OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - In response to the continued volatility in the auction rate market, Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC, the investment adviser for Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. (NYSE: TYG), Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. (NYSE: TYY) and Tortoise North American Energy Corp. (NYSE: TYN), is providing updated information about its closed-end funds’ Auction Rate Notes (Notes) […]

PerTOOLS now handles all possible data frequencies. Is this the most flexible time-series analysis tool available?
PerTOOLS today announced the launch of Version 5 of its PerTOOLS Financial Analysis for Excel product. This new version introduces UpScaling and DownScaling functionalities. The tool previously computed statistics using monthly time-series data. However, the enhancements in Version […]

SAO PAULO, Brazil, Feb. 21 - Companhia de Concessoes Rodoviarias (CCR), Brazil’s largest road concession operator, announces today its results for the fourth quarter and year of 2007. Unless otherwise stated, all financial and operating data herein are audited and presented on a consolidated basis in nominal Reais (R$) pursuant to the Brazilian Corporate Law […]

LISLE, Ill. - First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) today provides the following information related to recent developments in the market for auction rate preferred securities and auction rate notes (“auction rate securities”) with respect to the closed-end funds advised by FTA.
As has been widely reported in the financial media, the markets for auction rate securities […]

CHICAGO - Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. today commented on the disruptions in the short-term fixed income market that have resulted in recent failures in the periodic auction or remarketing of certain series of preferred stock issued by many closed-end funds, including the three closed-end funds advised by Duff & Phelps: DNP Select Income […]