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Pre-Market Stocks Recap: American Axle & Manufact. Holdings, (NYSE:AXL), Flextronics International (NASDAQ:FLEX), Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA), Hasbro, (NASDAQ:HAS)

On Friday, American Axle & Manufact. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AXL)’s shares inclined 1.60% to $20.32.

American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (AAM), which is traded as AXL on the NYSE, will hold a briefing with institutional investors and security analysts, news media representatives and other interested parties at 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday, July 31, 2015. AAM will talk about its Second Quarter 2015 financial results in addition to other matters. This briefing may be accessed via conference call or webcast.

American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, designs, engineers, validates, and manufactures driveline and drivetrain systems, and related components and chassis modules for the automotive industry in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, Europe, and internationally. Its products comprise axles, driveheads, chassis modules, driveshafts, power transfer units, transfer cases, chassis and steering components, transmission parts, electric drive systems, and metal-formed products that transfer power from the transmission to the drive wheels.

Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ:FLEX)’s shares dropped -0.55% to $10.79.

Flextronics (FLEX) has further improved its sketch-to-scale service offering with the launch of Flex Pulse, a software-based real time mobile partnership tool providing unprecedented levels of connected intelligence for managing global supply chains.

Recently’s unveiling was held at the Flex Pulse Center, a physical location for groups to collaboratively interact. Located on the Silicon Valley campus of the Flextronics Innovation Center, and within the Flex Customer Experience Center, the Flex Pulse Center monitors all aspects of the Company’s global supply chain, while aggregating and parsing global events that might impact supply chain efficiency.

Under the compelling user experience of wall-to-wall touch screens and flowing data visualizations at Flex Pulse Center, Flex Pulse aggregates and interprets live streaming data from multiple sources, counting Elementum’s supply chain administration applications. The resulting intelligence highlights global variables that may impact or disrupt supply chains, facilitating contingency planning and crisis preparedness and response.

Flextronics International Ltd. provides design, manufacturing, and supply chain services and solutions to original equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company offers innovation services, such as innovations labs for supporting customer design and product development services from early concept stages; collective innovation platform, an ecosystem of technology solutions; Lab IX startup accelerator program; centers of excellence solutions in critical areas; interconnect technology center for printed circuits; and CloudLabs that enables customers to accelerate a spectrum of cloud, converged infrastructure, and datacenter strategies.

At the end of Friday’s trade, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA)‘s shares dipped -0.35% to $95.75.

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) recently declared financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2015 that ended 31 May 2015.

Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Stefano Pessina said, “In just six months since the planned combination that formed Walgreens Boots Alliance, we are startning to make progress in our operations, as we were able to deliver another strong quarter. Our Retail Pharmacy USA division produced a solid enhance in comparable prescriptions filled in the quarter, together with improved retail front-end margins and very good cost control. Our other divisions continued to perform as we predictable. Of course, there is more work to be done as we move forward. The fourth quarter is typically the slowest quarter because of seasonality in the business, while prescription reimbursement pressure continues to impact our pharmacies, making retail margin expansion and cost control as important as ever.”

The company also declared recently that its board of directors has named Stefano Pessina as CEO, effective right away. Pessina had been serving as acting CEO since January. In his capacity as CEO, he will continue reporting to Executive Chairman James Skinner.

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates a network of drugstores in the United States. It provides consumer goods and services, pharmacy, and health and wellness services through drugstores, in addition to through mail, and by telephone and online.

Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), ended its Friday’s trading session with -0.22% loss, and closed at $78.25.

Hasbro, Inc. (HAS) and generationOn, the youth division of Points of Light, declared a global campaign to encourage kids to volunteer in their school, neighborhood, or broader community. Kicking off recently online and with international events starting July 25,in advance of the globally recognized International Day of Friendship on July 30, the campaign uses the core cast of characters from the iconic MY LITTLE PONY brand to teach children about assisting others and the power of friendship.

Hasbro, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, provides children’s and family leisure time products and services worldwide. The company’s product offerings comprise various toys comprising boys’ action figures, vehicles and playsets, girls’ toys, electronic toys and games, plush products, preschool toys and infant products, electronic interactive products, creative play, and toy-related specialty products.

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