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Described by The Drum as “the world’s biggest shop window for news content”, Reuters Connect features over 15 million assets from Reutersand partners including BBC, Variety, USA Today, Newsflare and more.
Reuters Connect offers unrivalled coverage in every multimedia format that includes live video, breaking news and archive content, as well as sports, business, entertainment.
The platform provides customers seeking high-quality content with an impressive array of providers in a single, trusted destination.
What led Reuters to set up the service?
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Traditionally, Reuters customers were limited to picking single products, for example sports video, via an all-you-can-eat commercial model. This posed an issue because clients only saw what they subscribed to (the equivalent of this would be going to Ikea to buy a lamp and only seeing lamps).
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It offers immediate access to raw and ready-to-publish coverage with live video, breaking news and archive content dating back to 1896 from Reuters and our chosen partners.
Our growing marketplace spans every multimedia format including video, text, pictures and graphics and opens up a window to the world through the lens of entertainment, sports, business, technology and more.
How do partners play a role in Connect?
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In addition to Reuters award-winning coverage, we have enlisted some of the world’s most respected media outlets, such as the BBC and CNN, as well as leading sector authorities, including sports coverage from USA Today and Perform, and entertainment coverage from Variety and WENN to offer a world of content in one convenient location.
This growing partner portfolio offers a whole new level of access to content that today’s broadcasters and publishers cannot find elsewhere.
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National Geographic, one of the world’s most renowned sources of stunning photography, now offers Reuters Connect customers captivating images of wildlife, culture, history and the environment, from the ever-growing National Geographic Image Collection.
PBS NewsHour provides footage from the US and around the world, including content from current news locations, as well as historic and evergreen footage from the NewsHour’s rich 40-year-old archive.
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As Reuters Connect continues to emerge as the ultimate media marketplace, niche media houses and large broadcasters alike have the opportunity to contribute to the Connect platform and trade alongside the world’s largest international multimedia news provider.
PRs can be confident that by partnering with Reuters, their clients’ content can reach a more diverse and global audience, with the added benefit of increased brand recognition and prestige.
Finally, do you anticipate adding content from other brands to Reuters Connect’s portfolio?
We plan to double our family of partners this year. Although this is ambitious, we’re careful about selecting partners to ensure the content they provide is compelling and meets customer demand.
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Food Regulations: Truth & Consequences
By Bob Gatty
Separating fact from fiction on the National Uniformity for Food Act
One of the top legislative priorities for the Snack Food Association this year is the National Uniformity for Food Act, which provides for national, uniform safety standards and warning requirements for food products. The SFA believes this legislation is critical to eliminating confusion and providing strong, consistent safeguards for consumers and food companies alike.
The bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to create a system that not only recognizes the role of state and local governments in the regulation of food products, but that also integrates them into the national system.
“Food regulation currently is composed of a variety of different and sometimes inconsistent requirements that make it very difficult for companies that sell and distribute products across state lines,” SFA president and CEO Jim McCarthy explains. “The bill simply seeks to harmonize those differences to eliminate this confusion and complexity.”
National uniformity is not a new concept. In fact, Congress has repeatedly recognized the importance of uniformity in food regulation, McCarthy says, noting that the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (1990), the Food Quality Protection Act (1996), the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Meat Inspection Act all contain uniformity provisions.
However, the measure has come under fire by opponents who contend that the act would weaken food safety and labeling laws and thus be harmful to consumers.
“That simply is not the case,” McCarthy says. “The bill takes a measured approach to national uniformity for food by providing a mechanism for a thorough, orderly review of existing state regulations that may differ from a federal regulation.”
Approved by the House and now being considered in the Senate, the legislation allows for the states to petition the FDA to adopt their rules as a national requirement or exempt it from national uniformity. No existing state requirement that differs from a federal requirement would be preempted without the opportunity for petition, and state requirements would remain in effect while the FDA considers the states’ petitions, McCarthy notes.
During the SFA’s Day in D.C. Summit this spring, many SFA members met with members of Congress and showed their support of the bill. They were encouraged by the response and are hopeful that their contacts and the continued efforts of the SFA through its lobbying activities and the National Uniformity for Foods Coalition will bear fruit.
