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Thursday 2 July 2015
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Current Trade News Report on: Pier 1 Imports (NYSE:PIR), Basic Energy Services, (NYSE:BAS), Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG), RCS Capital (NYSE:RCAP)

During Monday’s Current trade, Shares of Pier 1 Imports Inc (NYSE:PIR), lost -1.60% to $12.29.

Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (PIR) declared that its Board of Directors declared a $0.07 per share quarterly cash dividend on the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock. The $0.07 quarterly cash dividend will be paid on August 5, 2015, to shareholders of record on July 22, 2015. As of June 24, 2015, about 88.7 million shares of the Company’s common stock were outstanding.

Pier 1 Imports, Inc. engages in the retail sale of decorative home furnishings, furniture, gifts, and related items. The company offers decorative accents and textiles, such as rugs, wall decorations and mirrors, pillows, bedding, lamps, vases, dried and artificial flowers, baskets, ceramics, dinnerware, candles, fragrance, gift, and seasonal items. It also provides furniture and furniture cushions that are used in living, dining, office, kitchen, bedroom areas, sunrooms, and patios. In addition, the company offers dining and kitchen goods, and other specialty items. Further, it supplies merchandise and licenses the Pier 1 Imports name.

Shares of Basic Energy Services, Inc (NYSE:BAS), inclined 5.50% to $7.87, during its current trading session.

Basic Energy Services, Inc. (BAS) declared it will release its second quarter 2015 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, July 30, 2015. In conjunction with the release, Basic has planned a conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Friday, July 31, 2015, starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (8:00 a.m. Central Time).

Basic Energy Services, Inc. provides well site services to oil and natural gas drilling and producing companies in the United States. Its Completion and Remedial Services segment offers pumping services, such as cementing, acidizing, fracturing, nitrogen, and pressure testing; rental and fishing tools; coiled tubing; snubbing services; thru-tubing; cased-hole wireline services; and underbalanced drilling in low pressure and fluid sensitive reservoirs. This segment operates 291 pumping units; and 66 air compressor packages, counting 36 snubbing units, 16 coiled tubing units, and 10 wireline units.

Interpublic Group of Companies Inc (NYSE:IPG), during its Monday’s current trading session decreased -1.07% to $19.49.

Weber Shandwick is part of the Interpublic Group (IPG). Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading global public relations firms, has designated Bradford Williams chair of its Global Technology practice. Williams will oversee the practice across regions, counting planned client counsel and ongoing to strengthen Weber Shandwick’s position as a leader in technology. He formerly served as president of the Technology practice’s North America region.

With more than 25 years of corporate communications and marketing experience, Williams has been a catalyst of growth for the North America Technology practice since joining Weber Shandwick in 2012. He also served as acting general manager of the agency’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices in 2013 and 2014, directing major account wins and significantly advancing the offices’ growth. Williams has been instrumental in leading several key client wins and is a senior counselor to a number of the agency’s clients. Under his leadership, the North America region also has deepened its digital capabilities for technology clients.

The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. provides advertising and marketing services. The company operates in two segments, Integrated Agency Networks and Constituency Administration Group. It offers consumer advertising, digital marketing, communications planning and media buying, public relations, and specialized communications disciplines. The company also offers various diversified services, counting public relations, meeting and event production, sports and entertainment marketing, corporate and brand identity, and planned marketing consulting. Its brands comprise McCann, Lowe and Partners, IPG Mediabrands, Carmichael Lynch, Deutsch, Hill Holliday, The Martin Agency, and Mullen, in addition to Foote, Cone & Belding.

Finally, RCS Capital Corp (NYSE:RCAP), decreased -4.73%, to $6.04.

Cetera Investment Services LLC and Cetera Investment Advisers LLC are part of Cetera Financial Group, the retail advice platform of RCS Capital Corporation (RCAP),

Agnes Lew, Senior Vice President, Director of Wealth Administration at East West Bank, has been named one of Bank Investment Consultant’s (BIC) Top 20 Program Managers. The magazine says the job of a program manager has never been more important, so it scoured the industry to find the ones succeeding and merging the ground between banks and their investment programs. The ranking is based on a weighted average of different variables, specifically highlighting programs that focus on growth and efficiency, which BIC argues “are the result of good administration.” This is Agnes’ second successive inclusion in this list.

RCS Capital Corporation engages in the independent retail advice, wholesale distribution, investment banking, capital markets, investment administration, and investment research businesses. The company offers independent retail advices, financial products, and investment solutions through a network of independent channel broker-dealers and registered investment advisers; and multi-product distribution platform of direct investment program offerings to independent broker-dealers and the retail financial advisor community. It also operates as a registrar; provides record-keeping services; and executes the transfer, issuance, and cancellation of shares or other securities in connection with offerings conducted by issuers.

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