On Thursday, Shares of PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTCT), surged 5.40% to $70.99.
On April 8, PTC Therapeutics, declared the appointment of Eric Pauwels as Senior Vice President and General Manager Commercial Operations, Americas. Eric will be responsible for the commercial strategy, organizational build out and launch of Translarna in the US, Canada and Latin America.
Eric brings 33 years of global healthcare experience from several top-tier US and global pharmaceutical companies. Most recently, Eric was the Chief Commercial Officer at NPS Pharmaceuticals and President of NPS Pharmaceuticals International. At NPS, Eric built global commercial operations for the launch of Gattex/Revestive and prepared the pre-launch strategy for Natpara, both orphan biological therapies approved by the FDA for patients suffering from rare gastrointestinal and endocrine diseases. From 2005 to 2010, Eric served as Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, at Shire Human Genetic Therapies, with oversight of more than 400 employees in 30 countries and $800 million in revenues. Eric also held global marketing and general administration functions in the US, Europe and China with Shire, Bayer, Fournier and J&J. Eric holds a BSc. degree from California State Polytechnic University.
PTC Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of orally administered, small molecule drugs that target post-transcriptional control processes.
Shares of Tableau Software, Inc. (NYSE:DATA), gained 5.32% to $101.16, during the last trading session on Thursday.
Tableau Software, declared it has opened a French office in Paris. Edouard Beaucourt, designated Country Manager for France, French Speaking Switzerland and North Africa, will lead the Paris office. Tableau opened its first EMEA office in the United Kingdom in 2010 and continues to expand in the region, most recently opening an office in Frankfurt, Germany.
Tableau had tremendous international expansion in 2014. The company reached more than 5,000 customer accounts in the EMEA region in 2014 and more than doubled its headcount to almost 200 employees. Customers based in France comprise banking firm BNP Paribas, French Red Cross and fifty-five, a French agency specializing in data and analytics for marketing.
Beaucourt joined Tableau in 2013 as Enterprise Sales Manager. Formerly he was a Territory Sales Manager, Business Analytics for IBM and also worked in sales at Clarity Systems, Microsoft and Hyperion Solutions.
Tableau Software, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, provides business analytics software products in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers Tableau Desktop, a self-service analytics environment that empowers people to access and analyze data independently; and Tableau Server, a business intelligence platform with data administration, scalability, and security to foster the sharing of data, in addition to to improve the dissemination of information in an organization and promote improved decision-making.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Shares of California Resources Corporation (NYSE:CRC), gained 5.20% to $9.50, as according to Reuters, oil prices reach new 2015 highs after a group of former Al Qaeda militants took control of a southern oil terminal in Yemen.
The oil terminal is a major hub for the Hadramout region, and exports between 120,000 to 140,000 barrels per day of crude oil, Reuters noted.
Brent crude futures for June delivery was trading up 0.79% to $63.82 a barrel as of 3:28 p.m. ET recently, after touching a front-month Brent 2015 peak earlier last day. WTI crude for May delivery was up 0.16% to $56.48 a barrel.
California Resources Corporation operates as an oil and natural gas exploration and production company in the State of California. It produces oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. The company holds interests in about 2.4 million net acres.
Finally, Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (NASDAQ:FCS), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 5.11% gain, and closed at $19.95, hitting its highest level.
Fairchild Semiconductor International, declared results for the first quarter ended March 29, 2015. Fairchild stated first quarter sales of $355.7 million, up 6 percent from the preceding quarter and 3 percent from the first quarter of 2014.
Fairchild stated first quarter net income of $1.1 million or $0.01 per diluted share contrast to net losses of $42.7 million or $0.36 per diluted share in the preceding quarter and $9.3 million or $0.07 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2014. Gross margin was 30.4 percent contrast to 31.0 percent in the preceding quarter and 30.3 percent in the year-ago quarter.
Fairchild stated first quarter adjusted gross margin of 31.6 percent, down 80 basis points from the preceding quarter and 130 basis points higher than the first quarter of 2014. Adjusted gross margin excludes accelerated depreciation related to factory closures. Adjusted net income was $13.3 million or $0.11 per diluted share, contrast to $11.9 million or $0.10 per diluted share in the preceding quarter and $4.9 million or $0.04 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2014.
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets power analog, power discrete, and non-power semiconductor solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Mobile, Computing, Consumer, and Communication (MCCC); Power Conversion, Industrial, and Automotive (PCIA); and Standard Discrete and Standard Linear (SDT).
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