forward to "the company's continued commitment to creating shareholder value." Shares +2.7% AH. (previous) 1 Comment [Tech]
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7:07 PM VMware (VMW, EMC) officially launches its vCloud Hybrid Service, which allows clients to pair on-premise workloads with a VMware-run public cloud infrastructure. VMware claims the service supports more than 90 OS', has high-availability options, and allows public and on-premise workloads to be jointly managed. VMware also says it will offer SAP software, including Hana, "as a subscription service on premise and in the cloud." vCloud Hybrid competes with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure (perhaps the most direct rival), and Rackspace's OpenStack offerings. ITWorld calls it "ideal for a significant set of enterprise applications," but adds it's "no Amazon killer," given AWS' focus on low cost and ease-of-use. 3 Comments [Tech]
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6:55 PM Why do so many investors believe in a summer rally? On average, in the 116 years since the Dow was created, the Dow gained 5.29% from the end of May through its highest close over the next three months. Before you get too excited, Mark Hulbert calculates that every season of the calendar can boast a rally of similar magnitude - 5.23%. 2 Comments [Quick Ideas]
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6:38 PM SolarWinds (SWI) attempts to move downmarket and obtain a stronger cloud presence by striking a deal to acquire private N-able for $120M in cash. Whereas SolarWinds' IT management offerings are more focused on enterprises (it has been gaining share here against the likes of CA, BMC, H-P, and IBM), N-able sells cloud-based IT management software to service providers, who in turn use them to offer IT management services to SMBs. (PR) Comment! [Tech, M&A]
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