Bidz.com, Inc. Provides Stock Buy-back Program Update (Centre Daily Times) - Bidz.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDZ) announced today that as of August 19, 2008, the Company has repurchased a total of approximately 1.16 million shares of its common stock in the open market for a total of approximately $10 million, at an average price of $8.69 per share. After the Company successfully retires all of the shares it has repurchased to date, the total number of issued and outstanding ...

Charles & Colvard Announces Receipt of Notice of Non-Compliance with NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market Listing ... (Centre Daily Times) - Charles & Colvard, Ltd., (NASDAQ: CTHR), the sole source of moissanite, a created jewel available for use in fine jewelry, announced that it received a notice on August 18, 2008 from the Listing Qualifications division of the NASDAQ Stock Market indicating that the Company's common stock is subject to potential delisting from the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market because, for the last 30 ...

Bidz.com, Inc. Provides Stock Buy-back Program Update (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - CULVER CITY, Calif.----Bidz.com, Inc. announced today that as of August 19, 2008, the Company has repurchased a total of approximately 1.16 million shares of its common stock in the open market for a total of approximately $10 million, at an average price of $8.69 per share.

Market Pulse Announces Its Hot Stock Alerts for Monday, August 18, 2008: PRRY, ORCL, MITI, GM (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) - Market Pulse is pleased to introduce our featured stock, Planet Resource Recovery Inc., to the investment community! Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. is new to Market Pulse and is poised to become a significant player in the petrochemical/oil services industry! Planet Resource Recovery just had excellent news out in a press release before today's opening bell announcing an update on collaboration ...

Botswana: Company Results Drive Stock Market (AllAfrica.com) - Investors' strong expectations of healthy profit margins for the listed financial sector firms continue to push the DCI to greater heights on the Botswana Stock Exchange.

Zongshen PEM Power Systems Inc. to Commence Trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - Zongshen PEM Power Systems Inc. , announced today that its common shares have been conditionally approved for listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is expected to commence trading on or about Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at the market opening under the symbol "ZPP".

UPDATE:ENRC Sees Ferrochrome Market Rise 4Q;Crimped Until End 09 (Nasdaq) - LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The stainless steel and ferrochrome markets are expected to recover in the fourth quarter of this year but growth will remain limited until the end of 2009 due to a weaker global economy, U.K.-listed Kazakh miner Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC.LN) said Thursday.

Brisam Corp. Provides Corporate Update (Centre Daily Times) - Brisam Corporation (Grey Market: BSMP) in its continuing efforts to furnish the investing public and its stockholders with current information has disclosed updated corporate information.

UPDATE: Babcock & Brown CEO To Step Down, Stock Tumbles (Nasdaq) - HONG KONG (Dow Jones) -- Australian infrastructure fund management group Babcock & Brown Ltd. said Thursday that its Chief Executive Officer Phil Green, and Chairman and founder James Babcock, would resign, sending the firm's Sydney- listed shares down sharply.

Oncothyreon announces receipt of notice of non-compliance with market value of listed securities standard for listing ... (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - Oncothyreon Inc. announced today that it received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market on August 14, 2008 indicating that Oncothyreon does not comply with the requirements for continued listing on The NASDAQ Global Market because it does not meet the maintenance standard that specifies, among other things, that the market value of Oncothyreon's common stock be at least $50 million as required ...