If enacted, the new measure would not result in an instant and dramatic change in food safety and labeling laws. Instead, uniformity would be achieved gradually as the FDA acts on the states’ petitions, either adopting them as national requirements or concluding that they should not continue in effect. FDA’s decisions on state petitions would occur only after public input through a comment process.
The bill also provides that where FDA has acted by setting a safety standard for a food ingredient or constituent, the states would adopt and enforce the same standard. If the FDA has not set a safety standard for a particular substance in food, the states would remain free to set and enforce their own standard.
In addition, the bill would provide for national uniformity in product warnings. States would not be permitted to require the regulated industry to communicate a warning in labeling, advertising or any other form of public communication if that warning differs from that imposed under Federal law. The authority of the states to issue warnings remains unhindered. In fact, they remain free to issue their own public warnings under state laws at any time and under any circumstance.
Moreover, the authority of the states to act if presented with an imminent hazard is preserved.
The bill does not affect state authority in several areas that are traditional local food enforcement matters: freshness dating, open date labeling, grade labeling, state inspection stamp, religious dietary labeling, organic or natural designation, returnable bottle labeling, unit pricing, and statement of geographic origin.
Existing provisions related to food sanitation are not subject to national uniformity. Traditional federal/state/industry cooperative sanitation programs related to restaurants and retail stores would not be affected. Existing state requirements for shellfish warnings also would not be affected.
National uniformity does not apply to the federal or state enforcement powers (embargo, recall, or other enforcement powers).
During the 109th Congress, the House passed the National Uniformity for Food Act (H.R. 4167) by a vote of 283-139. The bill was introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) and was co-sponsored by 225 additional representatives.
“We are hopeful that Congress will enact this legislation before it recesses for the fall election campaigns,” McCarthy says. “There are not many legislative days left on the calendar, given the upcoming August recess, but we will continue to work hard to win approval.”
What the bill DOES:
Makes food safety regulations for packaged food consistent across all 50 states and under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration.
Provides consumers with a single set of consistent, science-based food safety regulations.
Curbs regulatory burdens on all businesses by setting a single set of national guidelines.
Extends to packaged food the same consumer protections as in other areas of federal regulation, including meat, poultry, nutrition labeling, and drugs and medical devices.
Establishes a procedure requiring the FDA to evaluate state regulations different than its own and consider applying that state’s standards nationally.
What the bill DOES NOT do:
Makes policy regarding food safety enforcement.
Restricts states’ enforcement powers.
Makes policy regarding sanitation or changes state authority in this area.
Makes policy regarding the handling of hazardous foods.
Alter states’ food safety programs, including inspections, analysis and dairy sampling. Require states to follow federal procedures that may be more time-consuming.
Pre-empt existing state food safety requirements without a thorough FDA evaluation.
Prevent states from taking enforcement action without federal action or approval, so long as state food safety laws are the same as the federal.
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DENVER — After more than 30 years in jewelry design, John Atencio has built a reputation for heavier rings, necklaces and earrings.
So when gold prices topped $730 an ounce earlier this year, he became more conscious of how thick his pieces are - and the accompanying higher costs. While retailers such as Helzberg Diamonds say they've seen some designers using less gold in each piece, Atencio has been reluctant to change his style.
''When it got over $700, then the red lights were going off,'' Atencio said. ''Then it was kind of like: 'God, how high is it going to go, and are we going to be in business?'''
Gold prices have fallen 22 percent since May 12, when they reached a 26-year high of $732 per ounce but are still close to $600 an ounce. Jewelers are accepting lower profit margins, feeling pressure to raise prices and sometimes tweaking their designs.
Customers, meanwhile, are still coming. U.S. sales actually seem to be rising, said John Calnon of the World Gold Council.
''It's a counterintuitive approach,'' he said. ''With gold in the news constantly, the consumer is thinking about gold.''
U.S. prices for gold jewelry are more dependent on the design rather than the gold itself, he said, and customers tend to buy it for adornment rather than as an investment. The gold council predicted lower-income customers would buy within their budgets, while affluent customers might even buy more.
Sales were $17.7 billion in 2005 amid strong gold prices, a 4.4 percent increase from 2004. Calnon said he could not release the council's internal forecast for gold jewelry sales this year.
