On Thursday, Shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), gained 2.02% to $2.52.
Advanced Micro Devices, ushered in a new era of PC gaming, unveiling its line of next-generation AMD Radeon™ graphics cards at a live webcast held in Los Angeles and broadcast to thousands of gamers around the world, joined by industry giants Microsoft®, EA and Oculus. The AMD next-generation graphics cards mark a technology turning point in PC gaming, bringing super high resolutions, exceptional VR experiences, smoother gameplay, support for new, advanced APIs like DirectX® 12 and Vulkan™, and groundbreaking form factors to gamers everywhere through a top-to-bottom line of GPUs that fit virtually every need and budget.
“With our next-generation Radeon™ graphics line-up, AMD is enabling a spectrum of innovation that can benefit all gamers. Exceptional performance, ground-breaking VR capabilities, new and dynamic form factors, premium industrial design, exceptional experiences in 4K, all built to excel in today’s games and tomorrow’s that harness forthcoming APIs like DirectX® 12 and Vulkan™. This really is a new era in PC gaming, and together with our software and hardware partners around the world, AMD could not be prouder to bring these graphics cards to gamers,” said Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager, Product, Computing and Graphics Business Unit at AMD.
“DirectX® 12 represents an exciting new era of gaming performance, flexibility and image quality for Windows based devices,” said Kam VedBrat, Group Program Manager, Graphics for Microsoft. “Recently we join AMD in celebrating the unveiling of AMD Radeon™ R7 and R9 300 series GPUs, AMD’s third generation of DirectX® 12-ready products ready to deliver incredible gaming with the Graphics Core Next architecture.”
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company’s products primarily comprise x86 microprocessors as an accelerated processing unit (APU), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products.
Shares of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), inclined 0.45% to $53.59, during its last trading session.
The Dow Chemical Company, and the Smithsonian Science Education Center declared they will collaborate on The Dow Smithsonian Teacher Scholar Program. The program is designed to enhance teachers’ skills related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education by providing tools, resources and new learning experiences in fields such as earth history, biodiversity or energy.
The 6-day program will host 32 teachers in Washington, D.C. and is part of the Smithsonian Science Education Academies for Teachers (SSEATs). After the experience, participants will take their excitement and new skills back to the classroom, while receiving continued support from local peer participants and the Dow STEM Ambassador program. STEM Ambassadors support teachers and inspire students by providing real life examples to make challenging concepts easier to understand, while incorporating a strong focus on sharing exciting opportunities accessible through pursuing STEM careers.
Each teacher will take part in one of three programs focused on specific STEM related themes:
- Biodiversity, June 14-19
- Energy’s Innovations and Implications, July 12-17
- Earth’s History and Global Change, July 26-31
The Dow Chemical Company manufactures and supplies products that are used primarily as raw materials in the manufacture of customer products and services worldwide. It operates through Agricultural Sciences, Consumer Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions, Performance Materials & Chemicals, and Performance Plastics segments.
Finally, U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), ended its last trade with 0.31% gain, and closed at $44.78.
The Board of Directors of U.S. Bancorp, has approved a 4.1 percent enhance in the dividend rate on U.S. Bancorp common stock to $1.02 on an annualized basis, or $0.255 on a quarterly basis, payable July 15, 2015, to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.
In March, U.S. Bancorp declared that the Federal Reserve did not object to the Company’s capital distribution plan covering the five fiscal quarters ending June 30, 2016, counting today’s 4.1 percent dividend enhance and the formerly declared $3.022 billion share repurchase plan.
The Board of Directors has also declared the following:
- A regular quarterly dividend of $884.722 per share (equivalent to $8.84722 per depositary share) on U.S. Bancorp’s Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, payable July 15, 2015, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.
- A regular quarterly dividend of $221.18 per share (equivalent to $0.22118 per depositary share) on U.S. Bancorp’s Series B Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, payable July 15, 2015, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.
- A regular quarterly dividend of $406.25 per share (equivalent to $0.40625 per depositary share) on U.S. Bancorp’s Series F Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, payable July 15, 2015, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.
- A regular quarterly dividend of $375.00 per share (equivalent to $0.37500 per depositary share) on U.S. Bancorp’s Series G Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, payable July 15, 2015, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.
- A regular quarterly dividend of $321.88 per share (equivalent to $0.32188 per depositary share) on U.S. Bancorp’s Series H Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, payable July 15, 2015, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.
U.S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company, provides a range of financial services in the United States. It offers depository services, which comprise checking accounts, savings accounts, and time certificate contracts; and lending services, such as traditional credit products, in addition to credit card services, leasing, financing and import/export trade, asset-backed lending, agricultural finance, and other products.
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