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Altai Capital Management Continues Adding to MEMC Electronic Material (WFR) Position

Posted on June 18th, 2012 by daniel

Alternative asset management firm Altai Capital Management disclosed through a new Schedule 13D filing today that it purchased an additional 500,000 shares of WFR on June 15th.  This comes after buying 8,769,756 shares on May 29th.  Altai now owns 16,267,736 shares of WFR giving the company a 7% stake in WFR. In their filing, Altai […]

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Citadel Increases Stakes in Cypress Semi (CY) and Hercules Offshore (HERO)

Posted on June 18th, 2012 by daniel

Citadel Advisors LLC, a global financial institution founded by Kenneth C. Griffin, submitted two new regulatory filings (here and here) disclosing increased positions in both HERO and CY. Citadel owned 8,053,942 shares of HERO as of June 12th for a 5.08% stake in the company and is an increase of 3,586,779 shares over what they reported […]

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D.E. Shaw & Co Start New Position in Endo Health Solutions (ENDP)

Posted on June 11th, 2012 by daniel

D.E. Shaw & Co, a global investment management firm founded by David E. Shaw, has disclosed a new position in ENDP through a  regulatory filing. D.E. Shaw owned 5,869,712 shares or a 5% stake in the company as of June 1st, 2012. From Yahoo! Finance, Endo Health Solutions Inc. provides specialty healthcare solutions in the United States […]

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Greenlight Capital Adds to Position in Seagate (STX)

Posted on June 11th, 2012 by daniel

Greenlight Capital, a hedge fund founded by David Einhorn, filed a Schedule 13G updating their position in STX. Greenlight now owns 23,114,026 shares or a 5.4% stake in the company as of June 1st, 2012. From Yahoo! Finance, Seagate Technology Public Limited Company designs, manufactures, markets, and sells hard disk drives for enterprise, client compute, and client non-compute […]

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Carl Icahn Increases Navistar (NAV) Position

Posted on June 8th, 2012 by daniel

Activist hedge fund manager Carl Icahn through regulatory Schedule 13D and Form 4 filings has disclosed ownership of 8,134,626 shares of NAV as of June 7th, 2012. This gives Icahn an almost 12% stake in the company and is an increase of 883,200 shares over what they reported on their 13F filing for March 31st 2012. Icahn is pushing for a merger […]

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