Nancy Cook, 45, estimates she visits Atencio's stores monthly, and she and her husband buy six pieces a year. During a special event this spring for some of Atencio's best customers, she had her eye on a gold-and-pearl piece but hadn't decided whether to buy it.
''I have noticed a difference in prices, but if I like the piece, I really don't worry about the price of gold,'' said Cook, a Denver landscape company owner.
Atencio, whose first store opened in Fort Collins, Colo., in 1976, said he has been raising prices on new pieces by roughly 5 percent, but he can't hike them by as much as his costs for fear of scaring off customers.
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The Chinese currency yuan could be used globally because of the proposed launch of a digital currency by China, said the CEO of American cryptocurrency financial services firm Circle.
Its own digital coin is being planned to be launched by China’s central bank the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) where in a two tier system would be put in place which would allow the central bank and the other commercial banks to be legitimate issuers of the digital coin.
This announcement was made by the PBOC last month and said that the launch would take place soon. The central bank has said that protecting its foreign exchange sovereignty is the rationale behind the move.
“I look at this really meeting several goals. But, I think the bigger opportunity here is this is a way for the Chinese yuan to be distributed globally,” Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in a television interview.
“This becomes a mechanism by which (the yuan) can be used in everyday transactions all around the world,” added Allaire, an internet entrepreneur who also founded video streaming firm Brightcove. “It’s ultimately a foundation for the internationalization” of the yuan.
In recent years, China has made a conscious effort to prompt the use of its currency yuan by more international entities outside of the country.
According to the IMF, about 58 per cent of all foreign exchange reserves in the world are made in US dollars and that makes it the “reserve currency” of the world currently. Further, about 40 per cent of the total debt in the world is dominated in US dollars also.
The new proposed digital coin by the PBOC will have close similarities with Facebook’s proposed digital coin the Libra, Mu Changchun, deputy director of the PBOC’s payments department, had said earlier. he claimed that the safety and security of the digital coin would be as good as paper notes issued by the central bank and the new proposed currency could be put to use on online digital platforms such as Tencent’s WeChat. It can even be used by people without an internet connection.
Relatively stable government-backed money would be backing the Libra which Facebook had unveiled in June this year. Facebook has said that its currency would not be as volatile and speculative as the likes of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,
China’s proposed digital currency “bypasses the Western banking system, SWIFT, things like this”, pointed out Allaire. He was talking about the Society of Worldwide InterBank Financial Telecommunications based in Belgium which makes possible sending and receiving information on cross-border payments for financial institutions.
He said that the digital currency is “quite strategic.” Authorities would be able to track monetary supply more easily, Allaire added, and said that which would give Beijing the mean s to tackle problems such as corruption and money laundering.
(Adapted from CNBC.com)


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Wall Street report: Friday close
A DOWNBEAT report on employment was discarded by investors intent on divining what is ahead for the world's biggest economy. Analysts said the official monthly jobs report for December showing the loss of 101,000 jobs was 'backward-looking' and that investors were focusing instead on fresher indicators stoking hopes of a pick-up.
Among positive developments which have helped fuel a New Year rally have been the proposal by President Bush to eliminate double taxation on dividends and hopes that the US might postpone military action against Iraq.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tumbled to the 8,600 level on the jobless report, rebounded as high as 8,818 before coming to rest up 8.77 points at 8,784.95. The Nasdaq closed ahead 9.29 points or 0.7% to 1,447.75. The Dow extended its two-week winning streak to 5.2%, while the Nasdaq has leapt 7.8% in New Year trading.
The jobs report surprised economists who have generally been predicting a pick-up later this year or early in 2004. Washington said the unemployment rate remained at 6%, but that the loss in employment in the latest month represented the first time since 1957-58 that the US economy had shed jobs two years in a row.
Economists had been predicting that the economy would create jobs to support their theory that the US is moving ahead with a decreasing likelihood that it will backslide into a double dip recession.
The tech sector continued to benefit from hopes that it will be the first piece of the economy to feel the benefits of a recovery. The tech-heavy Nasdaq continued to draw its strength from heavyweights including Intel, up 36 cents or 2.1% to $17.42, and Cisco Systems, higher by 27 cents or 1.8% to $15.22. Hewlett-Packard, a component of the Dow Industrials, tacked on another 37 cents or 1.8% to $20.85.
