On Wednesday, Shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), gained 0.54% to $53.98.
Longtime Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) executive Julie Larson-Green will replace Kirk Koenigsbauer as head of the company’s Office apps and services, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday, according to Business Journals.
Larson-Green has been chief experience officer for the Redmond company’s applications and services group since 2014. She’ll retain her title and responsibilities, as first stated by tech news site Recode, but add Koenigsbauer’s engineering duties.
Larson-Green has worked her way up through the ranks at Microsoft, where’s she’s worked for more than 20 years. She was at one point suggested as the likely successor to Steve Ballmer when he stepped down as CEO a few years ago.
Since then, she’s run the company’s Xbox division in addition to overseen Office, Skype and Bing.
Koenigsbauer, Microsoft’s former vice president of Office 365, will move away from engineering and into marketing under Chris Capossela, the company’s chief marking officer. Business Journals Reports
Microsoft Corporation, a technology company, develops, licenses, and supports software products, services, and devices worldwide. The company’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.
Shares of Vale S.A. (NYSE:VALE), declined -1.40% to $4.24, during its last trading session.
As iron ore dives below $50 a metric ton and Chinese steelmakers speak of collapsing demand, some analysts see a ray of light for the world’s top producer Vale SA, according to Bloomberg.
The Brazilian miner received a buy recommendation this week when analysts at HSBC Holdings Plc upgraded the stock, citing cost reductions and quality improvements to mined material that can assist boost premiums.
The move assisted push the percentage of buy recommendations for the producer’s American depositary receipts to 26 percent. That’s up from 20 percent on Oct. 20, the lowest since at least 2001, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Presently, 28 percent of analysts are recommending to sell the stock and the remaining 46 percent have a neutral view. ADRs of the Rio de Janeiro-based company tumbled almost 60 percent over the past year amid the rout across commodities.
Vale, the world’s largest iron-ore and nickel miner, on Thursday stated a decline in third-quarter earnings as slumping metal prices overshadowed efforts to focus on higher quality deposits and cut costs. The company is producing more higher-quality iron ore and halting some of its most expensive output to navigate an oversupplied market. Bloomberg Reports
Vale S.A., together with its auxiliaries, engages in the research, production, and sale of iron ore and pellets, nickel, fertilizer, copper, coal, manganese, ferroalloys, cobalt, platinum group metals, and precious metals in Brazil and internationally. Its Bulk Material segment produces and extracts iron ore and pellet.
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