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Pre-Market News Analysis on: Quantum (NYSE:QTM), Two Harbors Investment (NYSE:TWO), First Niagara Financial Group (NASDAQ:FNFG)

On Friday, Quantum Corp (NYSE:QTM)’s shares declined -3.72% to $1.80.

Quantum Corp (QTM) has signed a definitive agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire Columbus Hospital LTACH, LLC (the “LTACH”) http://columbusltach.org/, a company operating a long term acute care hospital in New Jersey (the “Acquisition”).

The LTACH is presently running on a four month unaudited annualized basis of about US$40,000,000 in revenue and about US$13,500,000 of EBITDA. QIIC’s legal counsel engaged independent consultants, Navigant Consulting Inc., to conduct a compliance review which has been accomplished. In addition, an independent external auditor was retained to conduct a financial review of the LTACH, which is ongoing.

Quantum Corporation provides scale-out storage, archive, and data protection solutions for small businesses to major enterprises in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its scale-out storage and archive products comprise StorNext File System software, which provides file sharing, storage, and archive for content workflows, digital libraries, and data repositories; StorNext Storage Manager software that automatically copies and migrates data between different tiers of storage based on user-defined policies; StorNext appliances that offer predictable file sharing and in purpose-built configurations of metadata controllers, expansion appliances, and disk and archive enabled libraries; and Lattus Object Storage solutions, which enable high volumes of data to be accessible at any time to extract valuable information.

Two Harbors Investment Corp (NYSE:TWO)’s shares dropped -0.38% to $10.43.

Two Harbors Investment Corp (TWO) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.26 per share of common stock for the second quarter of 2015. This dividend is payable on July 21, 2015 to common stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.

Two Harbors distributes dividends based on its current estimate of taxable earnings per common share, not GAAP earnings. Taxable and GAAP earnings are predictable to differ principally because of differences in discount accretion and premium amortization, certain non-taxable unrealized and realized gain and losses on derivatives, and non-deductible general and administrative expenses.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on investing in, financing, and managing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, mortgage servicing rights, commercial real estate debt and related assets, and other financial assets.

At the end of Friday’s trade, First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (NASDAQ:FNFG)‘s shares dipped -0.52% to $9.63.

First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (FNFG) named Jeff L. Hubbard to serve as New England Regional President, leading the company’s New Haven-based team of bankers across Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Hubbard joins First Niagara from TD Bank, N.A., where he served for six years, most recently as Regional Vice President, Commercial Banking responsible for managing the daily business activities for the bank in the Hartford region of Connecticut, in addition to expanded responsibility for leading the bank’s commercial, middle market and small business lending activities statewide.

First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for First Niagara Bank, N.A. that provides retail and commercial banking, and other financial services to individuals, families, and businesses.

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