On Wednesday, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (ADR)(NYSE:BBVA)’s shares inclined 1.01% to $9.03.
Destacame.cl, a Chilean startup that allows underbanked individuals to build a credit score based on their history of paying everyday bills, has won the BBVA Open Talent 2015 Special Financial Inclusion Award. The award, a new component of this year’s contest, is for startups that provide digital financial solutions to small businesses or low-income customers.
Launched in July 2015 by MIT graduates Jorge Camus and Sebastian Ugarte, Destacame.cl assists individuals without credit history who are unable to secure many financial services, like auto loans or mortgages. Destacame.cl uses a customer’s payment record for everyday bills, like electricity and gas, to build a credit profile. Data from the service is presently being used by three major Chilean financial institutions.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. engages in the retail banking, wholesale banking, asset administration, and private banking businesses primarily in Spain, Eurasia, Mexico, South America, and the United States. It offers deposit products, counting personal accounts, housing accounts, savings accounts, deposit accounts, etc.; and loan products, such as personal loans, mortgages, etc.; credit cards; investment products comprising mutual funds, warrants, and pension plans; and telephone and on-line banking services, in addition to ATMs for individual customers.
BRF SA (ADR) (NYSE:BRFS)’s shares gained 0.08% to $18.60.
Bovespa (BRFS), following CVM Instruction 358 of January 3, 2002, as amended, following the Material Fact of September 3, 2014 and the Declarements to the Market of December 5, 2014 and May 8, 2015, hereby informs its shareholders and the market in general that on this date the Company has accomplished the sale of its dairy division to Lactalis do Brasil – Comercio, Importacao e Exportacao de Laticinios Ltda. (“Transaction”), counting the sale of 100% of the shares of Elebat Alimentos S.A. (“Elebat”), an entity into which BRF has contributed the rights and obligations related to its dairy division. The value of the Transaction was about R$2.1 billion.
BRF S.A., together with its auxiliaries, focuses on raising, producing, and slaughtering poultry, pork, and beef in Brazil. It operates in three segments: Domestic Market (Brazil), Foreign Market (International), and Food Service. The company is also involved in processing and selling fresh meat, processed products, pasta, sauce, mayonnaise, frozen vegetables, and soybean by-products. Its product portfolio comprises whole chickens and cuts of chicken, turkey, and pork; ham products, bologna, sausages, frankfurters, and other smoked products; hamburgers, breaded meat products, and meatballs; lasagnas, pizzas, cheese breads, pies, and frozen vegetables; margarine, sauces, and mayonnaise; and soy meal and refined soy flour, and animal feed. The company primarily sells its products under the Sadia, Perdigão, and Qualy brands, in addition to Deline, Hot Pocket, Soltíssimo, Prezato, Sadilar, Miss Daisy, Chester, Ouro, Na Brasa, Meu Menu, Sanduba, Mini Chicken, Cotochés, Perdix, Borella, Hilal, Unef, Confidence, Paty, and Danica brands through its distribution centers to supermarkets, retail stores, wholesalers, restaurants, and other institutional customers.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, CMS Energy Corporation (NYSE:CMS)‘s shares surged 0.40% to $32.23.
CMS Energy declared recently stated net income of $67 million, or $0.25 per share, for the second quarter of 2015 and $269 million, or $0.98 per share, for the first half of 2015. Adjusted (non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) earnings per share for the second quarter and first half were the same as stated amounts. Earnings per share in 2015 grew 3 cents contrast with 2014 on a weather-normalized basis.
CMS Energy reaffirmed its guidance for 2015 adjusted earnings of $1.86 to $1.89 per share. This is comprising with the company’s long-term plan of 5 percent to 7 percent annual adjusted earnings per share growth.
In the first half of 2015, CMS Energy continued to execute its business plan which emphasizes investments in its operations with a focus on safety, customer satisfaction, reliability and the environment.
John Russell, CMS Energy’s president and chief executive officer, said that CMS Energy’s principal partner, Consumers Energy, is investing to strengthen its natural gas and electric infrastructure to enhance customer service, and improve Michigan’s environment.
CMS Energy Corporation operates as an energy company primarily in Michigan, the United States. The company’s Electric Utility segment engages in the generation, purchase, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, and various industrial customers in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It operates a network of coal, gas, hydroelectric, oil, and wind generation plants.
TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ:TASR), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with 6.09% gain, and closed at $23.87.
TASER International (TASR) declared it is now offering its leading Axon body camera and Canadian based digital evidence administration solution to police agencies across Canada. The declarement comprises the incorporation of Axon Public Safety Canada Inc. as a wholly owned partner of TASER International, Inc. The company is now active and poised to function as TASER’s primary contracting and hiring entity in Canada for its Axon solution going forward.
TASER, which is attending the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) next week, has been steadfast in its commitment to changing the face of public safety technology since the introduction of its iconic TASER device more than 20 years ago, and it maintains that commitment with its leading Axon body cameras and digital evidence administration solution that interact seamlessly across agency workflows for a cost effective solution for building safer communities.
TASER International, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells conducted electrical weapons (CEWs) worldwide. It operates through two segments, TASER Weapons and AXON. The company’s CEW products transmit electrical pulses along the wires and into the body affecting the sensory and motor functions of the peripheral nervous system. It offers three hand-held CEW product lines, counting TASER X26P and TASER X2, which integrates with EVIDENCE.com; and TASER X26.
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