Marker Therapeutics Inc (MRKR)

[Doktornolittle]

They did recently post a webcast slide that stated, "Phase 2 trial(s) to start in 2015". The stock was up 17% the next day, and continued up to over 50% within a few days as a direct result. They also stated that one of the phase 2's would include a partner.

So... maybe you are technically right that there was not a promise of a partnership announcement by the end of the year, but there was the promise of a phase 2 starting.

One might wonder if they deliberately dangled that out there to keep interest through the year end tax selloff.