In a regulatory filing, Bed Bath & Beyond disclosed that its CFO Gustavo Arnal bought 20K shares of common stock on April 16th in a total transaction size of $509K, boosting his stake by about 7%.

This is the first rise in holdings on March 29th.

Atlantic Power "announced that it has obtained a final court order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving its previously announced arrangement with certain affiliates of infrastructure funds managed by I Squared Capital Advisors LLC. The previously announced transaction with the Purchasers remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, including approval of the holders of the Company's convertible debentures, certain remaining regulatory approvals and third-party consents, and other customary closing conditions. As previously disclosed, the parties intend to close the Transaction without the approval of the holders of the Convertible Debentures unless a sufficient number of Convertible Debentures are voted in favor of the Transaction as currently structured. The parties are continuing to work through the steps required to do so and additional details will be provided once these steps are substantially finalized."

Eisai (ESALY) and Biogen (BIIB) "announced the publication of an article, A Randomized, Double-Blind Phase 2b Proof of Concept Clinical Trial in Early Alzheimer's Disease with Lecanemab, an Anti-Abeta Protofibril Antibody, in the peer-reviewed journal Alzheimer's Research and Therapy. The manuscript describes results from Study 201, a Phase 2b proof-of-concept clinical trial that explored the impact of treatment with lecanemab on reducing brain amyloid beta and clinical decline. The manuscript concluded that the pre-specified analysis showed consistent reduction of clinical decline across several clinical and biomarker endpoints at the highest doses, which the Phase 3 clinical trial Clarity AD aims to confirm. The results of Study 201 were presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference and Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease in 2018. The lecanemab Clarity AD Phase 3 clinical trial completed enrollment last month with 1,795 symptomatic patients with early Alzheimer's disease. Clarity AD is a placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group, 18-month study with an open-label extension phase designed to confirm safety and efficacy of lecanemab in subjects with early AD. Additionally, the Phase 3 AHEAD 3-45 clinical study is currently exploring lecanemab in individuals with preclinical AD, defined as patients that are clinically asymptomatic, but have intermediate or elevated brain Abeta levels."

In a regulatory filing, Mack-Cali Realty disclosed that its director Akiva Katz bought 240K shares of common stock on April 15th in a total transaction size of $3.76M, boosting his stake by about 7%.

SI-Bone announced the appointment of Anshul Maheshwari as the company's Chief Financial Officer effective April 20, 2021, and the addition of Helen Loh and Laura Francis to its Board of Directors effective April 18, 2021. The appointment of Maheshwari completes the recently announced senior leadership transition which includes Laura Francis succeeding Jeff Dunn as Chief Executive Officer, and Tony Recupero becoming President, Commercial Operations. Jeff Dunn will remain with the company as Executive Chairman. "Anshul is an experienced finance executive with an impressive record of building high performance finance teams to scale in global, high growth organizations," said Laura Francis, Chief Executive Officer. "His industry expertise and relationships within the investment community will strengthen our leadership team as we execute our strategy to invest in future growth."

The company states: "Amcor is pleased to announce a strategic investment in ePac Flexible Packaging, a leader in the high quality, short run length digital printing segment for flexible packaging. The investment will range between approximately $10M to $15M, including a minority ownership interest in ePac Holdings LLC and funding for one or more ePac sites."

The board of directors of Whirlpool has authorized an additional $2B share repurchase program. The new authorization is in addition to the $531M unused portion of the previous program as of December 31, 2020. The company's board of directors also approved a 15c increase in the quarterly dividend on the company's common stock to $1.40 per share from $1.25 per share. The dividend is payable June 15 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 21.

Sterling Bancorp announced that the company has entered into the final settlement agreement settling the securities class action lawsuit, Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System v. Sterling Bancorp, Inc., et al, Case No. 5:20-cv-10490-JEL-EAS, pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. This action alleged violations of the federal securities laws, primarily with respect to disclosures concerning the Bank's residential lending practices that were made in the Company's registration statement and prospectus for its initial public offering, in subsequent press releases, in periodic and other filings with the SEC and during earnings calls. The agreement provides for a single $12.5M cash payment in exchange for the release of all of the defendants from all alleged claims therein and remains subject to court approval and other conditions. The full amount of the settlement will be paid by the company's insurance carriers under applicable insurance policies. Thomas M. O'Brien, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commenting on the settlement which remains subject to court approval, said, "This settlement should put to rest one of several difficult matters that arose out of our former Advantage Loan Program and allow our team to continue to focus on working hard to resolve our outstanding compliance issues while prudently managing our credit metrics, capital and liquidity."

Reports Q1 Pilbara iron ore shipments 77.8M MT, up 7% y/y. Reports Q1 Aluminium production 803Kt, up 3% from last year. Reports Q1 Mined Copper 120.5KT, down 9% from last year. Reference Link

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter that data logs recovered so far from a fatal crash in Texas show Autopilot was not enabled. "Moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have," Musk claimed in the Tweet, which came in response to a Wall Street Journal reported that two men died after a Tesla vehicle that authorities believe was operating without anyone behind the wheel crashed into a tree. The Fly notes that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into the crash, according to media reports. Reference Link

Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan announced that the company will be keeping the PlayStation Store operational for PS3 and PS Vita devices after previously announcing that the store for PS3 and PS Vita devices was planned to end this summer. PSP commerce functionality will retire on July 2, 2021 as planned. "When we initially came to the decision to end purchasing support for PS3 and PS Vita, it was born out of a number of factors, including commerce support challenges for older devices and the ability for us to focus more of our resources on newer devices where a majority of our gamers are playing on," Ryan said. "We see now that many of you are incredibly passionate about being able to continue purchasing classic games on PS3 and PS Vita for the foreseeable future, so I'm glad we were able to find a solution to continue operations." Reference Link

Major League Baseball said that the MLB.TV is registering "record" streaming numbers through the first three weekends of the 2021 season. The beginning of the season marked the most-watched 18-day period in the 20-season history of MLB.TV. During the 18-day period from Opening Day through April 18th, fans watched more than 1.34B minutes of live games on MLB.TV, a +12% increase compared to the first 18 days of last season and +43% when compared to the same time period of the 2019 season, MLB said. In addition, total games watched on the league's out-of-market streaming platform are up +22% compared to last season and +35% compared to 2019. Publicly traded companies that broadcast MLB games include Disney (DIS), Fox Corp. (FOXA), Comcast (CMCSA), and AT&T (T). Reference Link

Huntington Ingalls was awarded a $107.19M not-to-exceed, undefinitized contract action for long lead-time material, or LLTM, in support of one Amphibious Assault Ship Replacement Flight 1 Ship. This action will be the fifth increment of LLTM awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries under a contract. Work is expected to be completed by April 2024. FY21 shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $80.4M will be obligated at award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The obligation amount represents 75% of the not-to-exceed price, in accordance with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation limitations on obligations. In accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304, this contract was not competitively procured, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity.