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Wednesday 19 August 2015
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Pre-Market News Report on: Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS), UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC), Capital One Financial. (NYSE:COF)

On Wednesday, Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS)’s shares declined -0.28% to $201.14.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) plans to declare its 2015 Third Quarter Financial Results on Thursday, October 15th in a release that will be issued at about 7:30 am (ET). The press release will also be accessible on the firm’s web site, http://www.goldmansachs.com.

A conference call to talk about the firm’s results, outlook and related matters will be held at 9:30 am (ET). The call will be open to the public.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. operates as an investment banking, securities, and investment administration company worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Investment Banking, Institutional Client Services, Investing & Lending, and Investment Administration. The Investment Banking segment provides financial advisory services, such as planned advisory assignments related to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings, spin-offs, and risk administration; and underwriting services, counting public offerings and private placements of a range of securities and other financial instruments, in addition to derivative transactions reached with public and private sector clients.

UnitedHealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH)’s shares dropped -0.89% to $121.17.

UnitedHealthcare has declared the winners of its “Well Deserved” award, an annual honor given to employers that have implemented innovative, industry-leading worksite wellness programs that assisted improve their employees’ health and well-being.

Award winners offered a variety of innovative wellness initiatives such as bilingual nurse liaisons, free yoga classes, weight loss challenges, incentives such as gift cards and premium reductions, and onsite flu shots and mammography screenings.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, worksite wellness programs “can improve employee satisfaction, reduce stress, decrease absenteeism and enhance productivity.” UnitedHealthcare data reveal that worksite wellness programs may result in lower medical costs and better primary and preventive health care decisions for employees who take part.

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health and well-being company in the United States. The company’s UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; and health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals aged 50 and older addressing their needs for preventive and acute health care services.

At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC)‘s shares dipped -0.04% to $83.16.

Western Digital® Corp. (WDC) declared that Chairman Tom Pardun, 71, will retire after 22 years of service on its board of directors, in compliance with the company’s mandatory retirement-age policy for directors. Matthew Massengill, 54, a former chairman, president and chief executive officer of the company and a director since 2000, has been designated to succeed Pardun as chairman. Len Lauer, 58, chairman and chief executive officer of Memjet and a Western Digital director since 2010, was named lead independent director of the WDC board. The changes will become effective at the company’s next annual meeting of shareholders in November 2015.

Pardun joined the Western Digital board in 1993 when the company’s revenues stood at $938 million. He served two terms as chairman for a total of 10 years and as lead independent director for the six years between his terms as chairman.

Western Digital Corporation, through its auxiliaries, develops, manufactures, and sells data storage solutions that enable consumers, businesses, governments, and other organizations to create, manage, experience, and preserve digital content. It provides hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives for desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), and performance enterprise and capacity enterprise markets.

Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE:COF), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with -0.35% loss, and closed at $80.59.

Capital One Financial Corporation (COF) declared the launch of an integrated campaign designed to assist its small business customers build awareness, compete and grow their enterprises in recently’s increasingly complex and competitive marketplace.

According to a new Spark Business1 survey, one of the top challenges that small business owners face is marketing – with only two in five having executed a marketing campaign in the past six months, despite 70 percent who say they would if they had the resources and capabilities. The Spark Plug campaign is designed to address that challenge head-on – by assisting small business customers enhance awareness and generate new business throughout their local communities.

Capital One Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for the Capital One Bank (USA), National Association (COBNA); and Capital One, National Association (CONA), which provide various financial products and services in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Credit Card, Consumer Banking, and Commercial Banking. The company offers various non-interest bearing and interest-bearing deposits, such as demand deposits, money market deposits, time deposits, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, and savings accounts .

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