On Tuesday, Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), lost -0.36% to $125.86.
Apple CEO Tim Cook met with a top Chinese official in Beijing while touring a country that has become the tech giant’s biggest driver of sales growth, state media stated.
Cook met with Vice Premier Liu Yandong in the Zhongnanhai leadership compound Tuesday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. They reportedly discussed how to promote greater scientific and educational cooperation between China and the U.S.
Xinhua said Cook also visited an elementary school in Beijing earlier Tuesday to talk about innovation. A day earlier, Cook declared cooperation between Apple and the environmental group the World Wildlife Fund to responsibly manage Chinese forests and minimize the company’s environmental impact.
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, watches, and portable digital music players worldwide. The company also sells related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.
Shares of Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), declined -1.26% to $8.59, during its last trading session, hitting its lowest level.
Windstream Holdings, board of directors declared a prorated $.15 per share quarterly dividend to Windstream shareholders.
Shareholders of record on June 30, 2015, will receive a cash dividend of $.1104 per share, which represents a prorated dividend for the period April 25, 2015 through June 30, 2015. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2015.
Windstream Holdings, Inc. provides communications and technology solutions in the United States. It offers managed services and cloud computing services to businesses, in addition to broadband, voice, and video services to consumers primarily in rural markets.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Shares of Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE:BTU), gained 0.87% to $4.64.
Peabody Energy Corporation, declared a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock of $0.0025 per share. The dividend is payable on June 9, 2015, to holders of record on May 19, 2015.
Peabody Energy Corporation offers mining of coal. The company operates through Western U.S. Mining, Midwestern U.S. Mining, Australian Mining, Trading and Brokerage, and Corporate and Other segments. It is involved in mining and sale of thermal coal to electric utilities and metallurgical coal for industrial customers.
Finally, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CNP), ended its last trade with -2.24% loss, and closed at $19.79, hitting its lowest level.
CenterPoint Energy, on Monday stated first-quarter profit of $131 million.
The Houston-based company said it had profit of 30 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 33 cents per share.
The energy delivery company posted revenue of $2.43 billion in the period.
CenterPoint anticipates full-year earnings to be $1 to $1.10 per share.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company’s Electric Transmission & Distribution segment offers electric transmission and distribution services to retail electric providers, municipalities, electric cooperatives, and other distribution companies.
DISCLAIMER:
This article is published by www.wsnewspublishers.com. The Content included in this article is just for informational purposes only. All information used in this article is believed to be from reliable sources, but we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, or reliability with respect to this article.
All visitors are advised to conduct their own independent research into individual stocks before making a purchase decision.
Information contained in this article contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, counting statements regarding the predictable continual growth of the market for the corporation’s products, the corporation’s ability to fund its capital requirement in the near term and in the long term; pricing pressures; etc.
Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, aims, assumptions, or future events or performance may be forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on expectations, estimates, and projections at the time the statements are made that involve a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those presently anticipated. Forward looking statements may be identified through the use of such words as expects, will, anticipates, estimates, believes, or by statements indicating certain actions may, could, should/might occur.
