2015-10-01

On Wednesday, Shares of Qlik Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:QLIK), gained 3.29% to $36.45.

As featured during the plenary session on climate and resiliency at the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, Qlik (QLIK), a leader in visual analytics, and its CEO Lars Björk, declared a new multi-year CGI Commitment to Action to address water availability and quality issues across the globe. By assisting to inform and impact important water decisions such as allocation, policy changes, crisis response, and infrastructure improvements, Qlik and its partners will collaborate on a ground breaking comprehensive visualization dashboard leveraging the Qlik analytics platform to unite historical big data, real-time information, on-the-ground reportage, and public engagement.

The world’s demand for fresh water is growing while water scarcity is disrupting energy production, triggering food shortages, upending economic development, and threatening political stability. The urgent impacts are felt from the U.S., which lost a full point of GDP in 2012 due to a severe, ongoing drought, to Asia, the Middle East and South America, where drought and floods triggered serious disruptions and political unrest.

Qlik Technologies Inc. provides user-driven business intelligence solutions that enable customers to make business decisions. The company develops, commercializes, and implements software products and related services. It offers QlikView, which enables business users to explore data; ask and answer their own stream of questions; and follow their own path to insight on their own, or collaborate across teams and organizations.

Shares of Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ:RPTP), inclined 6.33% to $6.05, during its last trading session.

Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp, declared that it took part in the following investor conference:

Julie Anne Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer, took part in the Leerink Partners 4th Annual Rare Disease Roundtable held Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York.

Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing life-altering therapeutics that treat debilitating and often fatal diseases. The company offers PROCYSBI, a delayed-release capsule, which is used for the administration of nephropathic cystinosis in adults, in addition to in six years and older children in the United States, in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland.

At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Shares of Arch Coal Inc (NYSE:ACI), lost -0.60% to $3.30.

Arch Coal, declared the extension of its (i) pending private offer to exchange (the “2020 Exchange Offer”) new 6.25% Trust Certificates due 2021 (the “Trust Certificates”) and a cash payment for any and all of its outstanding 7.25% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) and (ii) pending concurrent private offer to exchange (the “Concurrent Exchange Offer” and, together with the 2020 Exchange Offer, the “Exchange Offers”) Trust Certificates, 8.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2022 (the “New 2022 Secured Notes”) and 12.00% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2023 (the “New 2023 Secured Notes”) for its outstanding 7.000% Senior Notes due 2019 (“Old 7.000% 2019 Notes”), 9.875% Senior Notes due 2019 (“Old 9.875% 2019 Notes”) and 7.250% Senior Notes due 2021 (“Old 7.250% 2021 Notes” and, together with the Old 7.000% 2019 Notes and the Old 9.875% 2019 Notes, the “Old Notes”).

The 2020 Exchange Offer, formerly set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on September 23, 2015, has been extended and is now set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on October 26, 2015. The Concurrent Exchange Offer, formerly set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on September 23, 2015, has been extended and is now set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on October 26, 2015. Additionally, the Early Tender Time for the Concurrent Exchange Offer, formerly set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on September 23, 2015, has been extended and is now set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on October 26, 2015. The Withdrawal Deadline for the Exchange Offers has passed, so 2020 Notes tendered in the 2020 Exchange Offer and Old Notes tendered in the Concurrent Exchange Offer may no longer be withdrawn.

Arch Coal, Inc. produces and sells thermal and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines located in the United States. As of December 31, 2014, it operated or contracted out the operation of 16 mines; and owned or controlled about 5.1 billion tons of proven and probable recoverable reserves.

Finally, Shares of Principal Financial Group Inc (NYSE:PFG), ended its last trade with 1.18% gain, and closed at $47.34.

Between 2013 and 2015, the number of investors indicating they would use multi-asset class funds in the subsequent three years raised significantly across multiple investor types. This according to the findings detailed in a paper released recently by CREATE-Research and commissioned by the Principal Financial Group.

The paper Asset Allocation: Survival of the Fleetest, analyzes data from the 2013-2015 CREATE-Research surveys, with a focus on asset allocation investment trends in the defined benefit, defined contribution, retail, and high net worth investor classes. While the search for yield is nothing new, it has intensified significantly in the two years analyzed. Investors are abandoning their asset class preference for a multi-asset approach that chases short-term opportunities in the face of valuation-distorting quantitative easing programs in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement, asset administration, and insurance products and services. It operates through Retirement and Investor Services, Principal Global Investors, Principal International, and U.S. Insurance Solutions segments.

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