by MBJ Staff Published: January 29,2012
Tags: biofuels, capital, energy, fuels, investing, investment, investors, loans, plant, REFINERY
COLUMBUS — KiOR Inc., a next-generation renewable fuels company based in Pasadena, Texas, has closed a $75 million, four-year term loan with a lender group comprised of an affiliate of Vinod Khosla and two Canadian corporations owned by certain pension fund clients of Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). “This follow-on investment in KiOR reaffirms the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 27,2012
Tags: building, charges, construction, disaster, disaster recovery, grand jury, hurricanes, investing, investment, investment scheme, investors, natural disaster, rebuilding, scam, servere weather, tropical weather, Weather
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Federal officials say a man in Hawaii has been charged by a grand jury in connection with an investment scheme related to rebuilding projects in areas of Mississippi affected by Hurricane Katrina. A Justice Department news release from the Jackson FBI office identifies the man as 54-year-old Dan Doyle, a resident [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 25,2012
Tags: bank, banking, cellphones, finance, financial institution, insurance, investing, investments, investors, mobile app, publicly traded company, shares, smartphones, stock, telecommunications
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. has closed an underwritten public offering of 10,952,381 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $10.50 per share. The gross proceeds from the offering, before expenses, were $109.3 million. The proceeds from the offering will be used by the financial institution for general corporate purposes, including [...] [...]
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford built a vast fortune through his network of banks and other businesses in the U.S., Latin America the Caribbean, and led a lifestyle befitting a billionaire business magnate. Once considered one of the U.S.’s wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of more than $2 billion, Stanford [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 20,2012
Tags: banking, Banks, finance, financial institutions, investing, investment, investors, publicly traded company, shares, stock, underwriters, underwriting
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. reports the underwriters for the recently announced public offering of BancorpSouth Inc. common stock have exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 1,428,571 shares at a public offering price of $10.50 per share. The company intends to use the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate purposes, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 18,2012
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, financial institutions, investing, investments, investors, public offering, publication, publicly traded company, shares, stocks
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. has commenced an underwritten public offering of $100 million of its common stock. The company said it intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15 percent of common shares sold pursuant to this transaction. All of the shares are being offered by the Tupelo-based [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 16,2012
Tags: athletes, athletics, films, investing, investment, investors, movies, professional sports, scam, tax credits
NEW ORLEANS — Unlike this season’s winning on the football field, current and former members of the New Orleans Saints who bought nonexistent tax credits from a defunct movie studio are likely to come out big losers — perhaps getting back only 15 percent of their investment. The Saints personnel — including coach Sean Payton, [...] [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Regions Financial Corp. has entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell Morgan Keegan & Company Inc. and related affiliates to Raymond James Financial Inc., for $930 million. As part of the transaction, Morgan Keegan will also pay Regions a dividend of $250 million before closing, pending regulatory approval, resulting in total [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 11,2012
Tags: athletes, courts, fottball, fraud, investing, investment, investors, law, ponzi, professional athletics, scam, scheme, sports
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Two people in South Texas face up to 18 years in prison over a Ponzi scheme involving ex-NFL player T.J. Slaughter and other investors. Alan Keith Nelsen and Mary Alice Monteza pleaded no contest in San Antonio to setting up a fake international investing firm. Slaughter in 2009 filed a complaint [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 15,2011
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In May of 2010 we wrote, “For better or worse, the economic future for the next 40 years in southeastern Mississippi will be greatly impacted by the decision of Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz. “ Justices with the Mississippi Supreme Court may be asking now how he came to his decision when he changed his [...] [...]