On Tuesday, Liberty Global plc - Class A Ordinary Shares(NASDAQ:LBTYA)’s shares declined -1.65% to $48.28.
Liberty Global plc (“Liberty Global”) (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK, LILA and LILAK) recently declared its inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices.
The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices track the performance of leading companies in terms of their economic, environmental, governance and social performance. Each year, over 3,000 publicly traded companies are invited to take part in this corporate sustainability assessment and Liberty Global’s inclusion is evidence of the company’s continued progress in delivering its Corporate Responsibility strategy.
ighlights from Liberty Global’s Corporate Responsibility program in 2014 comprised of:
- Empowering young people to acquire and grow their digital skills through programs such as CoderDojo and YouRock. Liberty Global became a partner of both programs, which are part of its ‘promoting a digital society’ strategy and demonstrates its commitment to the European Commission’s Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs;
- Engaging with thousands of entrepreneurs across a number of markets in online competitions and initiatives to support innovation in digital society. Projects comprised of Pitch to Rich in the U.K., Telenet’s Kickstart accelerator in Belgium, and Think Big in Poland;
- Ongoing to make advances in conserving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions relative to the company’s key measure - the amount of data traffic consumed by our customers. In 2014, the company improved its energy efficiency by 34% and its carbon efficiency by 31%;
- Refurbishing 4.4 million set-top boxes and modems, avoiding about 7,200 metric tons of waste that would otherwise have ended up in landfill sites. This also resulted in a financial saving of $320 million;
Liberty Global plc, together with its auxiliaries, provides video, broadband Internet, fixed-line telephony, and mobile services in Europe, Chile, Puerto Rico, and internationally. The company offers various residential services, counting video services comprising basic and premium programming, which can be viewed on the television and Internet connected devices; electronic programming guide, high definition (HD) channels, digital video recorder (DVR), and HD DVR services; video-on-demand, set-top boxes, pay-per-view programming, and programming in three-dimensional format services, in addition to television applications that allow access to programming on laptops, smartphones, and tablets; and entertainment, sports, movies, documentaries, lifestyles, news, adult, children, and ethnic and foreign channels.
AFLAC Incorporated(NYSE:AFL)’s shares dropped -1.14% to $57.04.
As employers continue to load more health care expenses onto workers, more than half (53 percent) of employees are still choosing a major medical plan based on factors that may have little to do with the total cost of health care for which they are increasingly responsible. According to the 2015 Aflac Open Enrollment Survey released recently by Aflac (AFL), the leading provider of voluntary insurance at the work site in the United States, most workers (75 percent) at least somewhat agree that even with their health insurance coverage, their medical copays and other out-of-pocket costs are more than they can afford at times. In spite of this, however, a noteworthynumber of consumers lack the desire to research their insurance benefits.
The 2015 Aflac Open Enrollment Survey was conducted among 2,000 U.S. adults employed either full or part time in June and July 2015 by Lightspeed GMI on behalf of Aflac.
In fact, according to Aflac’s survey, many would rather do almost anything else than research their benefits:
- More than a third (38 percent) would rather clean out their email inbox;
- Nearly 1 in 4 (23 percent) would rather clean their toilet; and
- 18 percent would rather do their taxes.
Aflac Incorporated, through its partner, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers various voluntary supplemental insurance products, counting cancer plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans, and annuities in Japan.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc(NASDAQ:AERI)‘s shares dipped -2.12% to $23.99.
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AERI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of first-in-class glaucoma therapies, recently stated the successful results of its second Phase 3 trial for Rhopressa™, a novel once-daily, triple-action eye drop being tested for its ability to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
Rhopressa™ Phase 3 Highlights for Rocket 2
- Rhopressa™, dosed both once-daily and twice-daily, achieved its primary efficacy endpoint demonstrating non-inferiority contrast to twice-daily timolol. The primary efficacy endpoint evaluated subjects with pre-study baseline IOPs of above 20 to below 25 mmHg (millimeters of mercury).
- The Rocket 2 efficacy results for Rhopressa™ demonstrated a compriseent level of IOP lowering across all baseline IOPs and throughout the 90-day efficacy period.
- The most common Rhopressa™ adverse event was hyperemia, or eye redness, which was stated as raised in 35 percent of patients and was scored as mild for 83 percent of patients in the Rhopressa™ once-daily arm of the trial. The adverse event profile for the Rhopressa™once-daily arm was compriseent with the results of Rocket.
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of first-in-class therapies for the treatment of glaucoma and other eye diseases.
Albemarle Corporation(NYSE:ALB), ended its Tuesday’s trading session with -1.49% loss, and closed at $45.71.
Albemarle Corporation (ALB), a premier specialty chemicals company and leader in the production of lithium and lithium compounds, declared recently its intention to add up to 50,000 metric tons of mineral conversion production capacity to significantly boost battery grade lithium production (counting lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide) to meet the growing needs of the energy storage market, in particular for customers in the global transportation industry utilizing lithium ion battery technology. This expansion plan is predictable to further solidify Albemarle’s cost leadership position in the growing market for lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide.
The new plant is predictable to come on stream in multiple phases and will source spodumene ore from Albemarle’s joint venture in Greenbushes, Australia. Albemarle has commenced feasibility studies and is evaluating potential sites, counting several locations in the United States and Asia. The plant is predictable to be operational in 2020.
Albemarle Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals worldwide. The companys Performance Chemicals segment offers brominated flame retardants under the Saytex brand; mineral-based flame retardants under the Martinal and Magnifin brands; and elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and bromine fine chemicals that are used in chemical synthesis, oil and gas well drilling and completion fluids, mercury control, paper manufacturing, water purification, beef and poultry processing, and various other industrial applications.
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