On Friday, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)’s shares declined -1.78% to $57.42.
Comcast Corporation declared a pilot program that will extend Internet Essentials, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program for low-income families, to more than 90,000 low-income community college students who are Federal Pell Grant recipients in Illinois.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, community colleges enroll as many as 40 percent of all college students each year. As low-cost, open-access institutions, community colleges serve a high percentage of non-traditional students, counting those who are low-income, are financially independent, have dependents, are first generation, and are older.
According to research, an associate degree enhances the chance of being employed by 12 to 15 percent for men and 20 percent for women. In addition, according to the Community College Resource Center, an associate degree enhances average earnings contrast to a high school diploma by 13 percent for men and 21 percent for women. In 2012, the American Association of Community Colleges estimated community college graduates added $809 billion in income to the U.S. economy in higher wages, raised productivity, and multiplier effects. Additionally, according to an Illinois Community College Board report, concluding a community college program enhances lifetime earnings by 44%, or over $570,000, contrast to those who do not complete a program.
Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. It operates through Cable Communications, Cable Net operates, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks segments. The Cable Communications segment offers video, high-speed Internet, and voice services to residential and business customers under the XFINITY brand name. This segment also provides business services, such as cellular backhaul services to mobile network operators; Ethernet network services; and online advertising services.
American International Group Inc (NYSE:AIG)’s shares dropped -1.15% to $57.76.
AIG Private Client Group, a division of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) that serves high net worth clients, marked the 10-year anniversary of its Wildfire Protection Unit (WPU) with Montecito, CA, officials, providing pro-bono fire protection to key areas in the Montecito Fire Protection District in preparation for the height of wildfire season.
AIG’s WPU, in partnership with Montecito wildfire specialists, spent the day spraying a bio-degradable fire retardant and performing other mitigation actions in the Montecito area using special-purpose built AIG WPU trucks.
The work in Montecito recognizes the vulnerability of California to wildfires. In 2014, 7,865 fires destroyed 555,044 acres and caused millions in property damage statewide, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. And the 2015 wildfire season has been very active.
American International Group, Inc. provides insurance products and services for commercial, institutional, and individual customers in the United States, the Asia Pacific, and internationally.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Navient Corp (NASDAQ:NAVI)‘s shares surged 0.88% to $12.66.
Navient (NAVI), the nation’s leading loan administration, servicing and asset recovery company, declared the launch of a new online investor forum designed to facilitate communication with bondholders of securities backed by federally guaranteed student loans. The forum is offered by Navient through DealVector.
Through the new online investor forum, ABS investors can register to receive notifications regarding their bonds and can also communicate with Navient and directly with other bondholders through identity-protected messages.
Navient Corporation provides financial products and services in the United States. The company operates in four segments: FFELP Loans, Private Education Loans, Business Services, and Other.
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NBL), ended its Friday’s trading session with -2.39% loss, and closed at $32.32.
Noble Energy, Inc. (NBL) declared that Kenneth M. Fisher, the Company’s Executive Vice President & CFO, will present at the Johnson Rice & Company Energy Conference on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 8:30a.m. Central Time.
Noble Energy, Inc., an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids worldwide. Its principal projects are located in onshore DJ Basin and Marcellus Shale, the United States; the deepwater Gulf of Mexico; offshore West Africa; and offshore Eastern Mediterranean.
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