10 Major Stock Movers For Monday (AMRN, AMAG, AIB, IRE, NBG, DRYS, NLST, ALU, RYAAY, VOLT)

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Amarin Corporation plc (NASDAQ: AMRN) is indicated up 50% at $5.35, well above the $3.85 52-week high, after its AMR101 met pivotal phase 3 study endpoints with highly statistically significant reductions in triglycerides at 4 gram and 2 gram doses with no statistically significant increase in LDL-C and safety profiles.

AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAG) is soaring after it said that the company has reached an agreement with the FDA to update the label for its anemia drug Feraheme with precautions.  Shares are up 17% to $16.48 on the news, but keep in mind that the 52-week range is $13.75 to $52.49.

Irish banks are cheering the bailout of Ireland, even if these are become more and more government-owned out of the plan.  Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) is up 8.8% at $1.03 and The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) is up over 19% at $1.72.  The National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is far from Ireland, but it has that PIIGS thing going for it.  Help for one, help for all… NBG shares are up 1.7% at $1.75.

DryShips, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is seeing a pop this morning after its Ocean Rig UDW subsidiary signed a contract with Borders & Southern Petroleum for a 2 well exploration and drilling pact in the offshore Falkland Islands area for roughly $77 million.

Netlist Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST) is up after it announced that Compellent Technologies  has qualified and selected its NetVault NV for production shipments in the Compellent Storage Center solution; shares are up 8% at $2.57.

Elsewhere in the world of ADRs… Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) shares are indicated down 3.5% at $2.74 after a $2.84 close on Friday.  Ryanair Holdings plc (NASDAQ: RYAAY) is down about 2% at $29.90 after a $30.48 close on Friday.

Voltaire Limited (NASDAQ: VOLT)  is soaring on a buyout: Mellanox Technologies is acquiring the company for $8.75 per share in cash.  Shares are up 34% at $8.65 to a new high.

JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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