On Thursday, ADT Corp (NYSE:ADT)’s shares inclined 0.22% to $36.91.
ADT Corp (ADT) declared it will be a sponsor for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 11th annual America’s Small Business Summit, which will bring together hundreds of small business owners, managers, and local chamber leaders from across the country. As a summit event partner, ADT will assist provide attendees with opportunities to learn, network, and take part in a variety of thought-provoking sessions on leadership, innovation, and small business policy.
ADT will also sponsor the corporate headshots for small businesses at the summit. In this capacity, ADT will be empowering the small business owners in attendance to have professional materials created for their business cards, website materials and outbound marketing activities. Additionally, ADT Chief Information Security Officer Tom Dennison will be presenting on a panel called “Don’t Get Hacked! Cybersecurity on a Shoestring Budget,” a panel that will provide insights for small business customers in terms of how to protect against potential cybersecurity threats.
The ADT Corporation provides monitored security, interactive home and business automation, and related monitoring services in the United States and Canada. The company’s monitored security and home/business automation offerings comprise the installation and monitoring of residential and business security, and premises automation systems designed to detect intrusion, control access and react to movement, smoke, carbon monoxide, flooding, temperature, and other environmental conditions and hazards, in addition to to address personal emergencies, such as injuries, medical emergencies, or incapacitation.
Centene Corp (NYSE:CNC)’s shares gained 2.57% to $75.80.
Centene Corp (CNC) shares rose faster than broad market indexes Thursday morning, after the Medicaid coverage provider hiked its full-year earnings forecast range well beyond the average expectation on Wall Street.
The St. Louis company said it now expects 2015 earnings to range between $2.70 and $2.82 per share after previously forecasting $2.60 to $2.72 per share. Analysts expect, on average, earnings of $2.71 per share, according to FactSet.
Centene also nudged up its revenue forecast to $20.8 billion to $21.2 billion, up from an April forecast of $20.5 billion to $21 billion.
Centene Corporation operates as a diversified, multi-national healthcare enterprise that provides programs and services to under-insured and uninsured individuals in the United States. It operates in two segments, Managed Care and Specialty Services. The Managed Care segment offers Medicaid and Medicaid-related health plan coverage to individuals through government subsidized programs, counting Medicaid, the State children’s health insurance program, long-term care, foster care, and dual-eligible individuals, in addition to aged, blind, or disabled programs.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Prima Biomed Ltd.(NASDAQ:PBMD)‘s shares dipped -5.50% to $2.06.
Prima Biomed Ltd. (PBMD) declare that it has received EUR 226,055 (about A$320,000) in a cash rebate from the French state under the Crédit d’Impôt Recherche scheme. The cash rebate was paid in respect of expenditure incurred by Prima’s wholly owned partner, Immutep on French R&D activities in the 2014 calendar year, related to the Company’s LAG-3 programs.
Prima is eligible to receive CIR credits because it has a laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry in southwestern Paris. The laboratory is a leading centre of immunology research in Europe. The Châtenay-Malabry facility is headed by Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Professor Frédéric Triebel. Prima inherited the laboratory with its December 2014 acquisition of the French company Immutep SA. It is presently working on new products in addition to development of the existing Prima pipeline, which comprises the lead compound IMP321 entering Phase IIb trial in metastatic breast cancer patients receiving first-line chemotherapy.
Prima BioMed Ltd. researches, develops, and commercializes medical biotechnology products in Australia. The company develops immunocellular therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer. Its lead product is CVac, an autologous dendritic cell-based product presently in clinical trials for ovarian and pancreatic cancer patients. Prima BioMed Ltd. is based in Sydney, Australia.
Biomed Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:BMR), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 1.66% gain, and closed at $20.17.
Biomed Realty Trust Inc (BMR) declared the completion of the sale of its property at 145 King of Prussia Road in Radnor, PA to Penn Medicine for $35 million.
This deal will allow Penn Medicine to develop its own plan for the site in partnership with the Radnor Township. The transaction will result in an approximate $32 million impairment loss, which the company will record in the second quarter.
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on providing real estate to the life science industry in the United States. Its tenants primarily comprise biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, scientific research institutions, government agencies, and other entities involved in the life science industry.
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