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Thursday 15 October 2015
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News Alert on: Dunkin Brands Group Inc(NASDAQ:DNKN), Paychex,(NASDAQ:PAYX), Pioneer Natural Resources(NYSE:PXD), Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU)

On Tuesday, Dunkin Brands Group Inc (NASDAQ:DNKN)’s shares declined -1.44% to $49.44.

Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops, is keeping guests cool this summer with its August Flavor of the Month, OREO® Malt Madness. This new flavor is a delicious combination of traditional chocolate malt-flavored ice cream, loaded with OREO® cookie pieces and a chocolate sea salt cookie flavored ribbon. OREO® Malt Madness can be enjoyed in a cup, cone or as a milkshake. To make things even sweeter this month, guests can upgrade any double scoop purchase with a freshly-baked waffle cone for no extra charge.

Baskin-Robbins is also ongoing its 70th birthday celebration this month with its special “Celebrate 31” promotion and on Monday, August 31st guests can enjoy any scoop of ice cream for $1.31 per scoop. The offer is valid for all 31 ice cream flavors, counting August’s Flavor of the Month, at participating Baskin-Robbins locations nationwide.*

Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, develops, franchises, and licenses quick service restaurants under the Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Dunkin’ Donuts U.S., Dunkin’ Donuts International, Baskin-Robbins U.S., and Baskin-Robbins International. I

Paychex, Inc.(NASDAQ:PAYX)’s shares dropped -2.69% to $43.46.

For the second straight month, the Paychex | IHS Small Business Jobs Index was relatively unchanged, increasing slightly from 100.63 in June to 100.64 in July. The national index has seen little movement in recent months, essentially remaining flat from May to July. Still trailing employment growth seen in 2014, the index was down 0.46 percent from the previous July. The East North Central region continues as the highest-ranked regional index. Washington maintained its lead among states, and for the 10th straight month, Dallas ranked number one among metro areas for employment growth with an index level surpassing 105.

Paychex, Inc. provides payroll, human resource, insurance, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States and Germany. The company offers payroll processing services that comprise the calculation, preparation, and delivery of employee payroll checks; production of internal accounting records and administration reports; preparation of federal, state, and local payroll tax returns; and collection and remittance of clients’ payroll obligations.

At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD)‘s shares surged 0.14% to $115.37.

Pioneer Natural Resources Company (PXD) declared financial and operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.

Pioneer stated a second quarter net loss attributable to common stockholders of $218 million, or $1.46 per diluted share. Without the effect of noncash derivative mark-to-market losses and other unusual items, adjusted income for the second quarter was $15 million after tax, or $0.10 per diluted share.

Second quarter and other recent highlights comprised of:

  • producing 197 thousand barrels oil equivalent per day (MBOEPD) in the second quarter, of which 51% was oil; second quarter production reflected strong Spraberry/Wolfcamp production growth driven by Pioneer’s successful horizontal drilling program partially offset by lower-than-predictable production in the Eagle Ford Shale and the West Panhandle field;
  • maintaining a production growth forecast for 2015 of 10%+, reflecting an enhance in forecasted Spraberry/Wolfcamp production growth from 20%+ to 22% to 24% offset by a reduction in the full-year growth rate for the Eagle Ford Shale;

Pioneer Natural Resources Company engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the United States. The company produces and sells oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and gas. It has operations primarily in the Permian Basin in West Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas, the Raton field in southeastern Colorado, and the West Panhandle field in the Texas Panhandle.

Prudential Financial Inc(NYSE:PRU), ended its Tuesday’s trading session with 0.09% gain, and closed at $77.19.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) declared that it will host a conference for analysts and investors in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, September 15, 2016. Details will be declared closer to the date of the meeting.

Prudential Financial, Inc. provides insurance, investment administration, and other financial products and services to individual and institutional customers in the United States and internationally. The company principally offers life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, and investment administration products. Its U.S. Retirement Solutions and Investment Administration division offers individual variable and fixed annuity products; recordkeeping, plan administration, actuarial advisory, tailored participant education and communication, trustee, and institutional and retail investments services; and guaranteed investment contracts, funding agreements, institutional and retail notes, structured settlement annuities, and other group annuities.

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