Morning Movers 12/17: FUN, VLNC, SUPR, WNI, SNIC, AONE Higher; GEOY, EFJI, NANO, YONG, LYG, LDK Lower Dec 17, 2009 10:23AM

Cedar Fair, L.P. (NYSE: FUN) 23.6% HIGHER; announced it agreed to enter into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, a leading global alternative asset manager, for $11.50 per share in cash.

Valence Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLNC) 18.5% HIGHER; today confirmed purchase orders from Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Smith U.S. is the U.S. associate of Smith Electric Vehicles in the UK, which employs Valence's U-Charge energy storage solutions for electric delivery trucks in Europe. Valence will provide U-Charge systems to Smith U.S. during the third and fourth fiscal 2010 quarters, as Smith U.S. continues to ramp up production of its Newton electric truck line at its Kansas City production facility. The total value of the shipments over the two quarters is expected to approximate $1.4 million.

GeoEye’s (NASDAQ: GEOY) 18.3% LOWER; engineers detected an irregularity in the equipment GeoEye-1 uses ...