During Thursday’s current trade, Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE)’s shares gained 0.14%, and is now trading at $34.69, after a biopharmaceutical corporation, declared the launch of a new competitive grants program the corporation is funding to support research projects investigating the role of Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexin type 9 (PCSK9) in health and cardiovascular disease. This competitive grants program, which is an extension of the Advancing Science through Pfizer Investigator Research Exchange (ASPIRE) Cardiovascular program, is part of Pfizer’s ongoing commitment to translate scientific discoveries into innovative medicines for patients with cardiovascular disease. Pfizer presently is studying bococizumab, an investigational PCSK9 inhibitor, in a Phase 3 clinical trial program, known as SPIRE (Studies of PCSK9 Inhibition and the Reduction of vascular Events), for its potential to lower low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and improve cardiovascular outcomes.
Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, remains a global, public health issue despite many advances in treatment. The first annual ASPIRE Cardiovascular competitive grants program will fund multiple grants of up to $100,000 each to support research designed to uncover new insights about the role of the PCSK9 protein/gene in health and disease.
Pfizer Inc., a biopharmaceutical corporation, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products worldwide. The corporation operates through Global Innovative Pharmaceutical (GIP); Global Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare (VOC); and Global Established Pharmaceutical (GEP) segments.
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)’s shares dropped -0.69% during the current trading session Thursday, and is now trading at $26.05, as EMC Corporation, will publish its first-quarter 2015 financial results on April 22, 2015 at about 7:00 a.m. ET. EMC will also issue an advisory news release on April 22, 2015 announcing availability of the results via the EMC Investor Relations (http://www.emc.com/ir) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcorporation&CIK=0000790070&owner=exclude&count=40) websites.
EMC will hold a conference call for investors at 8:30 a.m. ET on April 22 to review the first-quarter 2015 financial results. A live webcast of that call will be accessible on the EMC Investor Relations website.
EMC Corporation develops, delivers, and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions, and services. It offers enterprise storage systems and software deployed in storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, object storage, and/or direct attached storage environments, in addition to provides a portfolio of backup products that support a range of enterprise application workloads.
During mid-morning trade, AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T)’s shares climbed 0.21%, and is now trading at $32.72, after AT&T, invested more than $80 million in its best-in-class wireless and wired networks in North Dakota from 2012 through 2014, driving a wide range of upgrades to reliability, coverage, speed and performance for residents and business customers.
As part of its Project Velocity IP (VIP), an investment plan focused on network enhancement and expansion, AT&T in 2014 made 105 network upgrades in North Dakota, counting new cell sites and wireless and wired network capacity upgrades.
AT&T was recently recognized by FORTUNE magazine as the Most Admired Telecommunications Corporation in the world in 2015. Additionally, FORTUNE ranked AT&T #47 among all companies in all industries in its list of the Top 50 Most Admired companies in the world. FORTUNE’s Most Admired Companies lists are among the most highly respected indicators of corporate performance and reputation.
AT&T Inc. provides telecommunications services in the United States and internationally. The corporation operates through two segments, Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless segment offers data and voice services, counting local, long-distance, and network access services, in addition to roaming services to youth, family, professionals, small businesses, government, and business customers.
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc. (NYSE:SRC), during its Thursday’s current trading session lost -1.81%, and is now trading at $11.89, after a publicly traded real estate investment trust, declared the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 20 million shares of its ordinary stock, at $11.85 per share, resulting in $237 million of total estimated gross proceeds. Spirit has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to three million additional shares of ordinary stock. The offering is predictable to close on April 14, 2015, subject to customary closing conditions.
Spirit intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay the outstanding balance under its unsecured revolving credit facility, to fund potential future attainments and for general corporate purposes.
Morgan Stanley is acting as the sole book-runner for the offering. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus for the offering may be obtained, when accessible, by contacting Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department.
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc is a publicly traded real estate investment trust. The firm primarily attains across the United States single tenant operationally essential real estate, which refers to generally free-standing, commercial real estate facilities where tenants conduct retail, service or distribution activities that are essential to the generation of their sales and profits.
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