On Thursday, Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (NYSE:PXD)’s shares climbed, as Pioneer Natural declared that Tim Dove, President and Chief Operations Officer, will present at The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) Oil & Gas Investment Symposium on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 2:25 p.m. Eastern.
Any interested person may listen to the live presentation and view the presentation slides during the conference, or hear an archived version afterwards, by logging on to Pioneer’s website at www.pxd.com, selecting ‘Investors,’ and then selecting ‘Investor Presentations.’
Pioneer Natural Resources Company engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the United States. The company produces and sells oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and gas. It has operations primarily in the Permian Basin in West Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas, the Raton field in southeastern Colorado, and the West Panhandle field in the Texas Panhandle.
Eastman Chemical Co. (NYSE:EMN)’s shares jumped during the last trading session on Thursday, as a specialty chemical company, plans First-Quarter 2015 Financial Results News Release and SEC Form 8-K Filing, Teleconference and Webcast on Thursday, April 30, 2015, at about 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Eastman Chemical Company, a specialty chemical company, manufactures and sells materials, chemicals, and fibers in the United States and internationally. The companys Additives & Functional Products segment offers solvents, such as specialty coalescents and ketones and esters, glycol ethers, and alcohol solvents; cellulose and polyester-based specialty polymers, and paint additives; insoluble sulfur products; antidegradants; hydrocarbon resins; specialty intermediates, performance products, and formic acid; and alkylamine derivatives.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV)’s shares climbed, as on April 2, F5 Networks declared its new Security Operations Center (SOC) facility located at the company’s headquarters in Seattle. The SOC supports customers using the Silverline™ cloud-based application services platform by providing 24/7 access to highly specialized F5 security experts who monitor global layer 4-7 attack activities in real time.
KEY BENEFITS OF THE SOC:
- Ensures 24/7 threat monitoring and responses: Support, monitoring, and security threat response from an expert team with leading-edge technology—accessible 365 days a year.
- Shuts down phishing sites efficiently: Stop malicious sites or drop zones in hours and before malicious campaigns are executed.
- Maintains up-to-date global threat intelligence: Constant monitoring of the fraud threat landscape, and analysis of security risks and attack trends threatening global enterprises. The F5 SOC receives ongoing updates from the F5 global web fraud and security customer base, in addition to from reputable information outlets and other sources around the world. F5 then passes this information on to customers.
- Detects and Mitigates DDoS Attacks: Keep networks online during attacks with 24/7 DDoS detection and mitigation capabilities.
- Analyzes malware: Recognize and safeguard against sophisticated threats, counting Web injection, credential grabbing, man-in-the-browser (MITB), man-in-the-middle (MITM), session hijacking, password stealers, and more.
- Easily set-up: F5 SOC services can be activated quickly to support F5® WebSafe™, F5® MobileSafe™, and DDoS Protection.
F5 Networks, Inc. develops, markets, and sells application delivery networking products that optimize the security, performance, and availability of network applications, servers, and storage systems. It offers Local Traffic Manager, which provides intelligent load-balancing and traffic administration; Global Traffic Manager that automatically directs users to the closest or best-performing data center; Link Controller, which monitors the health and availability of each connection in organizations with more than one Internet service provider; Advanced Firewall Manager to guard data centers against incoming threats that enter the network on the deployed protocols; and Application Security Manager, an application firewall that provides comprehensive, proactive, and application-layer protection against generalized and targeted attacks.
Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE:GNW), ended its Thursday’s trading session in Green, as Genworth declared the 2015 Cost of Care study during a New York City panel event “The Many Faces of Aging: Examining Long Term Care from a Boomer and Millennial Perspective.”
The 2015 Cost of Care study shows a ongoing upward trajectory of the cost of obtaining long term care services. The cost of receiving care in a setting such as an assisted living facility or nursing home is dramatically increasing, while the cost to receive care at home through homemaker services or a home health aide is rising more gradually.
Rising Cost of Long Term Care
Nationally, the 2015 median hourly cost for the services of a homemaker or home health aide hired from a home care agency is $19.50 and $20, respectively. Homemaker costs have risen on average 1.6 percent annually over the past five years. Home health aide services have risen, on average, one percent annually over the past five years.
The cost to receive care in an assisted living facility is rising at a much faster rate. The median annual cost for care in an assisted living facility is $43,200. This represents an average raise of 2.5 percent over the past five years. The comparable cost for a private nursing home room is $91,250, which has raised 4 percent annually over the past five years.
Genworth Financial, Inc. provides insurance, retirement, and homeownership solutions in the United States and internationally. It operates through U.S. Life Insurance, International Mortgage Insurance, U.S. Mortgage Insurance, International Protection, and Runoff segments. The U.S. Life Insurance segment offers and manages various life insurance, long-term care insurance, and fixed annuity products.
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