On Wednesday, Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), lost -0.24% to $127.30, despite Consumer stocks extended their earlier gains Wednesday, with shares of consumer staples companies in the S&P 500 rising 0.7%. Shares of consumer discretionary firms in the S&P 500 also were climbing about 0.6%.
Apple, declared News, a free newsreader which lets publishers integrate their stories into a native iOS 9 app. The app has a Flipboard-like interface, and publishers can format articles to resemble the ones on their websites. Several major publishers — counting the New York Times, BuzzFeed, Atlantic Media’s Quartz, and Disney’s ESPN — will provide content for the app when it arrives this fall.
On June 16, Techcrunch stated that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has sought Mobileiron Inc.’s (NASDAQ:MOBL) assist to install apps at enterprises. The tech website quoted Mobileiron CEO, Bob Tinker, who commented that Apple asked its partners to approach Mobileiron to deploy their apps.
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 The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), inclined 1.24% to $80.08, during its last trading session.
Procter & Gamble Co.’s current price to earnings ratio (P/E) is 25. The company also pays a dividend yield of 3.35%. Over the past 52 weeks, Procter & Gamble Co. share prices have bounced 3.9% off a low of $77.1.
Markets opened higher on Wednesday, probably anticipating that the FOMC would not change the Fed’s policy rate. Sentiment shifted during the day and it wasn’t until the FOMC declaration came out in the afternoon that equities finally turned around, according to 247wallst.
The DJIA stock posting the largest daily percentage gain ahead of the close Wednesday was The Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) which traded up 1.25% at $80.09. The stock’s 52-week range is $77.10 to $93.89. Trading volume totaled about 6.2 million shares, well below the daily average of more than 8 million. The company’s stated sale of some cosmetics businesses to Coty continued to stoke the share price recently. 247wallst. Reports.
The Procter & Gamble Company, together with its auxiliaries, manufactures and sells branded consumer packaged goods. The company operates through five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric Care and Home Care; and Baby, Feminine and Family Care.
Finally, American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC), ended its last trade with 0.40% gain, and closed at $19.94.
American Capital Agency, declared that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend on its 8.000% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) (AGNCP) of $0.50 per share for the second quarter 2015. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2015 to preferred shareholders of record as of July 1, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of June 29, 2015.
In addition, AGNC’s Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend on its 7.750% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”) underlying its outstanding depositary shares (AGNCB), equivalent to $0.484375 per depositary share for the second quarter 2015. Each depositary share represents a 1/1,000th interest in a share of the Series B Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2015 to preferred shareholders of record as of July 1, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of June 29, 2015.
American Capital Agency Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company invests in residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprise or by the United States government agency.
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