Headlines: On Friday, Apple was among those stocks that managed to buck the trend and eke out a small gain.
The corporation will replace AT&T in the Dow Jones industrial average on March 19, the manager of the index declared Friday. S&P Dow Jones, which manages the index, cast the move as a sort of a housekeeping maneuver, a way of ensuring that the index better reflects the U.S. economy and markets.
Insights about U.S. Stocks that landed in the Active-Zone during Friday’s trade, are depicted underneath:
QUALCOMM, Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM)’s shares picked up 0.81%, and traded at $71.50. The Stock is active as 12.02M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 13.53M shared.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM), declared that its partner, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), has added the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X12 LTE modem (9×40) and Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X5 LTE modem (9×28) to Snapdragon Automotive Solutions to support connectivity across all tiers of the automotive industry. The Snapdragon X12 LTE modem (9×40) is designed to enable auto manufacturers to develop next-generation systems with advanced telematics and connected infotainment features while supporting greater coverage at download speeds up to Category 10 (up to 450 Mbps in the downlink and 100 Mbps in the uplink). The Snapdragon X5 LTE modem (9×28) is designed to enable automakers to broadly deploy LTE in all cars at download speeds up to Category 4 (up to 150 Mbps in the downlink and 50 Mbps in the uplink).
In addition to leading LTE features, these multimode modems provide support for all major 3G/2G cellular standards, on-chip integration of global position (GNSS) support for all major constellations, and a 1 GHz processor with Linux and built-in software for key global regulatory mandates like EU eCall and ERA Glonass. The Snapdragon X12 and X5 LTE modems for automotive inter-work with a companion Qualcomm® VIVE™ QCA65x4 chipset with superior Wi-Fi/BT to support consumer features like Wi-Fi 802.11ac hotspots and safety applications like vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) with a seamless combination of Wi-Fi, DSRC and LTE. The Snapdragon X12 modem is sampling now and Snapdragon X5 LTE modem is predictable to sample in 2H, 2015.
Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated comprises Qualcomm’s licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio.
Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO), dipped-1.63%, and traded at $43.44. The Stock is active as 11.89M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 20.91M shares. The stock has the beta value of 1.11, and its volatility for the week is 2.96%, while for the month it is 2.10%. The company has the market capitalization of $40.67B. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.20.(where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Yahoo! Inc. provides search and display advertising services on Yahoo properties and associate sites worldwide. The corporation offers Yahoo Search that serves as a starting point to navigate the Internet and discover information; and Yahoo Answers, which enables users to seek, discover, and share knowledge and opinions across mobile phones, tablets, and desktops.
Juniper Networks, Inc (NYSE:JNPR) enhanced 1.81%, and traded at $23.57. The Stock is active as 11.63M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 4.57M shares.
Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR), the leader in network innovation, and Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience solutions, will showcase an automated virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) solution to meet enterprise customer demands for new, user-defined services here at Mobile World Congress. The jointly developed offering will be demonstrated at Amdocs’ booth (Hall 3, Booth 3G10).
The Amdocs Network Cloud Service Orchestrator allows provisioning and rapid fulfillment of both virtual and physical network functions services. As part of the joint offering, Juniper and Amdocs are also providing a user portal for self-service selection, a service catalog and service creation capability, and a wide range of delivery and managed services options to assist service providers transition to an IT cloud operating model.
Juniper Networks (JNPR) delivers innovation across routing, switching and security. From the network core down to consumer devices, Juniper Networks’ innovations in software, silicon and systems transform the experience and economics of networking.
Metlife Inc (NYSE:MET), enhanced 1.74%, and traded at $52.64. The Stock is active as 11.56M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 8.10M shares.
MetLife, Inc. (MET), declared that it has confirmed its formerly declared declaration of the first quarter 2015 dividends of $0.2500000 per share on the corporation’s floating rate non-cumulative preferred stock, Series A (NYSE: METPrA), and $0.4062500 per share on the corporation’s 6.50% non-cumulative preferred stock, Series B (NYSE: METPrB).
The New York Stock Exchange has not yet set ex-dividend dates for each series of preferred stock. Following this confirmatory declaration, the New York Stock Exchange will set ex-dividend dates for each series of preferred stock. Both dividends will be payable March 16, 2015, to shareholders of record as of Feb. 28, 2015.
MetLife, Inc. (MET), through its auxiliaries and associates (“MetLife”), is one of the largest life insurance companies in the world. Founded in 1868, MetLife is a global provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset administration.