The tech strength continued despite a profit warning from Lexmark, second to H-P in manufacturing printers. Lexmark shares fell $4 or 6% to $62.26.
And a profit warning from pharmaceutical maker Schering-Plough, down a fraction at $22.96, had limited impact on its sector. Pfizer came off 34 cents or 1% to $30.80. Schering-Plough said its profits had been undermined by fewer prescription sales for allergy drug Claritin, which is now available over the counter at chemists.
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Kymeta Fulfills Global Mobile Connectivity Promises
Partnership with Jabil Speeds Time to Market, Reduces Costs and Meets Exacting Quality Demands
KYMETA & JABIL
Anyone who’s ever tried—and failed—to use a connected mobile device at sea, along a rural road or on a train outside a major city realizes ubiquitous connectivity is more hype than reality. Until now. Kymeta, an innovative technology start-up in Redmond, Washington, has pioneered a breakthrough technology that takes advantage of satellite network capacity to deliver always-on, always-connected communications.
The company’s small, efficient, flat-panel antennas use metamaterials-based beamforming technology to connect low- and medium-earth satellites with anything that moves. A major industry disruptor and technology enabler, Kymeta provides planes, trains, automobiles and more with seamless, high-speed connectivity.
The idea behind the antennas was born out of metamaterials research by Nathan Kundtz, founder, president and CEO of Kymeta, while earning a Ph.D. in Physics at Duke University. A technology made famous as the building blocks for a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak, metamaterials also have the potential to revolutionize wireless communications. “Kymeta fixes two of the biggest problems with wireless connectivity: coverage and capacity,” he explains. “For the first time, mobile connected devices can access satellites for universal coverage while gaining 5,000 times more bandwidth than terrestrial mobile.”
Using its mTenna® technology, Kymeta’s satellite antennas are lightweight, low-profile, energy efficient and affordable. With no mechanical or moving parts, installation and maintenance are simplified while enabling high-speed broadband applications for anything that moves as well as the Internet of Things.
“Our ability to offer connectivity to more platforms will open the door to opportunities that haven’t existed until now,” Kundtz adds. “We’re positioned to significantly disrupt certain industries while enabling new types of innovation and investment across the entire ecosystem to benefit everyday lives.”
To spur innovation, Kymeta perfected its technology “secret sauce,” which uses liquid crystal as a core element of the antenna’s architecture and functionality. By using components that come off a liquid crystal display production line, Kymeta can take advantage of vast production capacity. The challenge was finding the right partner to help scale manufacturing.
Jabil Blends Best Experience & Business Acumen
When Bill Shadle joined Kymeta as vice president of operations in November 2015, he was tasked with accelerating full-scale production, which included the selection of an Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider. “Time to market was critical, yet we lacked systems, infrastructure and planning capabilities,” he recalls. “We needed a manufacturing partner that not only understood our lifecycle as a company, but had a deep understanding of the technology and global footprint to scale rapidly.”
In assessing potential partners, Shadle was quick to add Jabil to the short list based on previous successes with the world-class manufacturer. “Jabil clearly had the global footprint, which was a major factor,” he says. “RF capability was table stakes, so what impressed us most was Jabil’s flexibility and adaptability to grow with us in extending that expertise in a satellite communications product.”
Kymeta also needed proven glass handling expertise as well as experience with adhesives and strict tolerances. “Jabil brought together transferrable skills from diverse industries to support a disruptive product, which was really interesting to us,” notes Shadle. For instance, Jabil had tremendous expertise in the solar industry, which showed strength handling glass in a manufacturing environment. Experience in the kitchen appliance industry also illustrated glass-handling prowess while demonstrating how automation could be applied to Kymeta’s product.
Additionally, Kymeta believed Jabil’s full complement of resources would serve them well, including a manufacturing plant in Eastern Europe which supported solar panel production; a California-based engineering group; test engineers on the East Coast; and commodity management support at company headquarters in Florida. “Jabil’s differentiators are time to market, business acumen and a focus on quality,” says Shadle. “Those three things alone meant Jabil needed to be part of the bidding process. They competed against the best and won.”
