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 financial institution.
BancorpSouth [...] [...]
LAUREL — Sanderson Farms Inc. has filed a Form S-3 shelf Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to register for possible future sale shares of the company’s common and/or preferred stock at an aggregate offering price not to exceed $1 billion.
The stock may be offered by the poultry company in amounts, at [...] [...]
UPDATE …..
Stocks are moving between small gains and losses Friday, giving up an early rally after the government reported that hiring picked up in July.
European leaders are calling emergency meetings and seeking to reassure markets that a large nation such as Italy or Spain won’t become the latest country in the [...] [...]
JACKSON — Cal-Maine Foods Inc. reports net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 of $274.7 million, compared with net sales of $271.2 million for the same quarter of fiscal 2010.
The egg company reported net income of $33.6 million, or $1.41 per basic share, for the third quarter, compared with net income of $34.5 [...] [...]
VICKSBURG — Ameristar Casinos Inc. is buying back approximately 26.2 million shares of its common stock from the estate of founder and former chairman and CEO Craig H. Neilsen for about $457.6 million.
Neilsen died in Nov. 2006.
The casino operator said that the stock included in the buyback represents about 45 percent of its outstanding stock [...] [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Stock futures rose modestly Monday as investors look to extend a rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrial average above 11,000 for the first time since early May.
Traders in recent days have been betting the Federal Reserve will act in the coming weeks to stimulate the economy and drive interest rates [...] [...]
NEW YORK-The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped the 11000 mark for the first time since May, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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LONDON — European stock markets traded in a narrow range today amid signs that the recent rally may be running out of steam due to worries about the U.S. economic recovery. Asian stocks closed sharply higher, however, on optimism over the region’s two leading economies, Japan and China.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading [...] [...]
Parkway Properties Inc. (PKY US) fell 13.78 percent to $17.20, after sinking as much as 13 percent, the most intraday since April 20. The real estate investment trust reduced its annual dividend to 30 cents a share from $1.30 and said it fired J. Mitchell Collins as chief financial officer.
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MADISON — Phosphate Holdings Inc. reported second quarter 2009 earnings of $100,000, or $0.01 per diluted share of common stock, compared to earnings of $35 million, or $4.32 per diluted share of common stock for the same period in 2008.
Net losses for the six months ended June 30, 2009, were $11.5 million, or $1.50 per [...] [...]
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