Prices may range far from their closing NASDAQ prices, with wider bid-ask spreads.

FORBES: Electronics Communications Networks (ECNs)

Two dozen biotechs have announced layoffs in the last two months, while others are closing down nonessential programs in a desperate bid to survive.

FORBES: Biotech Blues

Lo and behold, along came Blackstone Group with a bid offering a 40% premium to the closing price.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The bid price is 6.6% higher than the closing price on 30 December, the last business day before the two companies confiirmed they were in talks.

BBC: Thomson-CSF seals Racal deal

Samsung's bid represents an 80% premium to SanDisk's Monday closing price.

FORBES: Memory Madness

The offer represents a 34.2% premium to The Body Shop's closing price of 223.5 pence on 21 February, the last day prior to press speculation of a possible bid.

BBC: NEWS | Business | Body Shop agrees L'Oreal takeover