“Jabil’s differentiators are time to market, business acumen and a focus on quality. Those three things alone meant Jabil needed to be part of the bidding process. They competed against the best and won.”
- Bill Shadle, VP of Operations, Kymeta
From RFQ to Production in Six Months
To expedite time to market, Jabil’s West Coast engineering team spent time at Kymeta’s headquarters working with early prototypes in the lab. What started as a knowledge transfer process soon turned into a collaboration to identify design industry best practices, standards and tools to improve Jabil’s performance and cost efficiency. “Jabil helped create a manufacturing mindset and culture in our design engineering teams, so they were always thinking of questions that needed to be answered and key design elements that had to be addressed,” says Shadle. “This clearly had a positive impact on setting objectives and defining processing, cycle times and capabilities to ensure success.”
The constant interaction also streamlined decisions around product capabilities, supply chain, manufacturing processes and automation. “Jabil supported us in a number of ways,” recalls Kundtz. “Flexibility on the front end helped us learn what we otherwise didn’t know about production. Most important, Jabil allowed us to focus on the core elements of our business in antenna design.”
Kymeta points to Jabil’s materials expertise as a pivotal factor in moving forward its alpha product prototype. “Jabil’s engineers worked with us to finalize materials and remove uncertainties,” adds Shadle. “Together, we turned the prototype into something real and ready for production in just six months, which is remarkable. We were thrilled to build our first product after just launching the project months earlier.”
Kymeta also credits close supply chain alignment for expediting processes while lowering costs. Jabil’s supply chain experts reviewed initial prototypes and made sourcing recommendations that resulted in major cost savings. “Whenever you introduce a new technology, it can be quite expensive to produce early prototypes,” Shadle notes. “With Jabil’s supply chain insight and sourcing recommendations, we reduced costs by 43% while improving quality. The ability to do that quickly was huge for Kymeta.”
Delivering Visibility and Value
From the start, Jabil’s InControl Intelligent Digital Supply Chain played a major part in helping Kymeta reduce risk, which is crucial, especially for a new company. An accurate risk assessment of Kymeta’s supply chain was presented in a quantifiable, measurable way. “Jabil InControl helps us understand and manage risk both strategically and tactically,” says Shadle. “The risk framework lets us quantify very specific elements of our supply chain, and pinpoints where we should be focusing our attention and priorities, which is huge.”
Moving away from single-sourcing components is one way Kymeta continues to lower its risk score, which now has a benchmark typical of a high-tech company in a multinational environment.
Another risk factor addressed by InControl is the ability to immediately assess and minimize the impact of geo-political events and natural disasters. Getting a real-time notification of any event that could disrupt Kymeta’s supply chain is crucial, especially since the company leverages the LCD industry, which is heavily concentrated in earthquake-prone areas of Asia.
With InControl, Kymeta has structured its supply chain so every piece can scale. “Jabil helped us go really deep into our supply chain, which gave us confidence that Kymeta can deliver what our customers expect without hiccups in the supply chain,” says Kundtz. “We don’t have to worry about what it will take to reach large-scale production, allowing us to stay focused on our core mission.”
Looking ahead, Kymeta is eager to take advantage of InControl to synchronize the multiple tiers of its supply chain, while having virtual access to information on any connected device. “Anywhere, anytime visibility into what’s going on in the supply chain across first, second and third tiers is powerful,” says Shadle. “Providing more suppliers with some of that access will result in more collaborative planning, improved inventory availability and greater operational efficiency.”
Automation is another strategy enabling Kymeta to reach volume production, especially as it relates to glass handling. Jabil’s special expertise in this area led to a recommendation to invest in automation, which Kymeta believes will contribute significantly to improved efficiency and quality. Making antennas for the first time using components that come off an LCD production line is not trivial, so Kymeta expected low production yields initially. However, the team experienced high yields early on, which has validated early manufacturing process decisions and boosted confidence for a successful commercial launch in Q2 2017.
Kymeta also gives credit to Jabil’s workcell business model, which encompasses a dedicated team to oversee all aspects of Kymeta’s manufacturing and supply chain operations. “Jabil’s model strikes the right balance between customer focus and the ability to leverage synergies across the globe,” adds Shadle. “Simply stated, it’s a powerful combination.”
