VICTORY ENERGY CORPORATION (OTCBB: VYEY) "Up 988.23% on Wednesday"
Victory Energy Corporation engages in the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties in the United States and Canada. The company primarily owns interests in the Northeast Glasgow Prospect located in Williston Basin Valley County, Montana, which consists of 1,960 acres; and the Skedee prospect in Oklahoma. It also owns joint venture interest in the Mesa gas prospect in Roosevelt County New Mexico. The company was founded in 1982 under the name All Things, Inc. and changed its name to New Environmental Technologies Corporation in 1985. Further, it changed its name to Victory Capital Holdings Corporation in 2003 and to Victory Energy Corporation in 2006. The company is based in Carson City, Nevada.
GENTA INCORPORATED (OTCBB: GNTA) "Up 29.75% on Wednesday"
Genta Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company with a diversified product portfolio that is focused on delivering innovative products for the treatment of patients with cancer. The Company is developing tesetaxel, a novel, orally absorbed taxane that is in the same class of drugs as paclitaxel and docetaxel. As the leading oral taxane in clinical development, tesetaxel has been evaluated in a broad program of completed or ongoing Phase 2a/Phase 2b clinical trials. The Company has announced that gastric (stomach) cancer will be the lead indication for Phase 3 registration studies. Genasense® (oblimersen sodium) Injection is a modified DNA-based antisense drug that may enhance the effectiveness of anticancer therapy. Genta has completed enrollment in a randomized, double-blind Phase 3 study of Genasense® in patients with advanced melanoma, known as "AGENDA". Final data on survival and durable response from AGENDA, which may be pivotal for regulatory approval, are expected in the first half of 2011. Genta is exclusively marketing Ganite® (gallium nitrate injection) in the U.S., which is indicated for treatment of symptomatic patients with cancer-related hypercalcemia that is resistant to hydration. The Company has developed proprietary oral formulations of the active ingredient in Ganite® that are being evaluated as potential treatments for diseases associated with accelerated bone loss. Ganite® and Genasense® are available on a "named-patient" basis in countries outside the United States.
GENERAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY (OTCBB: GNAU) "Up 40.00% on Wednesday"
General Automotive Company ("GAC") is a provider of original equipment and aftermarket automotive parts, mobile electronics, and related automotive products at multiple levels of distribution throughout the United States and internationally. Through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Global Parts Direct and OE Source, the company focuses its efforts on utilizing its relationships with manufacturers in China, Korea and Japan to bring state-of-the-art automotive parts, accessories and products to automobile manufacturers and major parts distributors in the U.S.
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