On Wednesday, Voya Financial Inc (NYSE:VOYA)’s shares inclined 0.02% to $41.24.
Voya Financial, Inc. (VOYA), declared the following financial results for the second quarter of 2015:
- After-tax operating earnings1,2 of $179 million, or $0.78 per diluted share, contrast with $213 million, or $0.83 per diluted share in the second quarter of 20143. The following items primarily accounted for this change:
- $8 million, after-tax, of lower adjusted operating earnings from the Ongoing Business
- $11 million, after-tax, higher operating loss in the Corporate segment
- $5 million, after-tax, of negative DAC/VOBA and other intangibles unlocking contrast with $7 million, after-tax, of positive DAC/VOBA and other intangibles unlocking in the second quarter of 2014
Voya Financial, Inc. operates as a retirement, investment, and insurance company in the United States. The company has five segments: Retirement, Annuities, Investment Administration, Individual Life, and Employee Benefits. The Retirement segment offers tax-deferred employer-sponsored retirement savings plans and administrative services in corporate, education, healthcare, and government markets; and rollover individual retirement accounts and other retail financial products, in addition to financial advisory services to individual customers.
Restaurant Brands International Inc (NYSE:QSR)’s shares gained 0.05% to $38.77.
The BURGER KING® brand is owned by Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX,NYSE:QSR), BURGER KING® restaurants are introducing its spiciest product yet, new Fiery Chicken Fries. Accessible for a limited time only, Fiery Chicken Fries are made with the same white meat chicken as original Chicken Fries, flavored with a marinade of cayenne pepper, black pepper and other savory spices that will make your mouth cry.
BURGER KING® restaurants brought back Chicken Fries as a permanent menu item in March 2015 to satisfy the pleas of craving fans on social media. Since Chicken Fries fans are always open to bold, new adventures, and with over half of all Americans surveyed saying they prefer very spicy foods*, Fiery Chicken Fries were developed to create a flavor experience somewhere between pleasure and OM#G.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. owns and operates quick service restaurants under the Burger King and Tim Hortons brand names. As of February 17, 2015, it franchised or owned 19,043 restaurants in about 100 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR)‘s shares surged 2.38% to $63.28.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) announced that the company has implemented minimum stock ownership requirements for its directors and senior executive officers. The goal of these requirements is to further align the interests of the company’s directors and key executives with the interests of stockholders, and to advance the company’s commitment to shareholder-friendly corporate governance.
The new stock ownership guidelines require ownership of the company’s common stock in amounts of six times the base salary for the Chief Executive Officer; three times the base salary for the CEO’s direct reports; and one and a half times the base salary for certain other executive officers. Each director is required to hold shares of the company’s stock in an amount equal to two and a half times the aggregate number of shares and units granted to them under the company’s incentive award plans during the preceding fiscal year.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), through its controlling interest in Digital Realty Trust, L.P., engages in the ownership, acquisition, development, redevelopment, and administration of technology-related real estate. It focuses on plannedally located properties containing applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacenter users, counting the information technology departments of Fortune 1000 companies, and financial services companies.
Youku Tudou Inc (ADR) (NYSE:YOKU), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with 4.46% gain, and closed at $16.51.
Youku Tudou, Inc. (YOKU), China’s leading Internet television company declared a new milestone in its IP-focused pan-entertainment strategy. A popular TV series The Journey of Flower, now being broadcast on the Youku Tudou platform simultaneously with TV, has generated over 1.8 million downloads for its mobile game since its release on June 25 and a record level of revenue for a single game at Youku Tudou.
The Journey of Flower is the latest success story in Youku Tudou’s initiatives to enhance user stickiness and drive value by leveraging a single IP to create multi-format entertainment products. Through its dedicated Cloud Entertainment BU, Youku Tudou is able to connect fans across domains leveraging its position as the leading online video platform in China. The total cumulative views of The Journey of Flower now stand at over 1.1 billion, with more than half of the series still remaining. This is the fastest TV series to surpass 100 million cumulative video views in Youku Tudou’s TV series history. Since venturing into mobile gaming, Youku Tudou now jointly operates over 1,500 games with over 150 mobile game operators and has already driven a total of over 200 million mobile game downloads.
Youku Tudou Inc. operates as an Internet television company in the People’s Republic of China. Its Internet television platform enables users to search, view, and share video content across various devices. The company’s services for users comprise online video content library comprising primarily of professionally produced content, counting television serial dramas, movies, current event reports, variety shows, and music videos. It also provides guided user-generated content through Youku Paike and Youku Niuren programs; and produces a range of content, such as sponsored Web serial dramas, reality shows, interviews, and variety shows under the Youku Originals brand, in addition to on Tudou platform.
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