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/ CORRECTION - JPMorgan Takes First Place Among Prime Brokerages in Alpha Magazine's Annual Awards Survey
In the news release, "JPMorgan Takes First Place Among Prime Brokerages in Alpha Magazine's Annual Awards Survey," issued earlier today by Institutional Investor, we are advised by the company that in the headline and third paragraph "JPMorgan" should read "Morgan Stanley." Complete corrected text follows. Morgan Stanley Takes First...
Tags: Alpha, FINANCE, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., survey
Research articles 2008-10-24
JPMorgan Takes First Place Among Prime Brokerages in Alpha Magazine's Annual Awards Survey
Hedge funds are demanding more than ever from service providers -- not just their prime brokers but their law firms, accountants and administrators according to the results of the fourth annual Alpha AwardsTM Hedge Fund Service Providers survey. Full results in all categories are available online at www.iimagazine.com...
Tags: Alpha, FINANCE, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., survey
Research articles 2008-10-24
Cliffs Natural Resources Updates 2008 Full-Year Outlook, Sets Date for Shareholder Vote on Alpha Natural Resources Merger
CLEVELAND -- Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF), an international mining company, today updated its 2008 full-year outlook. The update is being made in conjunction with a definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus for the Company's proposed merger with Alpha Natural Resources. Cliffs said its outlook is based on expectations at the...
Tags: Alpha, Company, FINANCE, Investment, merger, sales, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 2008-10-23
Cleveland-Cliffs Shareholders Reject Harbinger's Control Share Acquisition Proposal at Special Meeting of Shareholders
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in mid-October, today announced that, based on the preliminary count provided by its proxy solicitor, it appears that approximately 80% of shares voted by holders other than Harbinger Capital Partners, its equity-swap counter parties or other "interested"...
Tags: acquisition, Alpha, Cleveland, Company, FINANCE, Harbinger, Investment, merger, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 2008-10-03
Leading Proxy Advisory Firm Glass Lewis Recommends That Cleveland-Cliffs Shareholders Vote AGAINST Control Share Acquisition Proposal on the White Proxy Card
All Three Leading Proxy Advisory Firms Recommend Shareholders Vote AGAINST Harbinger's Proposal CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in the coming months, today announced that Glass Lewis & Co., a leading independent proxy advisory firm, recommends that Cleveland-Cliffs shareholders vote AGAINST Harbinger...
Tags: acquisition, Alpha, Company, FINANCE, Harbinger, Investment, Lewis, merger, SEC
Research articles 2008-09-22
Leading Proxy Advisory Firms RiskMetrics and PROXY Governance Recommend That Cleveland-Cliffs Shareholders Vote AGAINST Control Share Acquisition Proposal on the White Proxy Card
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in the coming months, today announced that RiskMetrics Group (formerly Institutional Shareholder Services or "ISS") and PROXY Governance, Inc., two leading independent proxy advisory firms, recommend that Cleveland-Cliffs shareholders vote AGAINST Harbinger Capital Partners' proposed control share...
Tags: acquisition, Alpha, Cleveland, Company, FINANCE, Investment, merger, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 2008-09-19
Factors associated with the level of superfund liability disclosure in 10K reports: 1991-1997
ABSTRACT This study examines factors associated with the level of Superfund disclosure in 10K reports. Sample firms consist of Fortune 500 companies identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as Potentially Responsible Parties. The study utilizes a comprehensive environmental disclosure index based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, to measure the...
Tags: accounting, alphA, Environmental, FINANCE, G., GAAP, M., Regulation, Strategy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2008-09-01
Cleveland-Cliffs Reaches Tentative Agreement with United Steelworkers on New Labor Contract for Michigan and Minnesota Mining Operations
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in the coming months, today announced a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers USW, on a new four-year labor contract that will cover approximately 2,300 USW-represented workers at Cliffs' Empire and Tilden Mines in Michigan, and its...
Tags: agreement, ALPHA, Cleveland, Company, FINANCE, Investment, merger, Michigan, SEC, United
Research articles 2008-09-01
Cleveland-Cliffs Files Updated Investor Presentation with SEC
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in conjunction with its planned merger with Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR), today announced that it has filed an updated investor presentation with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in connection with the proposed Alpha transaction....
Tags: ALPHA, Cleveland, Company, FINANCE, Investment, merger, SEC
Research articles 2008-08-04
All four IBO indexes defy market turbulence
Disappointing economic news continued to weigh on the US markets this month. On July 31, the US reported second-quarter economic growth of 1.9%, compared to economists' expectations of 2.3%. The US also lowered its GDP estimates for the first quarter of this year and the fourth quarter of 2007 to...
