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Mon, November 14, 2011
FIF, TTP, GTU, LDK, DGW, ZBPRC, Removed From Naked Short Lists Today
November 14, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net , announced today that these select companies have been After the NASDAQ, AMEX, NYSE, OTCBB and Pinksheet naked short threshold lists. Financial Federal Corp (NYSE:FIF), TITAN PHARMA INC (AMEX:TTP), CENTRAL GOLDTRUST (AMEX:GTU), LDK SOLAR CO LTD -ADR (NYSE:LDK), DUOYUAN GLOBAL WATER INC-ADR (NYSE:DGW), Zions Bancorporation Depositar (NYSE:ZBPRC). For a complete list of companies on the naked short lists please visit our web site. To find the SqueezeTrigger Price before a short squeeze starts in any stock, go to http://www.buyins.net .
Financial Federal Corp (NYSE:FIF) - Financial Federal Corporation (Financial Federal), incorporated in 1989, is an independent financial services company in the business of providing collateralized lending, financing and leasing services principally to middle-market businesses. The Company, operating through its subsidiaries, lends against, finances and leases a range of new and used revenue-producing, essential-use equipment, such as cranes, earthmovers, personnel lifts, trailers and trucks through installment sales and leasing programs to dealers, manufacturers and end users. It provides capital loans secured by the same equipment and other collateral. Financial Federal serves customers primarily involved in the general construction, road and infrastructure construction and repair, road transportation and waste disposal industries throughout the United States.
The Company focuses on financing new or used revenue-producing, essential-use equipment of manufacturers that is movable, has an economic life longer than the term financed, is not subject to technological obsolescence, can be used in more than one type of business and has resale markets. Financial Federal finances air compressors, bulldozers, buses, cement mixers, compactors, crawler cranes, earthmovers, excavators, generators, hydraulic truck cranes, loaders, motor graders, pavers, personnel and material lifts, recycling equipment, resurfacers, rough terrain cranes, sanitation trucks, scrapers, trucks, truck tractors and trailers. Financial Federal's finance receivables are secured by a first lien on the equipment financed.
Financial Federal originates finance receivables generally ranging from $50,000 to $1 million with fixed or floating interest rates and terms of 2 to 5 years. Its finance receivables provide for monthly payments and may include pre-payment premium provisions. The transaction size of the Company's finance receivables averages approximately $200,000. Finance receivables include installment sales, secured loans and leases. The Company also purchases portfolios of finance receivables from financial institutions, vendors and others.
The Company originates finance receivables through relationships with equipment dealers and, to a lesser extent, manufacturers (collectively, vendors), and by marketing its services direct to equipment users to buy equipment or refinance their debt. The vendors refer their customers to Financial Federal and the Company purchases installment sale contracts, leases and personal property security agreements from vendors who extended credit to their customers. Financial Federal also provides capital loans and leases equipment, typically under non-cancelable, full-payout leases. It does not purchase receivables from brokers. The Company also has relationships with over 100 mid-sized vendors.
Financial Federal competes with GE Capital Corp., CIT, CitiCapital and Wells Fargo.There is a failure to deliver in shares of FIF
TITAN PHARMA INC (AMEX:TTP) - Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Titan Pharmaceuticals), incorporated in February 1992, is a biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, cardiovascular disease, bone disease and other disorders. The Company focuses primarily on clinical development of products, such as Probuphine for the treatment of opioid dependence; Iloperidone for the treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders; Spheramine for the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease; DITPA for the treatment of congestive heart failure and hyperlipidemia, and Gallium maltolate for the treatment of bone related diseases, chronic bacterial infections and cancer.
Probuphine
Probuphine is the first product to utilize the Company's novel, ProNeura long-term drug delivery technology. Probuphine is designed to provide six months of steady state therapeutic levels of buprenorphine, an approved agent for the treatment of opioid dependence and pain. In June 2004, Titan Pharmaceuticals announced final results from a pilot clinical study that evaluated the safety, pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of Probuphine in the treatment of opioid-dependent patients. The Company is finalizing a clinical development plan with regulatory authorities in the United States and other countries to commence Phase III clinical testing, which, if successful, could potentially lead to product approval.
