On Friday, Shares of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), gained 9.80% to $529.42, hitting its highest level.
Amazon.com declared Amazon Home Services (www.amazon.com/services) has expanded the number of providers and the services they offer in 15 metropolitan areas, counting Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Jose and Washington D.C., adding to existing availability in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Amazon Home Services now comprises over 15 million unique services across more than 900 professional services.
Amazon Home Services now offers two ways for customers to shop: custom and pre-packaged services. With custom services, customers can create free requests by simply describing what needs to be done using text and photos and submitting a request to get estimates from local pros. Custom projects can comprise anything from painting a room to home entertainment setup to central air installation. Customers can also select from hundreds of popular pre-packaged services, such as TV Wall Mounting, Basketball Hoop Assembly or Faucet Replacement. Both custom and pre-packaged services are backed by Amazon’s Happiness Guarantee, award-winning customer service and free verified purchase reviews, so customers can rest easy knowing the job will get done right.
Amazon.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates in two segments, North America and International. The company serves consumers through retail Websites, such as amazon.com and amazon.ca, which primarily comprise merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third-party sellers.
Shares of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), declined -0.83% to $45.28, during its last trading session.
U.S. Bank has named Mike Katz market president and head of commercial banking for the Puget Sound region, effective August 1. Katz succeeds Chris Heman, who is relocating out of the market later this summer.
“Puget Sound is an important market for U.S. Bank,” said Michael Righi, senior vice president and regional commercial banking leader for U.S. Bank. “Mike is a community advocate whose wealth of commercial banking experience allows us to continue to demonstrate energetic and thoughtful leadership for our clients and community partners. We are happy to promote and welcome him to Seattle, and we thank Chris for his leadership in building on our legacy and position in the market.”
U.S. Bank employs more than 1,300 people and has 91 branches in the market, counting locations at Sea-Tac Airport and the Starbucks Center. Active in the community, last year the bank committed more than $150 million to the area in the form of community development loans and investments, corporate contributions, and grants, and its employees spent nearly 7,000 hours volunteering with local nonprofit organizations.
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.
Finally, NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NEE), ended its last trade with 0.21% gain, and closed at $102.28.
NextEra Energy declared that it plans to report second-quarter 2015 financial results before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in a news release to be posted on the company’s website at www.NextEraEnergy.com/Investors. The company will issue an advisory news release over PR Newswire the morning of Aug. 3, with a link to the financial results news release on the company’s website. As formerly communicated, the company will make accessible its financial results only on its website.
Jim Robo, chairman and chief executive officer of NextEra Energy, Moray Dewhurst, vice chairman and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy, and other members of the company’s senior administration team will talk about the company’s financial results during an investor presentation to be webcast live, starting at 9 a.m. ET on Aug. 3.
NextEra Energy, Inc., through its auxiliaries, generates, transmits, and distributes electric energy in the United States and Canada. The company generates electricity from gas, oil, solar, coal, petroleum coke, nuclear, and wind sources.
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