Another winning combo is a strong cultural alignment and transparency between the two organizations. “In contrast to other contract manufacturers, Jabil has matched the energy and pace of our organization,” says Kundtz. “They’re always ready and flexible when it comes to dealing with the inevitable changes that come with a new company and technology. Jabil is essential to our market entry.”
In March 2017, Kymeta announced commercial availability to meet early customer requirements while continuing to advance its antenna technology. Regardless of whether a car is in New York City or the Sahara Desert, always-on, always-connected communications will not only replace spotty Wi-Fi available today, but it also lets software updates and fixes be delivered over the air. This becomes even more important as the industry moves toward autonomous vehicles.
Kymeta also is making major inroads in its other target industries through a series of partnerships with technology companies and manufacturers of civilian armored vehicles, yachts, rail, coaches, aircraft and more. “Automotive and aerospace OEMs are very demanding when it comes to quality,” concludes Shadle. “Jabil has the pedigree, experience, DNA of quality management and partner network to support us. Jabil’s right in the middle of our operation today and is a key component of our future.”


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RainCastle launches New Website for VMRay
RainCastle is pleased to announce the launch of the new VMRay website as well as a cohesive set of marcom materials including booth graphics, e-newsletter, PowerPoint, etc., all based on the concept that VMRay is “X-Ray for Malware.”
VMRay’s automated malware analysis and detection solutions help enterprises around the world minimize business risk, protect their valuable data and safeguard their brands. They accomplish this by quickly analyzing malware behavior and identifying malicious code and other indicators of compromise, while remaining invisible to malware. They accomplish this by quickly analyzing and identifying threats and extracting indicators of compromise (IOCs), while remaining invisible to malware.
“Cybersecurity is a highly competitive marketplace and we felt that the X-ray metaphor presented the dual advantage of brand recognition for the VMRay name and conceptually elegant approach to to the essence of what VMRay represents,” said Paul Regensburg, President and Creative Director of RainCastle. “Each time one visits the website, a new X-ray image is served, keeping the site fresh and exciting,” added Regensburg.
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Shares of Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST) have been given a consensus rating of “Buy” by the eighteen research firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, six have assigned a hold recommendation and eleven have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year price target among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $68.94.
Several research firms have issued reports on MNST. Royal Bank of Canada reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $67.00 price target on shares of Monster Beverage in a research note on Wednesday, April 22nd. Zacks Investment Research raised Monster Beverage from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $64.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Monday, April 13th. Citigroup downgraded Monster Beverage from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $77.00 to $73.00 in a research note on Monday, May 11th. SunTrust Banks raised their price objective on Monster Beverage from $70.00 to $75.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, February 28th. Finally, Bank of America raised their price objective on Monster Beverage from $70.00 to $80.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, June 4th.
In other news, Director Mark J. Hall sold 64,643 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $72.82, for a total transaction of $4,707,303.26. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, EVP Thomas J. Kelly sold 15,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $68.29, for a total transaction of $1,024,350.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 13,117 shares in the company, valued at approximately $895,759.93. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 196,108 shares of company stock valued at $13,486,804 in the last quarter. 10.60% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Monster Beverage stock traded down $1.16 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $67.90. 2,044,998 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,310,684. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $68.91 and its 200-day simple moving average is $64.53. Monster Beverage has a fifty-two week low of $50.06 and a fifty-two week high of $73.43. The firm has a market capitalization of $35.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 32.80, a PEG ratio of 4.17 and a beta of 1.04.
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.04. Monster Beverage had a return on equity of 27.77% and a net margin of 26.07%. The firm had revenue of $1.06 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $995.97 million. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.50 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 12.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that Monster Beverage will post 2.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Monster Beverage Company Profile
Monster Beverage Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, markets, sells, and distributes energy drink beverages and concentrates in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Monster Energy Drinks, Strategic Brands, and Other. The company offers ready-to-drink packaged energy drinks, carbonated energy drinks, non-carbonated dairy based coffee and energy drinks, non-carbonated energy shakes, and non-carbonated energy drinks primarily to bottlers and full service beverage distributors, as well as sells directly to retail grocery and specialty chains, wholesalers, club stores, drug stores, mass merchandisers, convenience chains, food service customers, and the military; and concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling and canning operations.
