Declared stock splits: Pinetree Capital Ltd g 2 for 1.
Stock splits this week: Artesian Resources Corp A 3-2; Astro-Med Inc 5-4; Cleveland-Cliffs Inc 2-1; Cooperative Banshares 3-2; Eagle Bancorp Inc 13-10; Enterprise Bancorp Inc 2-1; Food Technology Services Inc 1-4 rev; Intuit Inc 2-1; Lowe's Inc 2-1; Metro One Telecommunications 1-4 rev; Monarch Financial Hldgs 5-4; UIL Holdings 5-3; Wolseley PLC ADS 2-1.
Annual earnings higher: Euro Tech Hldgs .07 vs .06; Friedman Indus .90 vs .83; Wiley (John) Sons 1.85 vs 1.35.
Annual earnings lower: Air T Inc .77 vs .78; Americas Car Mart 1.39 vs 1.49; Atari Inc loss vs .05; Clinical Data Inc loss vs .75; Flowserve Corp .21 vs .43; Handleman Co .65 vs 1.51; Investors Capital .08 vs .10.
Emerged from Chapter 11: Kaiser Aluminum Corp.
Acquisitions and mergers: Minimum value $100 million; Bain Capital and Blackstone Group -Michael's Stores ($6B); Cullen/Frost Bankers -Summit Bancshares (TX) ($363.5M); Live Nation -HOB Entertainment Inc ($350M); Macquarie led consortium -Duquesne Light Holdings ($1.59B); Peabody Energy -Excel Coal Ltd ($1.34B); Valassis Communications -ADVO Inc ($1.3B).
Called for redemption: Energy East 8.25pc capital securities July 24.
New listings
NYSE stocks and derivatives: Georgia Power Co 6.125pc pf A; Morgan Stanley floating rate pf A.
AMEX stocks and derivatives: None.
Nasdaq Global and Global Select: Kaiser Aluminum Corp; Newport Bancorp Inc; Northeast Community Bancorp Inc.
Removed from trading
NYSE stocks and derivatives: PamAm Sat Holdings Corp; Ohio Edison Co 3.90pc pf A; 4.40pc B; 4.44pc pf C; 4.56pc pf D; Remington Oil & Gas Corp; Salomon Brothers Fund Inc; Savannah Electric & Power 6pc pf; Xerox Corp 6.25pc pf C.
AMEX stocks and derivatives: Citigroup Global Funding 6.75pc ELKS lkd to Home Depot due 6-30-06; DHB Industries Inc; Morgan Stanley PLUS Pharmaceuticals Basket due 6-30-06; Morgan Stanley Russell 2000 Index Plus due 6-30-06; SY Bancorp Capital Trust I 9pc TRUPS 6-30-31.
Nasdaq Global and Global Select: Atlantic Liberty Financial Corp; Main Street Restaurant Group Inc; Manugistics Group Inc; Matav-Cable Systems Media Ltd ADS; Merrill Lynch & Co Inc ARN lkd to the Nasdaq 100 Index; Merrill Lynch & Co Inc ARN lkd to the Russell 2000 Index; NetIQ Corp; RemedyTemp Inc; UbiquiTel Inc; WQN Inc.
Corporate name changes: ITT Industries Inc to ITT Corporation; Sotheby's Holdings Inc to Sotheby's; Yadkin Valley Bank and Trust Company to Yadkin Valley Financial Corp.
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