Iloperidone
Iloperidone has been evaluated in an extensive Phase III program comprising over 3,500 patients at more than 200 sites in 24 countries, administered and funded by Novartis Pharma AG. In June 2004, Titan Pharmaceuticals announced that Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. acquired from Novartis Pharma AG the worldwide rights to develop and commercialize iloperidone. Vanda is pursuing completion of the iloperidone Phase III development program and initiated further Phase III clinical testing of iloperidone in November 2005. All of the Company's rights and economic interests in iloperidone, including royalties on sales of iloperidone, remain essentially unchanged under the agreement.
The Company competes with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Spheramine
Spheramine utilizes the Company's cell-coated microcarrier (CCM) technology, which enables the development of cell-based therapies for minimally invasive, site-specific delivery to the central nervous system of therapeutic factors precisely where they are needed. Spheramine is being studied in a multicenter, randomized, blinded, placebo controlled clinical trial in Parkinson's disease. This Phase IIb clinical study will enroll 68 patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (Hoehn and Yahr Stages III and IV) to further evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of Spheramine.
Schering AG, the Company's corporate partner for worldwide development and commercialization of Spheramine, is funding the clinical development program for Spheramine. The Investigational New Drug application (IND) filed by Titan with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was transferred to Schering in November 2005.
DITPA
The Company's 3,5-diiodothyropropionic acid (DITPA) is an orally active analogue of thyroid hormone. The Company is evaluating DITPA as a potential treatment for congestive heart failure (CHF) associated with low-serum thyroid hormone (T3). DITPA is also being evaluated in a second randomized, double blind, placebo controlled Phase II study with NYHA Class II-IV CHF, sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program. Titan Pharmaceuticals is also developing DITPA as a potential treatment for hyperlipidemia. In March 2006, Titan Pharmaceuticals initiated a Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate DITPA in individuals receiving standard lipid-lowering therapy, whose LDL cholesterol levels are above National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) guidelines.
Gallium Maltolate
During the year ended December 31There is a failure to deliver in shares of TTP
CENTRAL GOLDTRUST (AMEX:GTU) - Central Gold-Trust primarily invests in unencumbered gold bullion. As of September 30, 2003, the companys gold holdings were 82,619 fine ounces of physical gold bullion and 4,581 fine ounces of gold bullion certificates. The trust is taxed as a mutual fund trust for income tax purposes, pursuant to which it distributes all taxable income earned by it to the unitholders and deduct such distributions for income tax purposes. Central Gold-Trust was established under the laws of Ontario in April 2003; and is headquartered in Ancaster, Canada.There is a failure to deliver in shares of GTU
LDK SOLAR CO LTD -ADR (NYSE:LDK) - LDK Solar Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of photovoltaic products; and development of power plant projects. It offers multicrystalline and monocrystalline wafers to the manufacturers of solar cells and modules. The company also provides wafer processing services to monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar cell and module manufacturers; and sells silicon materials, which include ingots and polysilicon scraps, and other chemicals to produce polysilicon and solar wafers. In addition, it involves in the development of solar projects in Europe and China; and provision of engineering, procurement, and construction services in China. The company sells solar modules to developers, distributors, and system integrators. It has operations in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Xinyu city, the Peoples Republic of China. LDK Solar Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of LDK New Energy Holding Limited.There is a failure to deliver in shares of LDK
DUOYUAN GLOBAL WATER INC-ADR (NYSE:DGW) - Duoyuan Global Water Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of water environment protection equipment and water treatment products in the Peoples Republic of China. Its product categories comprise circulating water treatment equipment, including electronic water conditioners, automatic filters, circulating water central processors, cyclone filters, and water softeners, which are used in the process of treating water and removing buildup in circulating water systems; water purification equipment that use ultraviolet, ozone, membrane-based, and electrodeionization technologies in the process of treating and purifying water for various applications and end-user customers comprising residential communities and commercial businesses; and wastewater treatment equipment, such as grit separators, microporous aerators, and belt-type thickener-filter press mono-block machines, which are used in the process of treating wastewater, such as municipal sewage, and industrial and agricultural wastewater. The companys customers primarily consist of wastewater treatment plants, water works facilities, manufacturing plants, commercial businesses, residential communities, and individual customers. It sells its products through distributors. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China.There is a failure to deliver in shares of DGW
Zions Bancorporation Depositar (NYSE:ZBPRC) - There is a failure to deliver in shares of ZBPRC
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