On Friday, Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS)’s shares inclined 0.14% to $59.12.
Finicity Corp.™ makers of the popular personal finance application Mvelopes (www.mvelopes.com) and Discover Personal Loans are working together to assist consumers take control over their finances. Finicity’s Financial Wellness programs, counting Mvelopes, assist keep people on track with their spending, budget, and planned loan repayment.
This unique program brings together the power of Discover’s Personal Loans, backed by Finicity’s tools; education and accountability, to assist consumers eliminate high interest debt. Once approved for a personal loan, Mvelopes users can sync their Discover Personal Loan with their web and mobile app to assist them stay on top of payments and focus on paying their balances off as quickly as possible.
Discover Financial Services operates as a direct banking and payment services company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Direct Banking and Payment Services. The Direct Banking segment offers Discover-branded credit cards to individuals; and other consumer products and services, counting private student loans, personal loans, home loans, home equity loans, prepaid cards, and other consumer lending, in addition to deposit products, such as certificates of deposit, money market accounts, savings accounts, checking accounts, and individual retirement arrangement certificates of deposit.
Kellogg Company (NYSE:K)’s shares gained 0.29% to $63.05.
This summer, as the official breakfast of Little League, Kellogg Company (NYSE:K)’s Frosted Flakes® is calling all dads and kids to “Show Their Stripes” – spotlighting the way they play sports with a sense of passion, sportsmanship and team spirit. From sharing a moment during a pre-game ritual or encouraging good sportsmanship on the field, the #ShowYourStripes program will celebrate the play in playing sports, and those that show what being a good sport is all about this Little League season.
To kick off the summer, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes released an inspirational video compilation of last year’s best “Show Your Stripes” moments from the 2014 Little League Baseball and Softball World Series, encouraging Dad to hit the field with his kid and make memories of their own during the 2015 season. Head to the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes YouTube page to check out their “Kids of Summer” video. And throughout this summer, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes is encouraging everyone to share their #ShowYourStripes moments on social media.
Kellogg Company, together with its auxiliaries, manufactures and markets ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods. The company operates through U.S. Morning Foods, U.S. Snacks, U.S. Specialty, North America Other, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific segments. Its principal products comprise ready-to-eat cereals and convenience foods, such as cookies, crackers, savory snacks, frozen foods, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles, and veggie foods, in addition to health and wellness business bars, and beverages.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE:FCAU)‘s shares surged 1.30% to $15.59.
Remaining true to its performance roots, the Mopar brand unveiled the next-generation Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, a factory-prepped package car specifically geared for drag racing. The vehicle, revealed recently at the FCA US LLC Chelsea Proving Grounds, is built on the Dodge Challenger platform and will come with the option of either the brand’s first-ever offering of a supercharged 354-cubic-inch Gen III HEMI® engine or a naturally aspirated 426-cubic-inch Gen III HEMI engine.
The new Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak is designed for passionate Sportsman racers who compete in nationally sanctioned drag racing series, such as the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). The new generation Drag Pak combines the latest in Sportsman racing technology, a host of upgrades and improvements from the previous generation Drag Pak and unique heritage design cues.
Under a factory hood is the supercharged 354 HEMI engine, with a cast-iron block, forged steel crankshaft, Mopar spec camshaft and a custom performance engine calibration. The 354 nomenclature pays homage to the heritage of the early Gen 1 HEMI engines, which originally displaced 354 cubic inches.
The naturally aspirated 426 Race HEMI engine is built off of a Mopar aluminum block with pressed-in steel liners and aluminum cylinder heads. Like the supercharged engine, the 426 HEMI also comprises a custom engine calibration. The new Drag Pak features a race-prepped automatic transmission, upgraded from the previous generation vehicle, for both the 354 and 426 engine options.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an automotive group, designs, engineers, manufactures, distributes, and sells vehicles and components. It offers passenger cars, light trucks, and light commercial vehicles under the Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Lancia, and Ram brand names, in addition to after-sales services and parts under the Mopar brand name.
Southern Co (NYSE:SO), ended its Friday’s trading session with 0.68% gain, and closed at $41.90.
Southern Co (SO) declared that for the ninth successive year IDG’s Computerworld has recognized the company as one of the best workplaces for information technology professionals in its annual ranking of the 100 “Best Places to Work in IT” list. In this year’s rankings, Southern Company was listed as the highest-rated “large” utility company.
Computerworld’s 2015 “Best Places to Work in IT” feature ranks the top 100 work environments for technology professionals, based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, training and retention.
In addition, Computerworld conducted extensive surveys of IT workers, which accounted for about half of the total scoring. More than 23,000 IT employees from the final 100 companies across the country accomplished the Computerworld survey. The employee survey comprised of topics such as satisfaction with training and development programs, compensation, benefits and work/life balance.
The Southern Company, together with its auxiliaries, operates as a public electric utility company. It is involved in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. The company also constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets, counting renewable energy projects. As of December 31, 2014, it operated 33 hydroelectric generating stations, 33 fossil fuel generating stations, 3 nuclear generating stations, 13 combined cycle/cogeneration stations, 9 solar facilities, 1 biomass facility, and 1 landfill gas facility.
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