Education Stocks Drop After Apollo Announces SEC Probe

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) – Shares of companies in the for-profit education traded lower on Wednesday, a day after Apollo Group Inc. (APOL) said the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation informal income-recognition practices.

For-profit universities have been subjected to fire numerous times for its revenue recognition methods, most of which are derived from government loans. Apollo received a letter from the SEC's division of corporate finance in relation to its revenue recognition in February and said in his press conference that "as far as we know," answered all the questions in that division. The current probe comes from the SEC's division of enforcement.

"Some investors have chosen to examine the practices of the company refunds for students and bad debt expenses, which means that this could be the start of a review of industry-wide practice," analysts Wedbush Morgan, said in a note to clients. "We remind investors that it is possible that the problem could also relate to other parts of the business, including charter schools or the company's international operations knowledge."

Apollo, whose University of Phoenix is ​​the country's largest private university, reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates on Tuesday after the bell. But investors and analysts seemed to care little about the results, focusing instead on uncertainty about the government's investigation.

The company's shares fell 16.5% to $ 60.90 in recent trading in more than five times the average daily volume. The shares have fallen 20% so far this year.

Shin Kong Financial Holding Co., Ltd. New Shares

Shin Kong Financial Holding Co., Ltd. announced that it will issue 500 million ordinary shares with a nominal value of NTD 10 per share and a price of NTD 10.60 per share. The company will offer a 15% premium for employees, 75% of existing shareholders and the rest to the public. The company will increase NT $ 5.3 billion placement.

Reconstruction of military dependent communities hampered by the prohibition of sales

In early October, Shin Kong Life Insurance won the bid for an area of ​​1,000 ping residential district located in the Taipei Zhongcheng with a price of NT $ 4.02 million per ping, prompting criticism of the manipulation of land prices by leading business groups. This prompted Wu to the issue of banning the sale of public lands in size over 500 pings.

The National Property Administration in the Ministry of Finance is developing a set of revisions to the rights ROPERTY 鈥 鈥 减? Division of Civil Code for local people to access 鈥 鈥 渟 urface rights? Or the rights to access to housing in a particular state-owned land lot with an area of ​​over 500 pings at a price much lower than the market level over a period of 70 years, on a rental basis.

As the ban on the sale of plots of land along the Ping-500-owned seriously erode the reconstruction of military dependents villages, the Defense Ministry plans to submit a request to Cabinet to ask him to ease the ban .

Qualifications dates Shin Megami Tensei: strange trip for March

Atlus USA hasn 鈥 檛 confirmed Shin Megami Tensei: strange journey, but pretty sure 鈥 檙 and next 鈥 檚 that. First, it 鈥 檚 a game Shin Megami Tensei. Atlus is enthusiastic about the release of the series in the United States. Secondly, Antarctica was chosen as the setting so it would appeal more to an international audience. Another good sign, but not as solid as a leak.

Superstar dump NDF found no Sekai (thanks!) In Amazon.ca lists that Shin Megami Tensei: date 鈥 檚 strange trip launch March 10, 2010. That seems right. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor took about six months to locate. Strange trip came in October to the timeline fits.

After hearing about this leak scanned for possible other Atlus games like Yggdra Unison, Growlanser, Persona 3 Portable, and 3D Dot Game Heroes, but could not find anything 鈥 檛. While continuing the search for Atlus games of chance that could collect, read our impressions of Shin Megami Tensei: strange trip.

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