On Tuesday, Shares of The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), gained 1.53% to $18.64.
Western Union Company, celebrated its 20th anniversary in Africa. With over 34,000 locations and connections to millions of bank accounts and mobile wallets in more than 50 countries and territories, across Africa, the Western Union network serves millions of senders and receivers with a choice of 120 currencies.
To celebrate this special milestone, Western Union’s President for Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and CIS, Jean Claude Farah, in addition to Aida Diarra, Western Union’s Regional Vice President and Head of Africa and other members of the Africa leadership team visited the first agent location at ADB (Agricultural Development Bank) that offered Western Union money transfer services for the first time in Africa in 1995. The WU leadership team also visited Ecobank head office in Accra and marked the occasion with the launch of the Account Based Money Transfer services through ATM in Ghana.
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.
Shares of Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STLD), inclined 5.36% to $20.06, during its last trading session.
Steel Dynamics, declared second quarter 2015 adjusted net income of $53 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, and adjusted operating income of $120 million, which excludes the following items:
- Not taking into account non-controlling interests, about $29 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, of expenses associated with the second quarter 2015 long-term idle of company’s Minnesota Operations. These costs comprise non-cash inventory valuation adjustments of about $21 million.
- About $9 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, of reduced earnings related to a planned furnace maintenance outage at Iron Dynamics that generally is required once every five years.
Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, manufactures and sells steel products, processes and sells recycled ferrous and nonferrous metals, and fabricates and sells steel joist and decking products in the United States and internationally.
Finally, Columbia Pipeline Group Inc (NYSE:CPGX), ended its last trade with 2.11% gain, and closed at $29.49.
Columbia Pipeline Group, approved a quarterly dividend payment of 12.5 cents per share, payable August 20, 2015, to common stockholders of record at the close of business July 31, 2015.
This will be the first dividend payment made by CPG following the company’s separation from NiSource Inc. (NI), which was accomplished on July 1, 2015, and is compriseent with the company’s intention to enhance the combined dividend declared on May 12.
Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, owns, operates, and develops a portfolio of pipelines, storage, and related midstream assets. It owns about 15,000 miles of interstate gas pipelines from New York to the Gulf of Mexico; and natural gas storage systems with about 300 million dekatherms (MMDth) of working gas capacity, in addition to related gathering and processing assets.
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