On Wednesday, Shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), lost -0.74% to $544.83. 3.58 million shares of the company were exchanged.
(AMZN)—In celebration of its fifth year, AmazonCrossing, the literary translation imprint of Amazon Publishing, declared a $10 million commitment over the next five years to enhance the number and diversity of its books in translation. AmazonCrossing is one of the largest publishers of translated literature in the United States, with 77 titles from 15 countries and 12 languages to be published in the United States in 2015.
Declared investment will go toward fees paid to translators over the next five years and increasing the countries and languages represented on the AmazonCrossing list, which since 2010 has comprised of more than 200 titles by authors from 29 countries writing in 19 languages.
Over the past five years, AmazonCrossing has published noteworthy operates such as German author Oliver Pötzsch’s million-copy best-selling Hangman’s Daughter series, Korean author Bae Suah’s acclaimed novella Nowhere to Be Found and Turkish author Ayse Kulin’s Kindle best seller Last Train to Istanbul. The 2016 list will continue a commitment to translating books by exceptional foreign-language authors counting award-winning and best-selling Mexican author of Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel. Her novel Pierced by the Sun, a gripping tale of murder and redemption translated from Spanish by Jordi Castells, will be published in June 2016. In July 2016, AmazonCrossing will publish award-winning Polish crime writer Zygmunt Miloszewski’s Rage, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, winner of the 2014 Paszport Polityka prize for literature.
Amazon.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates through the North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments.
Shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA), declined -1.30% to $84.03, during its last trading session.
The board of directors of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. ( WBA) declared a regular quarterly dividend of 36 cents per share, a 6.7 percent enhance over the year ago dividend. The dividend is payable 11 December 2015 to stockholders of record as of 16 November 2015.
Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreen Co., have paid a dividend in 332 straight quarters (83 years) and have raised the dividend for 40 successive years.
The company was created through the combination of Walgreens and Alliance Boots in December 2014, bringing together two leading companies with iconic brands, complementary geographic footprints, shared values and a heritage of trusted health care services through pharmaceutical wholesaling and community pharmacy care, dating back more than 100 years.
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.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Shares of American Capital Agency Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC), declined -0.26% to $19.27.
American Capital Agency Corp. declared that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share of common stock for October 2015. The dividend is payable on November 9, 2015 to common stockholders of record as of October 30, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of October 28, 2015.
AGNC’s September 30, 2015 net book value per common share will be declared concurrent with the Company’s regular quarterly earnings release, which is planned for October 26, 2015.
American Capital Agency Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company invests in residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprise or by the United States government agency.
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