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Cuphead video game to become Netflix flick
The game found a niche market when it was released in 2017
Netflix continues to dive deeper into original content, looking for ways to set itself apart from the current competition – and the competition that’s coming. Its latest endeavor centers on a peculiar video game that was released in 2017 and which found a relatively unique audience. Cuphead was developed and published as a video game by Studio MDHR and is now going to be given its own airtime on Netflix.
The Cuphead Show! is an animated series that features characters from the game. Cuphead and Mugman struck a deal with a devil in the video game and everything goes downhill from there. The game was crafted after cartoons created by Max Fleischer in the 1930s and are all hand-drawn – unlike today’s CGI graphics.
The show will be executive produced by Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, who just happen to be the two names behind the video game. C. J. Kettler and Dave Wasson are also onboard as executive producers, and Netflix Animation and King Features will produce the series.
Cuphead sold over four million copies when it was released in 2017 and also picked up several awards at the 2017 Game Awards, including Best Independent Game. Whether or not the show will follow suit remains to be seen.
King Features has decided to target character franchises across multiple platforms, and Netflix is a good place for it to find a home. The company already owns the rights to Popeye and Garfield, and more content featuring the two could soon make its way to Netflix, as well.


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Topica Inc., a San Francisco-based Web portal for e-mail newsletters and discussion lists, recently reached an agreement to begin hosting the e-mail lists for the Internet Soccer Fans Association and Cyber Cyclery, two sites that target enthusiasts of both sports.
The ISFA and Cyber Cyclery lists provide Topica with access to a worldwide community of hardcore soccer and bicycling fans who are active participants in their groups. Topica said ISFA members exchange as many as 30 million e-mails per month, while the Cyber Cyclery portal hosts more than 230 e-mail lists.
“ISFA and Cyber Cyclery are a great addition to our growing sports category,” said Ariel Poler, Topica’s CEO. “Here you have clear topics that are interesting and are growing. [The members] are a highly targeted group of individuals and there’s lots of things you can infer from them.”
Poler said the new additions bring Topica’s total number of subscriptions to 10 million and its monthly e-mail deliveries to 250 million. Topica’s main competitor, eGroups, totals 14 million members and monthly e-mail deliveries of two billion.
As part of the deal, ISFA and Cyber Cyclery can sign onto Topica’s Advertising and List Promotion Network, a service that allows list owners generate revenue by letting advertisers place messages on lists they want to target.


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Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) unveiled its latest quarterly earnings results late today, bringing in an adjusted loss that failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations, yet a higher guidance for its current fiscal year helped to lift ZNGA stock more than 9% after hours.
The social video games developer — based out of San Francisco — said that for its first quarter of its fiscal 2019, it amassed a loss of $128.8 million, or 14 cents per share. On an adjusted basis when considering stock-based compensation and other items, the business’ loss narrowed to 7 cents per share, below its adjusted profit of 3 cents per share from its first quarter of 2018.
Analysts called for Zynga to rake in adjusted earnings of 5 cents per share for the period, according to data compiled by FactSet. The company added that its sales for the period reached $265.4 million, a 27.5% gain from its $208.2 million in revenue from the year-ago period.
The Wall Street consensus estimate predicted the company would rake in $328 million in sales, per FactSet. Zynga added that its bookings, a metric depicting deals in place for future business, soared to $359 million, more than doubling from the $162 million it had in the year-ago quarter.
The organization now sees its annual revenue as surging to $1.2 billion, marking a $50 million increase to its previous forecast. The company also added $100 million to its bookings guidance, which is now at $1.45 billion.
ZNGA stock was sliding about 2.7% during regular trading hours as the company geared up to reports its latest quarterly figures. A strong outlook for the current year played a role in Zynga shares surging about 9.4% after the bell Wednesday.


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Oculus yet again declined to share sales figures for its Oculus Rift and Go headsets this month.
Speaking to UploadVR ahead of today’s Oculus Connect 5 developer conference, the company’s Nate Mitchell avoided providing specific numbers for both devices, instead insisting that both were “performing really well.”
“Go is beating our expectations on I think every front,” Mitchell said. “It’s great. Rift continues to perform really well, especially at the $399 price point.”
