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Active Stocks Buzz: Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI), The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), Crescent Point Energy Corp. (NYSE:CPG)

On Tuesday, Shares of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI), gained 0.26% to $3.83.

Sirius XM, will host its sixth annual SiriusXM Celebrity Fantasy Football Draft at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, July 15.

The event features a variety of celebrities and SiriusXM personalities together on stage to draft their fantasy football teams for the 2015 season, and all the fun and entertaining verbal sparring that goes together with the proceedings. Personalities participating in this year’s draft will comprise NBC and Pro Football Focus analyst Cris Collinsworth; actor Dennis Haysbert; actor/comedian Rob Riggle; former U.S. Soccer star Brandi Chastain; Rascal Flatts bassist Jay DeMarcus; actor John O’Hurley; NASCAR driver Ty Dillon; and SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio hosts John Hansen, Pilar Lastra and Lisa Ann.

The event will start at 4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT and will take place in front of a live audience at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe.

Sirius XM Holdings Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides satellite radio services in the United States. The company broadcasts music plus sports, entertainment, comedy, talk, news, traffic, and weather programs, counting various music genres ranging from rock, pop and hip-hop to country, dance, jazz, Latin, and classical; live play-by-play sports from principal leagues and colleges; multitude of talk and entertainment channels for various audiences; national, international, and financial news.

Shares of The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), inclined 0.42% to $19.17, during its last trading session.

The Western Union President and CEO, Hikmet Ersek, was recognized by Business Insider Malaysia, as one of the top ten executives who are transforming the fintech industry.

The list, which identifies executives who are shaping the way money is sent, ranked Hikmet Ersek second. Speaking to Ersek’s global leadership and business contributions to the company and industry, the Business Insider list is quoted saying:

“As the President and CEO of Western Union since 2010, Hikmet Ersek is one of the most powerful people in remittances. He’s a Fortune 500-ranked global leader, which means his decisions have a big influence on cross-border money transfer services. That’s why he’s frequently featured in the media speaking on economic and social topics like globalization, migration, transformation and digital payments, and why he’s a recurring speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative. At Davos this year, he identified mobility, growth, opportunity, and education as the key themes the industry needs to address this year.

Ersek has both grown and diversified WU, adding more than 500,000 agent locations, expanding into electronic and mobile channels, adding business payments, and broadening financial services.”

The Western Union Company provides money movement and payment services worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Consumer-to-Consumer, Consumer-to-Business, and Business Solutions.

Finally, Crescent Point Energy Corp. (NYSE:CPG), ended its last trade with 2.57% gain, and closed at $18.35.

Crescent Point Energy, declared that it has filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, and a corresponding registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System. Filing of the Prospectus is predictable to enhance Crescent Point’s flexibility in future financings and is normal practice for a company of Crescent Point’s size. It is also predictable to assist the Company in expanding the size and scope of its shareholder base.

The Prospectus will allow Crescent Point to offer and issue common shares, subscription receipts, warrants, options and debt securities by way of one or more Prospectus Supplements at any time during the 25-month period that the Prospectus remains in place. The securities may be issued from time to time, at the discretion of Crescent Point, with an aggregate offering amount not to exceed $2.5 billion (Canadian). Unless otherwise specified in a Prospectus Supplement regarding a particular offering of securities, Crescent Point intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of any of the securities for general corporate purposes, repayment of indebtedness and/or the direct or indirect financing of future growth opportunities, counting acquisitions and capital expenditures.

Crescent Point Energy Corp. acquires, explores, develops, and produces oil and natural gas properties in Western Canada and the United States. The company’s oil and natural gas properties, and related assets are located in the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba; and the states of North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, and Utah. Crescent Point Energy Corp. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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