On Friday, Shares of BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT), gained 1.80% to $35.68.
BB&T Corporation, declared Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kelly S. King spoke at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in New York, on Sept. 16, 2015.
BB&T Corporation operates as a financial holding company that provides various banking and trust services for retail and commercial clients. It operates in six segments: Community Banking, Residential Mortgage Banking, Dealer Financial Services, Specialized Lending, Insurance Services, and Financial Services.
Shares of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSK), declined -0.23% to $57.02, during its last trading session.
Thousands of Californians have been influenced by the devastating California fires counting some of Comcast’s customers, employees and their families. To aid those influenced, Comcast has opened its XFINITY WiFi hotspots called Comcast Cares throughout the affected areas to anyone who needs them. In addition, hundreds of Comcast employees have volunteered to assist emergency personnel to meet the needs of the community. One technician (who is also a volunteer firefighter) has been battling the blaze alongside fire officials for weeks. Comcast’s local offices are collecting clothes, blankets and toiletries to take to the evacuees as well.
“Northern and Central California is home to many of our customers and employees. Comcast is committed to giving those affected by this devastation the resources needed to access emergency services,” said Hank Fore, Regional Senior Vice President for Comcast California. “We are happy to give our employees, our customers and the greater community our support in addition to volunteer efforts to care for those in need.”
Connectivity is paramount during a crisis and following its aftermath. Comcast employees have been monitoring phone and Internet services to ensure reliability for emergency personnel as they respond to the devastation. Keeping firefighters connected to their command centers is a precedingity in addition to offering comfort to those who were forced to evacuate.
Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. It operates through Cable Communications, Cable Networks, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks segments.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA), lost -1.10% to $26.13.
At the recent European Coatings Conference on Automotive Coatings on September 24 and 25 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Dr. Klemens Bartmann, Global Technology Director at Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), a leading supplier of liquid and powder coatings, talked about how recently’s advanced automotive coatings can favorably affect vehicle performance and fuel economy, benefitting both drivers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The conference focused on automotive performance beyond the engine and how modern coatings can contribute to performance.
Bartmann’s presentation, titled Between Standardisation and Differentiation: How Advanced Coating Solutions Meet OEM Market Trends, examined three challenges and solutions for the OEM market: lightweight body materials and low-bake systems, process cost reduction with Axalta’s Harmonised Coatings Technologies™, and color differentiation and the role of high chroma colors.
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd., through its auxiliaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes high performance coatings products primarily for the transportation industry. It operates through two segments, Performance Coatings and Transportation Coatings.
Finally, Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYK), ended its last trade with -0.54% loss, and closed at $44.47.
Liberty Global plc, 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. The company offers various residential services, counting video services comprising basic and premium programming, which can be viewed on the television and Internet connected devices; electronic programming guide, high definition (HD) channels, digital video recorder (DVR), and HD DVR services; video-on-demand, set-top boxes, pay-per-view programming, and programming in three-dimensional format services, in addition to television applications that allow access to programming on laptops, smartphones, and tablets; and entertainment, sports, movies, documentaries, lifestyles, news, adult, children, and ethnic and foreign channels.
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