Articles From: Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. Increases Quarterly Common Stock Dividend to PULSE: U.S. stocks end lower, halting record-setting run


2013/5/9
ATLANTA , May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE MKT: APTS), or the Company, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock of $0.15 per share for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of $.005 per share or approximately 3.4% from the prior quarterly dividend rate of $0.145 per share paid to common stockholders for the first quarter of 2013.
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2013/5/9
Priceline.com Inc.'s (PCLN) first-quarter earnings grew 34% as the online-travel agent continued to benefit from strong international bookings growth.
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2013/5/9
Priceline.com Inc.'s (PCLN) first-quarter earnings grew 34% as the online-travel agent continued to benefit from strong international bookings growth.
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2013/5/9
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2013/5/9
Primoris Services Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: PRIM) (“Primoris” or “Company”) today announced two new contract awards totaling over $40 million.
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2013/5/9
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) , a big data software company, today announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Charles H.
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2013/5/9
Bruce Karpati has been named chief compliance officer for Prudential Investments, the mutual fund manufacturing and distribution business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) , the company announced today.
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2013/5/9
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced that management will speak at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Thursday, May 16 th , 2013 at 12:00pm (ET). Please note that statements made at the conference are as of the date of the conference and PTC does not assume any obligation to update any statements made live or the archived call.
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2013/5/9
Public Storage's (PSA) first-quarter profit rose 2.6% as the real-estate investment trust saw higher rents and occupancy.
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2013/5/9
Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) announced today operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI fell nearly 7% to $14.20 on Thursday morning after the videogame publisher reported first-quarter results that included a drop of 1.3 million subscribers for its popular "World of Warcraft" online game, which is facing more competition from free-to-play games.
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2013/5/9
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- AES Corp.
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2013/5/9
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Apache Corp.
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2013/5/9
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Barnes & Noble Inc. BKS soared 23% in premarket trade on Thursday, after TechCrunch reported that Microsoft Corp.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- California sued J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
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2013/5/9
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Costco Wholesale Corp.
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2013/5/9
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Dean Foods Co.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - The Facebook Inc. FB executive who led some of the social network's key mobile initiatives is leaving the company, it was announced Thursday.
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2013/5/9
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Facebook Inc. FB is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli traffic and navigation mobile app Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, according to Israeli publication Calcalist on Thursday.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Groupon Inc. GRPN rose sharply Thursday after reporting better-than-expected results, but the tech sector was weighed down by plunging shares of Rackspace Hosting RAX .
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2013/5/9
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management are launching a fresh offer for Dell Inc. DELL as an alternative to a takover bid from founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, according to separate reports from The Wall Street Journal and CNBC late Thursday.
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2013/5/9
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- L Brands Inc., LTD which used to be known as Limited Brands, said Thursday same-store sales for April rose 2%. L Brands reported net sales that rose to $660.5 million in April from $659 million in the year-ago period.
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2013/5/9
Manchester United has tapped David Moyes to replace retiring manager Alex Ferguson, the BBC reported.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Nvidia Corp.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Priceline.com Inc. PCLN on Thursday reported a first-quarter profit of $244 million, or $4.76 a share, on revenue of $1.3 billion, compared with earnings of $182 million, or $3.54 a share, on $1.04 billion in sales in the same period a year ago.
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2013/5/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Galaxy S4 smartphone from Samsung Electronics has a higher production cost for its international version than for the device that is sold in the U.S., a tear-down report by IHS iSuppli found.
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2013/5/9
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks ended moderately lower on Thursday, halting Wall Street's record-setting streak, even as data showed that weekly jobless claims fell to a five-year low.
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