Hot Movers: National Bank of Greece (NYSE:NBG), Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK), Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras (NYSE:PBR), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), BP (NYSE:BP)

National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) is reviewing second-round bids for its London-headquartered private equity business and hopes to sell it “imminently,” the bank’s deputy chief executive Petros Christodoulou told Reuters.  National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) stock performance was 1.91% in last session and finished the day at $3.73. Traded volume was 2.96million shares…

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Stocks To Watch: Gastar Exploration (NYSEMKT:GST), Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO), Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK), Callon Petroleum (NYSE:CPE), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)

Gastar Exploration Inc. (NYSEMKT: GST) (“Gastar”) reported on 16 June 2014 that it has reached total depth on the vertical pilot hole for its first Utica/Point Pleasant well in Marshall County, West Virginia.  The Simms 5-UH well was drilled to a total depth of 11,410 feet and encountered approximately 92 net feet of pay in…

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Stocks To Watch: Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), Encana Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ECA), Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU)

Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN) on May 8 reported first-quarter results. Total revenues and sales were $1.5 billion in the first quarter, a decline of 2 percent from the same period a year ago. In the first quarter under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the company reported total revenues and sales of $1.46 billion and net…

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Hot Watch List: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE:TEVA), Vodafone Group (NASDAQ:VOD), VIVUS (NASDAQ:VVUS), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP)

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE:TEVA) announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware finding Bristol-Myers Squibb’s entecavir compound claim of U.S. Patent No. 5,206,244 invalid. Teva’s ANDA for entecavir has received tentative approval from the U.S. Food…

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Active Watch List: First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR), Yingli Green Energy (NYSE:YGE), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Fujitsu Limited (OTCMKTS:FJTSY)

Domestic solar power producers and exporters of solar equipment to India, who have been vehemently opposing the Commerce Ministry’s proposed anti-dumping duty on solar panels and cells, have a surprise sympathiser in the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. The Directorate-General of Anti-Dumping, under the Commerce Ministry, had recommended steep anti-dumping duties ranging…

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Hot Alert: IAMGOLD (NYSE:IAG), Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX), Goldcorp Inc. (USA) (NYSE:GG), Randgold Resources Ltd. (ADR) (NASDAQ:GOLD), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)

Now that Toronto’s IAMGOLD Corp (USA) (NYSE:IAG) is drilling at the Monster Lake gold project 45 km southwest of Chibougamau, the property is shows signs of living up to its name. Hole ML-14-108 returned 11.55 g/t Au over 10.47 metres, including 48.90 g/t over 2.0 metres. Hole ML-14-110 assayed 13.65 g/t Au over 3.77 metres,…

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