4:20 pm : Two factors to which the stock market turned a blind eye yesterday came back into focus today. A re-acknowledgement of rising yields and rising energy prices gave buyers reasons to break this morning. As Treasuries came under increased pressure and crude hurdled $67 per barrel, investors began to sell. By the close of trade, each of the indices had recovered from their lows. Still, a lack of leadership left the Dow and Nasdaq with losses.
Due to conflicting views over the Fed's tightening cycle, action within the stock and bond markets had been divergent over the
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10:55 pm PT On The Wires : ECC Capital (ECR) announces its intention to file a notification with the SEC on Form 12b-25... First Regional Bancorp (FRGB) announces that it raised $30 mln of new capital pursuant to "trust preferred" transactions involving a newly formed, wholly owned, statutory business trust.
10:50 pm PT Chiron statement on recommendations by proxy advisory services (CHIR) 45.74 : Co notes�that two proxy advisory services have reached opposite conclusions regarding their voting recommendations to Chiron shareholders in connection with the proposed acquisition of Chiron by Novartis AG (NVS). A special meeting of Chiron shareholders will be held on April 12, 2006, to vote on the acquisition.
10:48 pm PT Epicept announces publication of Phase III Ceplene study results for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (EPCT) 3.31 : Co announces that the results from a randomized, multi-center Phase III clinical study of 320 patients with Advanced Myeloid Leukemia in which Ceplene, the co's lead oncology compound for the treatment of AML, met its primary endpoint of increased leukemia-free survival among AML patients in remission, were published online in Blood, a scientific journal in hematology on March, 24, 2006.