Economic reports this week could give clues on when the Federal Reserve may raise its benchmark interest rate. Companies in the US added 212,000 workers to payrolls in February, figures from Roseland, New Jersey-based ADP Research Institute showed. The median projection of 46 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for an advance of 219,000. The January reading was revised to 250,000 from a formerly stated advance of 213,000.
The data comes before the labour department’s report Friday in which economists predict nonfarm payrolls rose 235,000 last month and the unemployment rate fell to 5.6% from 5.7% in January.
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Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOXA)’s shares declined -0.84%, and is now trading at $35.34. The Stock is active as 8.72M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 14.27M shares.
Formerly on February 26, Fox Networks Group (FNG), 21st Century Fox’s industry-leading portfolio of global broadcast and pay television channels, recently designated Joe Marchese to the new role of President, Advanced Advertising Products. Mr. Marchese, who served as the CEO of true[X] until the Corporation’s recent attainment by 21st Century Fox, will lead FNG’s operations in non-linear advertising products and services. As part of his FNG role, Mr. Marchese will continue to oversee true[X].
The declaration was made by Randy Freer, President and COO of Fox Networks Group, to whom Mr. Marchese will report.
Preceding to his role at FNG, Mr. Marchese was the CEO of true[X], the leading engagement advertising corporation he founded in 2007 that specializes in ad formats for on-demand media. Through his work at true[X], Joe is known throughout the advertising industry as a pioneer with extensive and unique expertise in engagement marketing.
Fox Networks Group is a primary operating unit of 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and comprises of Fox Broadcasting Corporation (FOX), FOX Sports Media Group, the corporation’s national and regional cable programming services, FOX International Channels and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations.
FireEye Inc (NASDAQ:FEYE), dipped -3.02%, and is now trading at $43.71. The Stock is active as 4.67M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 8.39M shares.
FireEye Inc., the leader at stopping today’s advanced cyber attacks, recently declared a new product integration with Samsung to enhance enterprise risk administration on Samsung KNOX-enabled devices. The integrated solution intercepts apps before they are installed on the device and uses FireEye® Mobile Threat Prevention™ to determine risk status, analyze, detect and block high-risk apps, in addition to notify users of behaviors consistent with malware activity.
FireEye researchers reviewed Google Play apps with more than 50,000 downloads, and found that 31 percent of them contained remote exploitable vulnerabilities. The FireEye and Samsung integrated solution is designed to assist discover potentially harmful apps and proactively mitigate risk on Samsung KNOX-enabled devices. The new integration uses Samsung’s secure APIs to enable FireEye to suspend an app from running on supported Samsung devices until it has analyzed the application for security risks.
The FireEye Mobile Security team will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 2-5, 2015 and will be demonstrating the integrated solution at the Samsung booth. Visitors at the event will be eligible to receive a free 90 day license to FireEye Mobile Threat Prevention.
FireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. These highly sophisticated cyber attacks easily circumvent traditional signature-based defenses, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways.
The Blackstone Group L.P (NYSE:BX), enhanced 0.42%, and is now trading at $38.01, hitting new 52-week high of $38.52. The Stock is active as 3.27M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 4.65M shares.
The Blackstone Group L.P (NYSE:BX), formerly on February 27, declared that it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014.
Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment firms. We seek to create positive economic influence and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work.
Sprint Corp (NYSE:S), dropped -1.15%, and is now trading at $5.18. The Stock is active as 3.05M shares changed hands versus its average volume of 18.52M shares. The company has the market capitalization of $20.92B. On the other hand the stock’s volatility for the week is 4.93%, and for the month is 4.65%. The stock price to book value is $0.94, however price to sale value is $0.59. Analyst’s mean recommendation regarding this stock is 2.70. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Formerly on February 27, Best Buy (BBY) and Sprint (NYSE:S) recently introduced a simple way to get a wireless phone, simplifying the wireless selection process for customers. The Best Buy One Plan (SM), an industry-first, all inclusive plan, gives customers unlimited talk, text and data, plus the hottest Sprint smartphones, for one low monthly price. This plan is accessible exclusively at Best Buy locations nationwide starting March 1.
Sprint (NYSE:S) is a communications services corporation that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about most. Sprint served nearly 56 million connections as of Dec. 31, 2014, and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, counting the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States.
