On Friday, Shares of CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME), gained 0.45% to $98.16.
CME Group Inc., declared a third-quarter 2015 dividend of $0.50 per share, payable September 25, 2015, to shareholders of record as of September 10, 2015.
As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, counting futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex electronic trading platform, its trading facilities in New York and Chicago, and through its London-based CME Europe derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.
CME Group Inc., through its auxiliaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It offers a range of products for trading and/or clearing across various asset classes, based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, and metals.
Shares of KBR, Inc. (NYSE:KBR), inclined 0.05% to $18.53, during its last trading session.
KBR, declared that it has received an award associated with the Fort Hills Oil Sands Mining Project. KBR won a reimbursable contract to provide construction services at the facility located 90 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
KBR`s scope comprises onsite construction administration and direct hire field construction services at the Fort Hills Secondary Extraction facility. This scope, which was awarded by SK E&C partner Sunlake, follows KBR`s contract to perform a detailed constructability study for the project.
“We look forward to working closely with SK E&C in support of the critical Fort Hills Project,” said Stuart Bradie, KBR President and CEO. “This is an important win with a key client and is indicative of KBR`s planned commitment to maintaining a noteworthy direct hire offering in Canada.”
KBR, Inc. operates as an engineering, construction, and services company worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Technology & Consulting, Engineering & Construction, and Government Services.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of KB Home (NYSE:KBH), gained 0.84% to $15.66.
KB Home, declared the grand opening of Cimarron Creek in Magnolia, a new community offering a great location, close to shopping and entertainment, and featuring great amenities for residents.
Cimarron Creek is conveniently located along FM 1488, just west of Cimarron Way and minutes from U.S. Highway 45, offering easy access to downtown Houston, in addition to to premium shopping, dining and entertainment at The Woodlands Mall and The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Residents will also enjoy planned community amenities, counting a recreation center, swimming pool and playground. Nearby Lake Windcrest Golf Course offers additional outdoor recreation opportunities.
Homebuyers at Cimarron Creek will have their choice of floor plans that range in size from 2,130 to 3,656 square feet, with up to five bedrooms and four bathrooms. Families with school-age children will be served by the highly-rated Magnolia School District.
KB Home hosted a grand opening event on Saturday, August 15 with crepes from Katmania Crepes, and guests received tickets to the 2015 Texas Renaissance Festival while supplies last.
KB Home operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. It constructs and sells various homes, counting attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, move-up, and active adult homebuyers under the name KB Home.
Finally, Standard Pacific Corp. (NYSE:SPF), ended its last trade with 0.79% gain, and closed at $8.95.
Ryland Group, and Standard Pacific Corp., jointly declared CalAtlantic Group, Inc. as the name of the company that will be formed when their formerly declared merger is complete. The projected merger, which was declared on June 14, is subject to approval by the stockholders of the Company and Ryland and other customary closing conditions, and is predictable to close in early fall 2015. In addition to the name CalAtlantic Group, Inc., the combined company will be identified to consumers as CalAtlantic Homes, CalAtlantic Mortgage, CalAtlantic Title and CalAtlantic Insurance. The new company will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CAA.
“A new name reflects a new chapter in the history of our two iconic homebuilding companies. The CalAtlantic Homes name points to the breadth of the new company’s footprint expanding from coast to coast and all points in between,” said Ryland President and Chief Executive Officer Larry Nicholson. “With similar cultures and long histories of crafting quality homes and providing superior customer service, we share a nearly 100-year combined legacy of excellence.”
Standard Pacific Corp. operates as a builder of single-family attached and detached homes in the United States. It constructs homes for various homebuyers primarily move-up buyers in metropolitan markets in California, Florida, the Carolinas, Texas, Arizona, and Colorado.
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