Tags: Affymetrix, Alpha, analyst, Danaher Corp., FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, instrumentation, Invitrogen Corp., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., RAE Systems, Technologies
Research articles 2008-07-31
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc Reports Record Second-Quarter and First-Half 2008 Results
* Company Achieves Second-Quarter Net Income of $270 Million and Diluted EPS of $2.57 on Sales of $1 Billion * First-Half 2008 Revenues Surge 72% to a Record $1.5 Billion; Net Income Reaches $287 Million, or $2.73 Per Diluted Share * Empire and Tilden Expansion, United Taconite Minority...
Tags: ALPHA, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Company, FINANCE, Investment, merger, revenue, SALES, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 2008-07-30
Rig horror remembered
A MEMORIAL service was held on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha rig tragedy that claimed the lives of 167 men. Survivors from the region travelled to Aberdeen, Scotland, for a ceremony to remember what remains the world's worst offshore disaster. The disaster was caused...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Alpha, Strategy
Research articles 2008-07-07
Initial allocation compensation algorithm for redundancy allocation: The scanning heuristic
1. Introduction The manufacturing yield and operating reliability of a complex system can be enhanced with three main approaches: i adding redundancies to vulnerable components; ii increasing the robustness of the weak components themselves; and iii simplifying the system configuration (Kuoet al., 2001; Ha and Kuo, 2005). Among the...
Tags: algorithm, allocation, alphA, bound, compensation, computation, Delta, Engineering, heuristics, IEEE, performance
Research articles 2008-07-01
Alpha Natural Resources Among First U.S. Companies to Usher in New Era of XBRL Filing
Alpha Natural Resources didn't wait long to test the waters of the new US GAAP Taxonomy UGT. On June 23, the first day companies could file their XBRL documents using the new UGT, the supplier of high-quality Appalachian coal to electric utilities, steel producers and heavy industry became the...
Tags: Alpha, FINANCE, SEC, XBRL
Research articles 2008-06-30
All four IBO indexes follow market's decline
The markets tumbled in June as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 10.2%, 8.6%, 9.1%, respectively. With rising inflation, record oil prices and a worsening credit markets, even the most optimistic Wall Street pundits dismissed any ideas about a quick recovery in the second half of...
Tags: Affymetrix, Alpha, Danaher Corp., DJIA, FINANCE, Invitrogen Corp., Millipore Corp., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pall Corp., RAE Systems
Research articles 2008-06-30
The 29th Annual Engine Yearbook
Contacts Sales & Marketing: Kevin Boucher, Kavas Mistry Engineering: Everett Treat Parts & Service: Dave Reak Warranty: Roger Dennison Power Range Gaseous Fuel: 10 to 155 hp New Engines Arrow has announced the addition of three new models to its multi-cylinder VR...
Tags: ALPHA, biodiesel, Cummins Inc., Deere, Diesel, Engineering, Gas, Interim, LNG, SAE, Technology, Tier, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2008-06-01
Strong gains in May for all four IBO Stock Indexes
Despite new economic data, investors appear to be increasingly mystified as to the actual condition of the economy. On May 20, the Federal Reserve lowered its 2008 growth forecast to 0.3%-1.2% from 1.3%-2.0%, citing inflation and unemployment concerns. Coupled with record-high crude oil prices of $135 a barrel and renewed...
Tags: Agilent Technologies Inc., Alpha, analyst, Danaher Corp., DJIA, FINANCE, Harvard, instrumentation, investor, Millipore Corp., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pall Corp., RAE Systems, SALES, stock, Technologies, Transportation
Research articles 2008-05-31
Pre-harvest price expectations for corn: the information content of USDA reports and new crop futures
Futures prices play an important price discovery role in the marketing of storable commodities. This function requires that agents (1) have informed expectations regarding the size of the future crop and futures prices reflect that available information. Hence, two interesting questions that arise are: What sources of information contribute to...
Tags: agent, alphA, corn, Delta, forecasting, Hamilton, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2008-05-01
Another look at yield spreads: the role of liquidity
1. Introduction The expectations hypothesis hereafter EH of the term structure of interest rates states that the long-term rate is determined by the expectation for the short-term rate plus a constant term premium. With rational expectations, one of the EH implications is that the coefficient in a regression of...
Tags: alphA, bank, Campbell, CIA, coefficient, Cook, FINANCE, Hamilton, Hansen, Investment, liquidity, M., Robert, Simon
Research articles 2008-04-01
Self-policing in a targeted enforcement regime
1. Introduction There is an on-going debate in both the theoretical and empirical literature about the effectiveness of self-policing policies such as the Environmental Protection Agency's EPA Audit Policy. The EPA consistently publicizes the Audit Policy as a successful, innovative approach to compliance. For example, the introduction to EPA's...
Tags: alphA, audit, auditing, compliance, Environmental, FINANCE, regulator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2008-04-01
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