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News Alert on: Golar LNG Limited (USA)(NASDAQ:GLNG), Manulife Financial Corporation (USA)(NYSE:MFC), Anthem Inc(NYSE:ANTM), MFA Financial, Inc.(NYSE:MFA)

On Monday, Golar LNG Limited (USA)(NASDAQ:GLNG)’s shares inclined 0.31% to $38.94.

Dynagas Ltd. GasLog Ltd. (“GLOG) and Golar LNG Ltd (“GLNG) jointly declare that they have reached an LNG carrier pooling agreement (the “LNG Carrier Pool”) to market their vessels, which are presently operating in the LNG shipping spot market.

The LNG Carrier Pool allows the participating owners to optimise the operation of the pool vessels through improved scheduling ability, cost efficiencies and common marketing. The objective of the LNG Carrier Pool is to serve the transportation requirements of a rapidly growing LNG shipping market by providing customers with reliable, more flexible, and innovative solutions to meet their increasingly complex shipping requirements.

Golar LNG Limited, a midstream liquefied natural gas (LNG) company, engages in the transportation, regasification, liquefaction, and trading of LNG. The company operates in three segments: Vessel Operations, LNG Trading, and FLNG. It is involved in the acquisition, ownership, operation, and chartering of LNG carriers and floating storage regasification units (FSRUs); and the development of LNG projects. As of August 18, 2015, the company, together with the fleet held by Golar LNG Partner LP, owned and managed 26 LNG carriers and FSRUs. Golar LNG Limited was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Manulife Financial Corporation (USA) (NYSE:MFC)’s shares gained 0.12% to $16.23.

Manulife Hong Kong has kicked off the second wave of a multimedia campaign with the launch of a new TV commercial recently to encourage Hong Kong consumers to embrace more active lifestyles through the ManulifeMOVE program. Featuring Cantopop star Pakho Chau, the high energy ads focus on Manulife’s unique health and wellness program that assists users get fit and save money at the same time.

Whether it is a hop, a skip or a jump, the new campaign ads show how easy it is to integrate movement into our daily lives. With ManulifeMOVE, people wear a fitness tracker which monitors their physical activity and that also assists them earn discounts on their insurance premiums. It is inspiration and motivation in one.

Manulife Financial Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, provides financial protection and wealth administration products and services to individual, corporate, and business customers primarily in Asia, Canada, and the United States. It offers various individual life and health insurance, and individual and group long-term care insurance products through insurance agents, brokers, banks, financial planners, and direct marketing.

At the end of Monday’s trade, Anthem Inc (NYSE:ANTM)‘s shares surged 0.33% to $141.05.

Anthem, Inc. (ANTM) declared that second quarter 2015 net income was $859.1 million, or $3.13 per share. These results comprised of net gains of $0.03 per share. Net income in the second quarter of 2014 was $731.1 million, or $2.56 per share.

Not taking into account the items noted in each period, adjusted net income was $3.10 per share in the second quarter of 2015, an enhance of 21.1 percent contrast with adjusted net income of $2.56 per share in the preceding year quarter (refer to the GAAP reconciliation table for a reconciliation to the most directly comparable measure calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or “GAAP”).

Anthem, Inc., through its auxiliaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Commercial and Specialty Business, Government Business, and Other. The company offers a spectrum of network-based managed care health benefit plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets.

MFA Financial, Inc.(NYSE:MFA), ended its Monday’s trading session with -0.21% loss, and closed at $7.11.

MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA) declared that in accordance with the terms of its 7.50% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, the Board of Directors has declared a preferred stock dividend of $0.46875 per share for the quarter ending September 30, 2015. This dividend is payable on September 30, 2015, to preferred stockholders of record as of September 9, 2015.

MFA Financial, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), invests in residential agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and residential whole loans in the United States (the U.S.). Its MBS are secured by hybrid mortgages, adjustable-rate mortgages, and 15-year and longer term fixed-rate mortgages, in addition to by mortgages that have interest rates that reset more frequently.

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