On Monday, Shares of AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE:AKS), lost -0.71% to $5.63.
AK Steel, has received a “Deal Maker of the Year” award from the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) for the company’s $690 million acquisition of Severstal Dearborn, LLC. The award was presented at the ACG Cincinnati chapter’s annual awards event held on May 13, 2015. ACG presented awards in five categories. AK Steel and The Kroger Company were award winners in the category for corporations with over $1 billion in annual revenues.
“We are honored to be recognized by ACG for our Dearborn acquisition, and we extend our sincere congratulations to Kroger and to each of our fellow Deal Maker award recipients,” said James L. Wainscott, Chairman, President and CEO of AK Steel. “The successful completion of our Dearborn acquisition in the fall of 2014 has been a transformational deal for our company. It has strengthened AK Steel as a premier North American steel manufacturer and enhanced our company’s ability to serve customers with increased size, scale and operational flexibility.”
AK Steel Holding Corporation, through its subsidiary, AK Steel Corporation, produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel, and tubular products in the United States and internationally. It produces flat-rolled value-added carbon steels, including coated, cold-rolled, and hot-rolled carbon steel products; and specialty stainless and electrical steels in sheet and strip forms.
Shares of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), inclined 0.55% to $72.80, during its last trading session.
salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), declared Salesforce Connections 2015, the digital marketing event of the year. Held in conjunction with the Salesforce World Tour in New York, more than 15,000 people are expected to register to attend the three-day event, and hundreds of thousands are expected to join online. Salesforce Connections will take place June 16-18, 2015, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. Register now for the free 3-day Connections pass at www.connections2015.com.
salesforce.com, inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions, with a focus on customer relationship management to various businesses and industries worldwide.
At the end of Monday’s trade, Shares of Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE:A), gained 1.40% to $42.63.
Agilent Technologies Inc, reported orders of $1.04 billion, up 1 percent (up 8 percent adjusted for currency) over one year ago for the second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2015. Second-quarter revenues were $963 million, down 3 percent (up 4 percent adjusted for currency(3)) compared with one year ago.
Second-quarter GAAP income from continuing operations was $88 million, or $0.26 per share. Last year’s second-quarter GAAP income from continuing operations was $40 million, or $0.12 per share.
Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides bio-analytical solutions and services to the life sciences, diagnostics and genomics, chemical analysis, communications, and electronics industries worldwide.
Finally, Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE:ED), ended its last trade with 0.38% gain, and closed at $61.05.
Consolidated Edison’s Chairman and CEO John McAvoy told company shareholders at today’s annual meeting that “solar, wind, battery storage, fuel cells, electric vehicles, and smart meters are changing lives,” and that “to navigate this new world, we won’t just respond to change, we will lead.”
“We will lead because of our legacy,” said McAvoy. “For nearly 200 years, Con Edison has powered New York. Your company makes the city and region tick. We light the Great White Way and hospital emergency rooms, Wall Street, and Brooklyn brownstones. By building on this legacy, we will continue to thrive.”
Consolidated Edison, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in regulated electric, gas, and steam delivery businesses in the United States. It offers electric services to approximately 3.4 million customers in New York City and Westchester County; gas to approximately 1.1 million customers in Manhattan, the Bronx, and parts of Queens and Westchester County; and steam to approximately 1,700 customers in parts of Manhattan.
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