Barclays Capital

NETGEAR To Present at Barclays Capital 2009 Global Technology Conference [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 9 hours 57 minutes ago
NETGEAR To Present at Barclays Capital 2009 Global Technology Conference PRNewswire SAN JOSE, Calif...branded networking productsis scheduled to present at the Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference in San Francisco. Christine Gorjanc...

ADC Announces December 2009 Investor Event Schedule [Press Release]
Business Wire | 10 hours 33 minutes ago
ADC (NASDAQ:ADCT) (www.adc.com) today announced its schedule for webcasting at the following conferences in December:

Barclays Capital Acquires Crescent in Joint Venture with Goff Capital [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 14 hours 23 minutes ago
Barclays Capital today announced that it has formed Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC , a joint venture with Goff Capital, Inc., to acquire Crescent Real Estate Equities Limited Partnership (“Crescent”) from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funding II. Crescent is a real estate investment company that owns and manages over 17 million square feet of premier office space, as well as investments in resort residential developments, luxury hotels and Canyon Ranch®. Terms were not disclosed.

Barclays Capital Launches Leveraged Exchange Traded Notes [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 15 hours 44 minutes ago
Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, announced today the launch of Barclays ETN+ Notes on the NYSE Arca stock exchange. These are the first exchange traded notes (ETNs) to offer exposure to leveraged returns linked to the performance or inverse performance of the S&P 500® Total Return IndexSM.

Detour Gold Appoints Barclays Capital as Project Debt Advisor and Lead Arranger for Detour Lake [Press Release]
MarketWire | 6 days 4 hours 23 minutes ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/17/09 -- Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) ("Detour Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC ("Barclays Capital"), as Lead Arranger for the debt financing of the Detour Lake gold deposit (the "Project") in Ontario, Canada. Barclays Capital will provide these services through the Mining & Metals team of its investment banking division.

Vanguard Broadens Bond Index Fund Offerings [Press Release]
Business Wire | 15 hours 10 minutes ago
Vanguard today introduced seven bond index funds with ETF Shares featuring expense ratios of 0.15%. The funds, which expand Vanguard’s bond index family to 12, also offer Signal® Shares with estimated expense ratios of 0.15% and Institutional Shares with expense ratios of 0.09%.1

Barclays Capital Launches GDP Weighted Benchmark Bond Indices [Press Release]
Business Wire | 14 days 12 hours 7 minutes ago
Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC and publisher of leading fixed income benchmarks, today announced the launch of a new family of benchmark bond indices that use gross domestic product (GDP) to weight country blocs within an index. This new benchmark family continues to expand the number of alternative weight bond indices available in the Barclays Capital benchmark index platform and widens the choice for investors beyond existing flagship indices which we...

Universal City Florida Holding Co. I and Universal City Florida Holding Co. II Announce Closing of Their Previously Announced Tender Offer for Their 8 3/8% Senior Notes Due 2010 and Floating Rate Senior Notes Due 2010 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 10 hours 18 minutes ago
Universal City Florida Holding Co. I and Universal City Florida Holding Co. II (collectively, “Holdings”) announced today that UCFH I Finance, Inc., UCFH II Finance, Inc. and they (together, the “Issuers”) have completed the cash tender offer for their outstanding 8 3/8% senior notes due 2010 (the “8 3/8% Notes”) and floating rate senior notes due 2010 (the “Floating Rate Notes” and, together with the 8 3/8% Notes, the “Notes”). The tender offer, which commenced on October 23, 2009, expired a...

Universal Orlando Announces Closing of Its Previously Announced Tender Offer for Its 11 3/4% Senior Notes Due 2010 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 10 hours 17 minutes ago
Universal City Development Partners, Ltd. (d/b/a “Universal Orlando”) announced today that UCDP Finance, Inc. and it (collectively, the “Issuers”), have completed the cash tender offer for their outstanding 11 3/4% senior notes due 2010 (the “Notes”). The tender offer, which commenced on October 23, 2009, expired at 11:59 p.m., prevailing eastern time, on November 20, 2009 (the “Expiration Time”).

Calvert Ultra-Short Income Fund Reaches Three-Year Mark with Strong Performance, Beating Its Benchmark for One-Year, Three-Year, and Since-Inception (10/31/06) Time Periods [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 9 hours 17 minutes ago
The Calvert Ultra-Short Income Fund (Ticker:CULAX) celebrated three-years of exceptional performance, outperforming its benchmark, the Barclays Capital Short Treasury 9-12 Month Index, for the one-year, three-year, and since-inception time periods; and also ranked #1 among 57 funds, in its peer group, the Lipper Ultra-Short Obligations Funds category, as of 10/31/09 since the Fund’s inception on October 31, 2006. In addition, the Fund received five stars by Morningstar (the highest rating giv...

Cogo Group, Inc. to Present at Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference on December 9, 2009 [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 7 days 13 hours 7 minutes ago
Cogo Group, Inc. to Present at Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference on December 9, 2009...Davis, Chief Marketing Officer, will present at the Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference on Wednesday, December...

Actel to Present at 2009 Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference [Press Release]
MarketWire | 10 days 23 hours 27 minutes ago
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/12/09 -- Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced that Maurice Carson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the 2009 Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference, to be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, on December 9, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. PT. A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available.

Pinnacle Foods Group Announces $1.3 Billion Acquisition Of Birds Eye Foods [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 15 hours 37 minutes ago
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC (“Pinnacle Foods”) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Birds Eye Foods, Inc. (“Birds Eye Foods”) from a holding company controlled by Vestar Capital Partners, Pro-Fac Cooperative, and Birds Eye management in a transaction valued at $1.3 billion. Birds Eye Foods is a nationally recognized packaged food company with more than $930 million of total sales and leading consumer brands in frozen vegetables and meals, including Birds Eye®, Bir...

ON Semiconductor Executives to Present at Investor Conferences [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 15 hours 7 minutes ago
ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions, has announced that executives from the company will present at the following conferences:

Legal & General America, Inc. Announces Tender Offer for up to $200 Million Aggregate Face Amount of Eleven Series of Potomac Trust Capital Class A Money Market Securities [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 10 hours 37 minutes ago
...Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal. Barclays Capital will serve as Dealer Manager for the Offer. Persons with questions regarding the Offer should contact Barclays Capital at (800) 438-3242 (toll-free) or (212...