Stocks’ Technical Roundup: ArcelorMittal SA (ADR) (NYSE:MT), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
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Shares of ArcelorMittal SA (ADR) (NYSE:MT) gained 0.66% to $25.88 on Thursday, soon after a holding company that owns and operates steel manufacturing and mining facilities in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa posted 2Q profit. The company on Thursday stated second-quarter earnings of $1.32 billion. The Luxembourg-based company said it had profit of $1.29 per share. Earnings, adjusted for asset impairment costs, were $1.33 per share. The steel producer posted revenue of $17.24 billion in the period.
The stock price floated in a range of $25.45 to $26.27. The stock moved on low volume, traded at a volume of 6.95M shares, as compared to its average daily volume of 8.41M shares. The market capitalization for the company is reported at $26.43B.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) declined -12.80 points or -1.33% at the market. Alphabet Inc’s Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said on Thursday.
The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said.
Google’s pledge marked an expansion of a program it launched in April 2016 to train young Africans in digital skills. It declared in March it had reached its initial target of training one million people.
The company is “committing to prepare another 10 million people for jobs of the future in the next five years,” Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai told a company conference in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos.
Google said it will offer a combination of in-person and online training. Google has said on its blog that it carries out the training in languages counting Swahili, Hausa and Zulu and tries to ensure that at least 40 percent of people trained are women. It did not say how much the program cost.
Africa, with its rapid population growth, falling data costs and heavy adoption of mobile phones, having mostly leapfrogged personal computer use, is tempting for tech companies. Executives such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s chairman Jack Ma have also recently toured parts of the continent.
But countries like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, which Google said it would at first target for its mobile developer training, may not offer as much opportunity as the likes of China and India for tech firms. (Source: Reuters)
The stock opened at $969.18. It reached an intraday trading high of $969.52 and closed at $952.51. The total volume traded for the day is 3.71M, as compared to its average daily volume of 1.98M shares. The current EPS for the company has been recorded at $27.62 and the beta value recorded by the company stands at 1.00 points.
