JMP Securities

SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, mailed to all stockholders yesterday the following letter in connection with the company's December 3, 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The full text of Grubb & Ellis' letter follows: November 18, 2008 Dear Grubb & Ellis Stockholder: We are asking for your support to re-elect three of your experienced and independent directors - Harold H. Greene, Devin I. Murphy and D. Fleet Wallace. Please be sure your shares are voted at the upcoming Annual Meeting on Wednesday, December 3, 2008. It is quick and easy to vote by telephone or on the Internet - or by signing, dating and returning the enclosed WHITE proxy card today. Your Board and management team have confidence in the Company's ...

REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/13/08 -- Host Analytics, a leader in on-demand financial and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced increasing demand for its SaaS CPM suite among global and midsized manufacturers. In all, more than two dozen manufacturing firms have deployed Host Analytics' integrated financial reporting, consolidation, budgeting and forecasting solutions to improve sales and operational performance. Intense demand for Host Analytics' SaaS CPM solutions is being driven by several factors, including current economic conditions, spreadsheet disillusionment, the high cost and low value of traditional enterprise CPM software, and an increasing comfort-level among finance executives regarding the use of SaaS for core applications such as budgeting and forecasting. Several high-profile manufacturers recently selected or have increased their use of Host Analytics. Representative large-enterprise clients include: -- Borg Warner, a multi-billion dollar global manufacturer of engines and transmissions -- Dawn Foods, one of the world's largest independently owned bakery manufacturers and distributors -- ...

JMP Securities downgrades Fuel Tech (Nasdaq: FTEK) ...

JMP Securities downgrades KKR Financial (NYSE: KFN) ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Artes Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARTE), a medical technology company whose product ArteFill(R) is the first and only FDA-approved non-resorbable injectable dermal filler for the correction of nasolabial fold or "smile line" wrinkles, reported that JMP Securities, a leading Life Sciences investment bank, has been engaged to assist the Company in exploring financing opportunities and strategic opportunities on behalf of the Company and its Board of Directors. The Company will also continue to pursue equity and debt transactions to raise additional capital to fund its operations. There can be no assurance that the exploration of strategic alternatives will result in any agreements or transactions, or that, if completed, any ...