On Friday, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX)’s shares surged 2.25% to $128.47, as Vertex Pharmaceuticals will report its first quarter 2015 financial results on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 after the financial markets close. The company will host a conference call and webcast at 5:00 p.m. ET. To access the call, please dial (866) 501-1537 (U.S.) or +1 (720) 545-0001 (International).
The conference call will be webcast live and a link to the webcast can be accessed through Vertex’s website at www.vrtx.com in the “Investors” section under “Events and Presentations.”
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated engages in discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing small molecule drugs for patients with serious diseases in specialty markets. The company focuses on developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF); and advancing its research and early-stage development programs. It markets KALYDECO (ivacaftor) to treat patients of six years of age and older with CF who have the mutations in their cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the European Union.
Memorial Production Partners LP (NASDAQ:MEMP)’s shares gained 2.23% to $16.98, during the last trading session on Friday, after Memorial Production declared the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 4,661,663 ordinary units representing limited partner interests owned by MRD Holdco LLC (MRDH) at a price to the public at $16.60 per unit. MRDH will receive all of the net proceeds from the offering. MRDH has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 699,249 ordinary units.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. and UBS Investment Bank are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. A copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus regarding the offering may be obtained from the offices of:
Memorial Production Partners LP, through its partner, engages in the attainment, development, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas properties. Its properties comprise of operated and non-operated working interests in producing and undeveloped leasehold acreage, and working interests in identified producing wells located in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and offshore Southern California.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s shares gained 2.21% to $31.93, after Intel declared that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) has awarded Intel Federal LLC, a wholly-owned partner of Intel Corporation, a contract to deliver two next-generation supercomputers to Argonne National Laboratory.
The contract is part of the DOE’s multimillion dollar initiative to build state-of-the-art supercomputers at Argonne, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories that will be five to seven times more powerful than recently’s top supercomputers. The joint Partnershipof Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) will assist to advance U.S. leadership in scientific research and maintain its position at the forefront of next-generation exascale computing for years to come.
Intel was selected as the prime contractor and will work with Cray Inc. as the system integrator and manufacturer of these next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) systems for the ALCF. The largest system, to be called Aurora, is based on Intel’s HPC scalable system framework and will be a next-generation Cray “Shasta” supercomputer. The Aurora system will be delivered in 2018 and have a peak performance of 180 petaflops, making it the world’s most powerful system presently declared to date.
A second system, to be named Theta, will serve as an early production system for the ALCF. To be delivered in the 2016, the system will provide performance of 8.5 petaflops while requiring only 1.7 megawatts of power.
Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. It operates through PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Mobile and Communications Group, Software and Services, and All Other segments.
Finally, Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE), ended its Friday’s trading session with 2.21% gain, and closed at $30.56, hitting its highest level, as in celebration of the forthcoming release of the highly anticipated motion picture Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and National Security Guard Day, security guards and other New Yorkers joined Kevin James and successfully set two GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ titles on Segways. The security guards then joined James at the red carpet premiere of the film. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 arrives in theaters on Friday, April 17.
Preceding to the premiere, more than 100 participants joined together to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Largest 2-Wheeled Electric Personal Vehicle or Segway Lesson; then, with the lesson complete, they joined James as the star led the way in setting another new mark, for Most People Simultaneously Performing a 360-Degree Turn on 2-Wheeled Electric Personal Vehicles or Segways.
Also at the premiere, Media and Entertainment Deputy Commissioner Luis Castro unveiled Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proclamation declaring the day “NYC Security Guard Day” in the city.
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a partner of Sony Entertainment Inc., a partner of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production, attainment and distribution; television production, attainment and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies.
Sony Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer, professional, and industrial markets worldwide. It offers LCD televisions; home audio, Blu-ray disc players and recorders, and memory-based audio devices; compact digital, home-use video, and interchangeable single-lens cameras; and personal computers.
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