Lockheed Martin: Premarket Trading
(Premarket story updated with Lockheed Martin news and share price information.)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Lockheed Martin (LMT) - Get Report was awarded a Navy contract on Wednesday worth up to $3.6 billion to build 10 warships between now and 2015.
Shares of the company are up 0.09%, or 6 cents, to $68.75 in premarket trading.
Qiao Xing Universal Resources
posted pictures of its newly acquired Xinyuan lead-zinc-copper mine in Chifeng city yesterday. It also said it plans to launch a new Web site in early January.
Shares of the company are down 0.35%, or 1 cent, to $2.84 in premarket trading, as investors take profits.
Chinese digital media company
Focus Media Holding
( FMCN) is buying a 15% stake in
VisionChina Media
(VISN)
for $61 million.
Shares of Focus Media are down 1.01%, or 22 cents, to $21.55 while VisionChina shares are up 0.65%, or 3 cents, to $4.70 in premarket trading.
Last week,
WebMediaBrands
( WEBM) announced its plans to repurchase up to $2 million worth of its common stock.
Shares of the company are up 2%, or 3 cents, to $1.53 in premarket trading.
Borders Group
( BGP) is delaying payments to some of its vendors while it works to refinance its debt.
"As part of this potential refinancing, Borders has determined that it is necessary to restructure its vendor financing arrangements and is delaying payments to certain of its vendors," company spokesperson Mary Davis said in a telephone statement to
TheStreet
.
Shares of the company are down 12.93%, or 15 cents, to $1.01 in premarket trading.
>>Borders Delays Vendor Payments
Clearwire
(CLWR)
Chairman Craig McCaw has resigned.
In November the company was unable to get its partners
Sprint
(S) - Get Report
,
Comcast
(CMCSA) - Get Report
,
TimeWarner Cable
(TWC)
,
Intel
(INTC) - Get Report
and
(GOOG) - Get Report
to invest more money in its network expansion bid in November.
Shares of the company are up 0.38%, or 2 cents, to $5.24 in premarket trading.
>>Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw Resigns
Jackson Hewitt Tax Services
( JTX) announced its plans to operate in over 2,000
Wal-Mart
(WMT) - Get Report
store locations in the coming tax season, which will expand its presence by about 10% from last year's level.
Jackson Hewitt shares are falling 1.76%, or 4 cents, to $2.23 in premarket trading.
>>Jackson Hewitt Boosts Wal-Mart Presence
BHP Billiton
(BHP) - Get Report
may be preparing a bid for oil and gas exploration company
Anadarko Petroleum
(APC) - Get Report
, a report in London's
Daily Mail
said Thursday.
Anadarko shares are up 0.36%, or 27 cents, to $75.86, while BHP is down 1.45%, or $1.35, to $91.55 in premarket trading.
>>BHP Billiton May Bid for Anadarko: Report
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