Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) Surges After Hours; Hill International (NYSE:HIL), Atlas Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:AFH), Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:SMLP), American Eagle Energy (NYSEMKT:AMZG)

Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) is surging in after-hours trading after activist hedge fund Elliott Associates disclosed a stake in the casino operator. In a filing with the SEC, Elliott disclosed it owns 4.99% of Boyd’s outstanding common stock, with a 2.05% exposure to common shares via derivatives. Elliott said its combined economic exposure to Boyd (NYSE:BYD)…

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Stocks on the Move Mid Day: Emmis Communications (NASDAQ:EMMS), Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), BP (NYSE:BP), Sensient Technologies (NYSE: SXT)

Emmis Communications (NASDAQ:EMMS) jumped 4.7% after a federal court rules in favor of Emmis (NASDAQ:EMMS)  regarding dissident preferred shareholders. The judge now orders final judgement in the case. This ends a two-year fight with preferred shareholders who objected to Indianapolis-based media company’s decision to eliminate stock dividends and remove voting rights. Emmis Communications (NASDAQ:EMMS) is…

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Stocks Making Noise After Hours: Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG), National Interstate Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NATL) , PHI Inc. (NASDAQ:PHII), KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE:KKR), Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE:BEE)

Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG), a global agribusiness and food company, has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 per common share, payable June 2, 2014, to shareholders of record May 16, 2014. The company also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.21875 per share on its 4.875% cumulative convertible perpetual preference shares, payable June 1,…

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Afternoon Stocks Watch: APEI; PRGO; MAIN; CSG; NCT

American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) was the target Friday of an investment-rating downgrade by BMO Capital Markets, which cut the stock to market perform from outperform following the online-postsecondary education provider’s late-Thursday release of lower-than-expected Q4 earnings and Q1 EPS guidance that was well below the Street view. BMO also cut its target price on APEI,…

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