On Thursday, Shares of CMS Energy Corp. (NYSE:CMS), gained 0.03% to $33.17.
CMS Energy Corporation, declared a commitment to double the amount of landfill space it saves.
One million cubic yards of landfill space saved is equal to five football fields stacked from aim line to aim line, 100 feet deep.
Since starting the waste minimization program in 1992, Consumers Energy has recycled more than 700,000 cubic yards of material – counting 112,566 pounds of lighting ballasts, for example. That represents more than $14 million in avoided landfill costs.
In the last four years, Consumers Energy’s recycling ratio has averaged nearly 34 percent, which is above the current state average and assists support the governor’s aim of 30 percent for the entire state.
To achieve the landfill avoidance aim in the next five years, Consumers Energy will look for ways to recycle more items and other initiatives to save landfill space. It will find ways to avoid generating material as a waste, review how items they purchase are packaged, and set up teams in local headquarters to brainstorm ways to reduce waste, based on a model used to improve safety throughout the company.
CMS Energy Corporation operates as an energy company primarily in Michigan, the United States. The company’s Electric Utility segment engages in the generation, purchase, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, and various industrial customers in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
Shares of Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR), declined -2.87% to $47.04, during its last trading session.
Continental Resources, declared first quarter 2015 operating and financial results.
Continental stated a net loss of $132.0 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2015. Adjusted net loss for the first quarter of 2015 was $33.8 million, or $0.09 per diluted share.
Production
First quarter 2015 net production totaled 18.6 million barrels of oil equivalent (Boe), or 206,829 Boe per day, a sequential enhance of 7% from fourth quarter 2014 and 36% higher than first quarter 2014. Total net production for the first quarter comprised of 143,511 barrels of oil (Bo) per day (69% of production) and 379.9 million cubic feet (MMcf) of natural gas per day (31% of production). In first quarter 2015, sales volumes totaled 18.4 million Boe, or 204,547 Boe per day, which was below production for the quarter.
Continental Resources, Inc. explores, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas properties in the north, south, and east regions of the United States. The company sells its crude oil production to end users, in addition to midstream marketing companies or crude oil refining companies at the lease.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Shares of Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), gained 0.38% to $74.60.
Medtronic, declared the first in-office implant of its miniaturized cardiac monitor as part of the Medtronic Reveal LINQ In-Office 2 (RIO 2) Study. The world`s smallest cardiac monitor was successfully implanted in an office setting at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, by cardiologist John Rogers, M.D. The RIO 2 study will determine if the Reveal LINQ(TM) Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) procedure, performed in an in-office setting, is as safe as procedures performed in a traditional hospital setting, such as an operating room, cardiac catheterization laboratory or electrophysiology laboratory.
RIO 2 is enrolling about 540 patients in 30 centers across the U.S. in a two-arm, prospective, un-blinded study in which patients will be randomized 1:1 to either receive the Reveal LINQ ICM in an office setting or in a traditional hospital setting. Patients will be followed for about three months and evaluated for procedure and device-related complications, and also for procedure time and resources required to perform the procedure.
The RIO 2 study also is enrolling about 150 patients in 15 centers across Europe, Australia and Canada. This observational study will examine clinical evidence to support moving the LINQ insertion procedure from the traditional hospital setting to new locations within the hospital, or “out-of-lab.”
Medtronic plc, a healthcare solutions company, provides medical technologies, services, and solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Cardiac and Vascular Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Diabetes Group. The Cardiac and Vascular Groups products comprise pacemakers; insertable cardiac monitors; implantable defibrillators; leads and delivery systems; ablation products; electrophysiology catheters; products for the treatment of atrial fibrillation; information systems for the administration of patients with cardiac rhythm disease administration devices; products to reduce surgical site infections; coronary and peripheral stents and related delivery systems; therapies for uncontrolled hypertension; endovascular stent graft systems; heart valve replacement technologies; cardiac tissue ablation systems; and open heart and coronary bypass grafting surgical products.
Finally, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDRX), ended its last trade with 1.23% gain, and closed at $13.20.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, declared its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2015.
First Quarter Bookings Highlights:
Bookings in the first quarter of 2015 were a record $236 million contrast with $223 million in the first quarter of 2014, a 6 percent enhance. First quarter 2015 bookings reflect sales growth of SunriseTM Acute Care in addition to noteworthy contributions from population health administration and Allscripts payer life sciences solutions.
About 63 percent of first quarter bookings related to software delivery and recurring transactions, while the remaining 37 percent were derived from sales of client services solutions. This compares with 54 and 46 percent of bookings attributable to these revenue categories, respectively, in the first quarter of 2014.
Contract revenue backlog as of March 31, 2015, totaled $3.5 billion, which was flat contrast with the preceding-year amount.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. provides clinical, financial, electronic health records (EHR), connectivity, hosting, outsourcing, analytics, patient engagement, and population health products and services in the United States and Canada.
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