On Thursday, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (NYSE:HOT)’s shares declined -2.55% to $82.71.
Westin Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT), declared the opening of its latest Austin hotel, The Westin Austin Downtown, located in the heart of the city at the corner of San Jacinto Boulevard and Fifth Street. A joint venture among White Lodging Services Corporation, the Harry Whittington family and REI Real Estate Services, LLC., the 19-story hotel, which draws design inspiration from the local music scene, is Westin’s second Austin property, and one of five new openings in North America this year.
The Westin Austin Downtown used HKS Architects, Inc. and was designed by Simeone Deary. Upon entering the lobby, guests are transported to a modern-day oasis where they are met with a 12-foot-tall custom-made art piece comprised of charred wood blocks that come together to form the body of a guitar. Incorporating natural design elements, the lobby ceiling and vertical garden mimic the cutouts of a Dobro guitar, while the ballroom floors allude to prints often found on guitar straps. In keeping with the Austin music theme, the hotel will regularly host local musicians in the lounge area.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as a hotel and leisure company worldwide. The company owns, operates, and franchises luxury and upscale full-service hotels, resorts, residences, retreats, select-service hotels, and extended stay hotels under the St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W, Westin, Le Méridien, Sheraton, Four Points, Aloft, and Element brand names.
Williams Partners LP (NYSE:WPZ)’s shares dropped -2.27% to $44.34.
Williams (WMB) and Williams Partners L.P. (WPZ) plan to declare their second-quarter 2015 results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 29.
The company and the partnership plan to jointly host a conference call and live webcast on Thursday, July 30 at 9:30 a.m. EDT. A limited number of phone lines will be accessible at 888-297-0360. International callers should dial 719-457-2603. A link to the webcast, in addition to replays of the webcast in both streaming and downloadable podcast formats, will be accessible for two weeks following the event at www.williams.com.
Williams Partners L.P., an energy infrastructure company, focuses on connecting North Americas hydrocarbon resource plays to growing markets for natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL). It operates in Northeast G&P, Atlantic-Gulf, West, and NGL & Petchem Services segments.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, KLA-Tencor Corp (NASDAQ:KLAC)‘s shares surged 2.26% to $52.84.
KLA-Tencor Corporation (KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield administration solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries, declared that its board of directors has authorized an enhance in the level of the company’s quarterly dividend from $0.50 to $0.52 per share. This enhance is predictable to take effect starting with KLA-Tencor’s quarterly dividend to be declared in August 2015. This represents a four percent enhance contrast to the preceding quarterly dividend, and is the seventh quarterly dividend enhance since KLA-Tencor first instituted its dividend policy in April 2005. In addition to its regular quarterly dividend, KLA-Tencor also paid a special dividend of $16.50 per share in December of 2014.
KLA-Tencor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control and yield administration solutions worldwide. It provides chip manufacturing products, counting front-end defect inspection, back-end defect inspection, defect review, metrology, and in-situ process monitoring products, in addition to lithography modeling software; wafer manufacturing products comprising surface and defect inspection, wafer geometry and nanotopography metrology, and data administration; and reticle manufacturing products, such as defect inspection and pattern placement metrology products.
Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc (USA) (NYSE:TC), ended its Thursday’s trading session with -10.88% loss, and closed at $0.530.
Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. (TC) has planned a conference call/webcast for analysts and investors to talk about its second quarter 2015 financial results on Friday, August 7, 2015 , at 8:00 a.m. ET . A news release on the results will be issued after markets close on Thursday, August 6, 2015 .
Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. engages in mining, milling, processing, and marketing of copper, gold and molybdenum products in the United States and Canada. It operates in three segments: Copper-Gold, US Operations Molybdenum, and Canadian Operations Molybdenum.
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