Big Movers : Alcoa (NYSE:AA), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ:CTAS), The Valspar Corporation (NYSE:VAL), PICO Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PICO)

The Board of Directors of Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) declared (a) a quarterly common stock dividend of 3 cents per share payable August 25, 2014 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 8, 2014 and (b) a quarterly dividend of 93.75 cents per share on Alcoa’s $3.75 cumulative preferred stock payable October…

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Active Watch List : Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA), Trulia (NYSE:TRLA), Becton, Dickinson (NYSE:BDX), Ecolab (NYSE:ECL), United Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:UCBA)

The Board of Directors of Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) declared (a) a quarterly common stock dividend of 3 cents per share payable August 25, 2014 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 8, 2014 and (b) a quarterly dividend of 93.75 cents per share on Alcoa’s $3.75 cumulative preferred stock payable October…

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Basic Material Active Movers: Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras (NYSE:PBR), Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), Vale (NYSE:VALE), SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD), The Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW)

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, raised to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays. Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR) (NYSE:PBR) stock performance was 0.70% in last session and finished the day at $17.19. Traded volume was 12.03million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 20.51million shares. The beta…

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Basic Material Active Stocks: Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras (NYSE:PBR), Vale (NYSE:VALE), Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM)

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR) (NYSE:PBR) has reached 500,000 b/d in production from the Brazilian presalt, a region that has already seen aggregate output of 343 million boe (OGJ Online, June 20, 2014). The company, which didn’t reach the same level of total production until 31 years after it launched, made its first discovery in the…

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Top Movers: BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Fujitsu (OTCMKTS:FJTSY)

Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) sold most of its Canadian real estate — more than 3 million square feet — earlier this year for $278 million. Last Thursday the company announced that it has agreed to sell an R&D facility in Germany to Volkswagen for an undisclosed sum. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) stock performance was -0.47%…

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Basic Material Movers: USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU), Vale (NYSE:VALE), Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), Molycorp Inc (NYSE:MCP), Kinross Gold (NYSE:KGC)

USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU), on June 27, 2014, through Amendment no. 003 in the previous contract, agreed to let UT-Battelle act as the operator and administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Both the companies had signed an agreement on 1st of May, 2014, whereby UT-Battelle was assigned the tasks of demonstration, research and development of the…

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