Headline News: Stock Splits

• Split plan raises EnCana stock (Denver Post)
  Shares of Canadian energy giant EnCana Corp. soared Monday in the wake of the company's announcement that it will split into separate natural-gas and oil companies.
  
• NuRx Pharmaceuticals Announces Change of Ticker Symbol to NUXP, Reverse Stock Split Now in Effect (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  NuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that on May 9th, the Company's 1-for-4 reverse stock split became effective. The Company has been informed by the Over The Counter Bulletin Board's Corporate Actions group that, in connection with the reverse stock split, its trading symbol has changed from NURX to NUXP.
  
• Japan's NTT mulls 100-for-1 stock split - report (Sharewatch)
  TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Japanese telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plans to conduct a 100-for-1 stock split to eliminate fractional shares, the Nikkei reported over the weekend, without citing sources.
  
• Canadian Stock Index Advances to Record, Led by EnCana, RIM (Bloomberg.com)
  May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's main stock index rose to a record as EnCana Corp. , the country's biggest energy company. soared on a plan to split into separate oil and natural-gas producers next year to boost shareholder value.
  
• EnCana Poised to Rise on Split, Research In Motion on New Phone (Bloomberg.com)
  May 12 (Bloomberg) -- EnCana Corp. may rise, based on bids on the Toronto Stock Exchange, after Canada's biggest energy company by market value announced plans to split into separate oil and natural-gas producers in 2009 to boost shareholder value.
  
• EnCana stock split could spark boom for bankers (Regina Leader-Post)
  Canada’s investment banking community will be hoping to shake off the cobwebs of a particularly slow period after EnCana Corp.’ s announcement that it is to split itself in two.
  
• TSX positive as EnCana announces plan to split in two; N.Y. also positive (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
  TORONTO - The Toronto stock market moved higher Monday morning amid plans by EnCana Corp. to split into two separate companies while Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) announced a new variant of its BlackBerry and new software ventures.
  
• Market welcomes EnCana plan to split (Fort McMurray Today)
  Jumps in the stock prices for EnCana this morning is a good indicator news of the company’s intention to split into two distinct energy companies is being well received.
  
• Japan's NTT plans 100-for-1 stock split-source (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
  TOKYO, May 10 - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp plans to conduct a 100-for-1 stock split to eliminate fractional shares before electronic stock certificates are introduced next year, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday.
  
• Stifel Financial profit up 63 pct on added Ryan Beck business; stock split OK'd; shares surge (Canadian Business)
  May 12, 2008 - 10:55 a.m. ST. LOUIS (AP) - Stifel Financial Corp.'s profit jumped 62 percent in the first quarter as the investment bank added business from acquired companies, the company said early Monday.