During Monday’s Current trade, Shares of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE:FCAU), gain 1.85% to $14.27.
FCA US named Ryan Talbott Chief Information Officer for its NAFTA region. In addition, Talbott will be responsible for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the Company’s APAC region, where he oversees the regional team. The appointment is effective right away.
Talbott replaces Scott Sandschafer who has decided to leave the company to pursue other interests.
Talbott joined FCA US in 2010 and has held a series of positions in the Company’s ICT department. Formerly, he was with Accenture where he focused on technology implementation for various clients.
Talbott holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an automotive group, designs, engineers, manufactures, distributes, and sells vehicles and components. It offers passenger cars, light trucks, and light commercial vehicles under the Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Lancia, and Ram brand names, in addition to after-sales services and parts under the Mopar brand name.
Shares of Allergan PLC (NYSE:AGN), declined -2.64% to $280.12, during its current trading session.
Allergan plc (AGN), a leading global specialty pharmaceutical company, declared a multi-year research partnership with Humana Inc. (HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, to explore new ideas and ways to improve the health and well-being of patients, members and their caregivers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Allergan and Humana will initially focus on the following initiatives:
- Variety of Diseases– Improving health of patients with central nervous system conditions, counting Alzheimer’s disease, in addition to glaucoma and other eye diseases with opportunities to expand into other therapeutic areas as the partnership progresses.
- Patient/Caregiver Relationship– Obtain a clearer picture of the attributes associated with caregiver burden from the caregiver perspective, and how self-stated caregiver burden relates to healthcare-related utilization and costs.
- Interventional Research –Conduct research based on interventional practices and predictive analytics, with a focus on treatment adherence, to ensure patients obtain the right medications at the right time.
On other hand, Allergan (NYSE:AGN) had its price objective cut by Raymond James to $289.00 in a research report released on Tuesday, MarketBeat.Com reports. They presently have an outperform rating on the stock.
Allergan plc develops, manufactures, and distributes generic, branded, biosimilar, and over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical products. It operates in three segments: North American Brands, North American Generics and International, and Anda Distribution.
PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL), during its Monday’s current trading session gained 0.39% to $33.17.
PPL Electric Utilities and the advocates and interest groups who intervened in the company’s rate proceeding have reached a settlement that would enhance delivery rates and assist fund additional reliability improvements.
The company will use the raised funding to continue its work to prevent power outages for the 3 million people who depend on PPL for safe and reliable electric service.
If approved, the settlement would mean a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month who does not shop for electricity supply would see an enhance of about $7.55 a month. Their bill would enhance from the current $147.31 per month to $154.86.
The majority of the company’s residential customers – about 65 percent of them – uses less electricity and would have a smaller enhance in their monthly bills.
There would be no enhance in the fixed-charge portion of residential customer bills. PPL Electric Utilities would receive an overall enhance in annual revenues of $124 million.
PPL Electric Utilities will continue to invest in smart grid technology, new power lines and substations, continued tree trimming activities and stronger poles and wires – all aimed at preventing outages from storms and other causes. The investments are paying off for customers:
- Customers now have 20 percent fewer outages than they did in 2007.
- Reliability is predictable to improve by at least another 20 percent in the next five years because of additional investments.
- Tree-related power outages are down 18 percent contrast to the average of the previous 10 years. Trees are the biggest cause of power outages in storms.
On other hand, PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL) last issued a dividend declaration on 2015-08-03. The company informed investors that they would receive a payout in the amount of $0.3775 per share for shareholders of record on 2015-09-10, payable on 2015-10-01. The stock would then trade ex-dividend on 2015-09-08.
PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL) has paid out $1.495 per share in dividends over the past year. In the year prior, the company issued $1.47 to its stock holders, or a 1.3605% difference. In looking at the long term dividend history, on average over the past five years, PPL Corporation has paid out $1.44 to shareholders annually. This represents 1.5457% growth over that time period.
PPL Corporation, a utility company, delivers electricity and natural gas in the United States and the United Kingdom. It serves 321,000 natural gas and 397,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties; and 543,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and 5 counties in Virginia.
Finally, Liberty Global, (NASDAQ:LBTYK), gained 1.44%, to $42.99.
Liberty Global plc ( LBTYA) declared the winners of its 2015 Vendor Awards at the Liberty Global Technology Summit at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on September 16. Senior executives from more than a hundred key vendor partners attended the event together with Liberty Global’s administration teams in the areas of technology, IT, product development and procurement.
Liberty Global recognized its partners’ achievements in five categories: Best Product & Service Quality, Best Support & After Sales, Best Innovation & Breakthrough, Most Sustainable Supplier and PartnerSpark.
The award for Best Product & Service Quality was won by Huawei, the Best Support & After Sales award was won by Prodapt, the award for Best Innovation & Breakthrough went to Alcatel Lucent and the Most Sustainable Supplier award was won by Cisco. The award for PartnerSpark was handed out to Dell. Spark is Liberty Global’s innovation initiative designed to source and refine ideas in response to real business challenges by tapping into the collective creativity of its employees and suppliers.
Liberty Global plc, together with its auxiliaries, provides video, broadband Internet, fixed-line telephony, and mobile services in Europe, Chile, Puerto Rico, and internationally.
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