On Wednesday, LendingClub Corp (NYSE:LC)’s shares declined -1.19% to $14.13.
At CGI America, President Bill Clinton declared a Commitment to Action between Lending Club (LC), the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, and Opportunity Fund, a national leader in community-based lending to small businesses.
This pilot program is intended to provide up to $10 million in loans to small businesses in underserved areas of California, assisting an estimated 400 businesses create 1,000 jobs, based on historical impact data collected by Opportunity Fund. The partnership was developed as part of the Community Investment Working Group.
Access to capital for entrepreneurs plays a key role in economic mobility, job creation, and the health of the middle-class, but bank lending to small businesses has failed to recover from the 2008 recession. According to FDIC data[1], while bank commercial loans of $1 million or more have raised by 47% from 2007 to 2014, loans of $100,000 or less have actually fallen by 9%. According to Opportunity Fund, minority communities and women entrepreneurs are particularly underserved, exacerbating disparities in wealth and opportunity.
LendingClub Corporation operates as an online marketplace for connecting borrowers and investors in the United States. Its marketplace facilitates various types of loan products for consumers and small businesses, counting unsecured personal loans, super prime consumer loans, unsecured education and patient finance loans, and unsecured small business loans.
Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ:FLEX)’s shares dropped -3.04% to $10.85.
Flextronics International Ltd. (FLEX) declared that its Chennai facility in Sriperumbudur has been granted the Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) status which will allow the company to ship finished products locally. Flextronics has been operating in Chennai since 2005 at the SIPCOT Special Economic Zone (SEZ). By having both DTA and SEZ status, Flextronics is able to produce and deliver products for both domestic and export markets, with zero customs duty.
Flextronics International Ltd. provides design, manufacturing, and supply chain services and solutions to original equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company offers innovation services, such as innovations labs for supporting customer design and product development services from early concept stages; collective innovation platform, an ecosystem of technology solutions; Lab IX startup accelerator program; centers of excellence solutions in critical areas; interconnect technology center for printed circuits; and CloudLabs that enables customers to accelerate a spectrum of cloud, converged infrastructure, and datacenter strategies. It also provides design and engineering services, counting contract design and joint development manufacturing services, which cover various technical competencies, such as system architecture, user interface and industrial design, mechanical engineering, technology, enclosure systems, thermal and tooling design, electronic system design, reliability and failure analysis, and component level development engineering; and systems assembly and manufacturing services, such as enclosures, testing services, and materials procurement and inventory administration.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Boeing Co (NYSE:BA)‘s shares dipped -0.85% to $141.94.
Boeing (BA), and Japanese aviation industry stakeholders have charted a course to develop sustainable aviation biofuel for flights during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, when millions of people are predictable to visit Japan.
The Initiatives for Next Generation Aviation Fuels (INAF) – a consortium of 46 organizations counting Boeing, ANA (All Nippon Airways), Japan Airlines, Nippon Cargo Airlines, Japan’s government and the University of Tokyo – laid out a five-year “roadmap” to develop biofuel by 2020 as a way to reduce aviation’s environmental footprint.
Using sustainably produced biofuel reduces lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by 50 to 80 percent contrast to conventional petroleum fuel, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Boeing Company, together with its auxiliaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. The company operates in five segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Military Aircraft, Network & Space Systems, Global Services & Support, and Boeing Capital.
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with -4.33% loss, and closed at $22.10.
NRG Renew LLC, a wholly owned partner of NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG), the country’s largest independent power producer, declared plans to develop a 20 megawatt (MW) solar energy facility that will generate clean, reliable solar power for delivery to Cisco’s San Jose headquarters. NRG Renew LLC will convert its NRG Solar Blythe II location, which is a 153-acre parcel that has been under development by NRG since 2010, into a solar installation that will assist Cisco reach its aim of using renewable sources for at least 25 percent of its electricity needs by 2017. The project is planned to start commercial operation by the end of 2016.
Electricity generated by the solar installation will be sold to Cisco under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA), increasing Cisco headquarters’ total use of clean, emission-free electricity.
Located in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona and California border, the NRG Solar Blythe II location receives plentiful sunshine: For nearly half the year, average temperatures reach 90°F or higher.1 The photovoltaic technology to be installed on-site requires no fuel and minimal water. The amount of emission-free energy generated is predictable to be equivalent to the power needed to serve more than 14,000 homes and to prevent more than 102,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere annually, which is the equivalent of removing more than 21,000 cars from the road. During the construction period, the project is anticipated to create about 200 jobs.
NRG Energy, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as a power company. The company provides electricity; system power, distributed generation, solar and wind products, backup generation, storage and distributed solar, demand response, energy efficiency, and on-site energy solutions; carbon administration and specialty services; and various energy services, such as operations, maintenance, technical, development, and asset administration services.
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