Gainers
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) shares climbed 83.4% to $91.52. Pfizer agreed to acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals for $100 per share in an all-cash transaction.
Following the market opening Monday, the Dow traded down 0.65% to 35,736.04 while the NASDAQ fell 0.26% to 15,590.13. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.46% to 4,690.48.
BELLUS Health (NASDAQ:BLU) reported quarterly losses of $(0.29) per share. This is a 222.22 percent decrease over losses of $(0.09) per share from the same period last year. The company reported $4.00 thousand in sales
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Scaling The Peaks
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Gainers
Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCS) jumped 39.4% to close at $9.41 on Tuesday as the company declared a special dividend of $3.50 per share.
BELLUS Health (NASDAQ:BLU) shares are trading higher. The company on Monday announced interim analysis from the Phase 2b SOOTHE trial of BLU-5937 in refractor chronic cough. HC Wainwright on Tuesday raised its price target on the stock.