On Friday, Shares of E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC), lost -1.12% to $29.50.
E*TRADE Financial Corp, declared that it will present at the Sandler O’Neill Global Exchange and Brokerage Conference, on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, at New York, NY, at 8 a.m. ET.
E*TRADE Financial Corporation, a financial services company, provides brokerage and related products and services primarily to individual retail investors under the E*TRADE Financial brand name.
Shares of Chico’s FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS), declined -0.35% to $ 16.96, during its last trading session.
Chico’s FAS, declared that David F. Dyer has informed the Board of Directors of his intention to retire as President and CEO after the conclusion of the 2015 fiscal year, in the spring of 2016. To ensure an orderly transition, he will continue in his present role until a successor is designated. After a successor is named, Mr. Dyer will remain on the Board in the newly-created role of Vice Chairman through his current term, which ends at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders in June 2016.
The Board of Directors has established a Succession Planning committee to identify Mr. Dyer’s successor and has retained Herbert Mines Associates, a leading executive search firm with particular expertise in the retail industry, to assist in the process.
Chico’s FAS, Inc. operates as an omni-channel specialty retailer of women’s private branded, casual-to-dressy clothing, intimates, complementary accessories, and other non-clothing items.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE:GXP), lost -0.08% to $ 26.27.
Great Plains Energy, declared first quarter 2015 earnings of $18.5 million or $0.12 per share of average common stock outstanding, contrast with first quarter 2014 earnings of $23.4 million or $0.15 per share. The Company is also affirming its 2015 earnings guidance range of $1.35 to $1.60 per share.
The state-of-the-art environmental control equipment at the Company’s La Cygne generating station has been placed into service and final costs are predictable to be below budget. Over the last decade, Great Plains Energy has invested about $1.5 billion in emission control equipment at its coal fired units to support regional air quality improvement.
On a per-share basis, the first quarter 2015 contrast to the same period in 2014 was favorably influenced by a $0.05 decrease in operating and maintenance expense, counting $0.03 due to lower operating and maintenance expense at the Wolf Creek nuclear unit regarding the planned 2014 mid-cycle maintenance outage and a decrease in refueling outage amortization and about $0.01 from a decrease in distribution operating and maintenance expense.
The factors above were more than offset by the following:
- An approximate $0.05 impact from weather driven by a 13 percent decrease in heating degree days;
- $0.02 enhance in depreciation and amortization; and
- About a $0.01 decrease in other margin.
Great Plains Energy Incorporated, through its auxiliaries, generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity in the United States. It also provides regulated steam services in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Finally, JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (ADR) (NASDAQ:JASO), ended its last trade with -2.02% gain, and closed at $ 8.71.
JA Solar Holdings, declared that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with its Indian business partner, Essel Infra-projects Limited, to establish a solar cell and module manufacturing facility joint venture. The MOU declares a 500MW production capacity for the JV and outlines the duties of each party.
The agreement was reached on May 16th at the India-China Business Forum held in Shanghai , where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Chinese national leaders, and commercial and industrial representatives of both countries were in attendance, counting JA Solar and its partner, EIL.
Cooperation opportunities in the photovoltaic industry were a special focus at the Forum, as the leaders agreed that the establishment of a photovoltaic park should be a precedingity on the agenda. More than twenty different agreements were signed by representatives at the forum, representing up to 22 billion U.S. dollars in total investments.
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., together with its auxiliaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells photovoltaic solar cells and solar power products based on crystalline silicon technologies.
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