It’s difficult to tell what ‘really well’ means in the VR market given that Oculus hasn’t provided any sales information for Rift since its launch back in 2016. The company’s silence on the matter has only fuelled speculation (and numerous estimated analyst projections) that PC VR headsets sales have been slow. Meanwhile, we do know that Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset sold three million units as of August 2018.
Rift’s main rival, HTC’s Vive, hasn’t shared any sales data either. That said, monthly Steam Hardware Survey reports do at least suggest Rift is the most popular VR headset on the platform, narrowly edging out Vive over the past few months.
The standalone Go, meanwhile, was only introduced in May 2018 but designed as a low-cost ($199), accessible entry point into the VR market that anyone could pick up. Again, though, without knowing what Oculus’ internal expectations for the device are, it’s difficult to gauge how well it’s really performing.
“We do think that one of the continued big growth drivers is content, so you’ll continue to see that investment as we build a world-class content library that appeals to a wide audience of gamers,” Mitchell said, adding that Oculus’ focus now was to expand the Go ecosystem in order to attract more people to the device.


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Yesterday the good folks at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) held an important and timely event on the future of antitrust policy. The spotlight was on a new study by ITIF Senior Fellow Joe Kennedy titled “Why the Consumer Welfare Standard Should Remain the Bedrock of Antitrust Policy.”
Safeguarding consumer welfare has been the basis for evaluating how the federal government should enforce antitrust law for decades, but in recent years, some scholars have argued for a shift that would likely expand dramatically the industries, companies, and merger deals that would be subject to enforcement actions. Kennedy summarizes his argument like this:
The application of antitrust policy, through which the government seeks to shape the general rules of competition, has always been contentious. But for roughly 40 years there has been a consensus that its ultimate goal should be the welfare of consumers, broadly defined to mean maximizing overall economic growth. Yet a small, but growing group of activists and scholars now argues we should abandon the consumer welfare standard and add in a host of new factors for antitrust policy to address, while also attacking “bigness” per se.
These activists and scholars believe that focusing on consumers overlooks other values, including vibrant small businesses, innovation, privacy, worker interests, and healthy democratic processes. For them, large companies by their very nature pose a unique danger to the economy and help form a kind of society they reject. The consumer welfare standard stands in the way of using antitrust policy to limit the size of large firms.
This argument for a changed standard is either something exciting and new—hence the popular nickname “hipster antitrust”—or a tired re-tread of economic ideas that went out of style around the time of the polyester leisure suit. Most members of Thursday’s panel lean toward the latter characterization, though some were open to using other regulatory remedies for the ostensible economic goals sought by the hipster legalists.
Fans of expanding the scope of antitrust look at things a little like the guy who has only a hammer as a tool. In his case, everything looks like a nail. They, however, are more like a person who only has nails to work with—in that case, every tool ends up looking like a hammer. And they have a lot of targets they’re eager to hammer away at. Their underlying concern is more often than not really a generalized unease with inequality of wealth and income, and perceptions of systemic unfairness in modern commercial society. Because this is such a broad problem to try to solve, “economic justice” activists are happy to turn anything they can get their hands on toward the problem.
Higher marginal income tax rates, forgiveness of student loans, forcing companies to add more women to corporate boards, and breaking up big tech companies via antitrust enforcement are all, for the most part, different tentacles of the same anti-capitalist octopus. A system of property rights and free exchange can’t be trusted to yield a just economic outcome, the argument goes, so we need ever more invasive and aggressive governmental re-balancing of the economy to set things right.
That may be consistent with certain philosophic theories of justice, but it has nothing to do with every steel or coal company in the country making an illegal agreement to fix a monopoly price—in other words, the kind of problem antitrust law was actually created to solve. If today’s hipsters want a broad scheme of wealth distribution and economic levelling, they should argue for that rather than trying to reinvent antitrust law under the guise of strengthening it.


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Karl Lagerfeld may have hoped for blazing sunshine and Aegean blue skies in Paris. After all, he staged Chanel’s 2018 cruise show, inspired by the glories of ancient Greece, under the rounded glass ceiling of the Grand Palais. His models wore gold: gilded laurels swirled into sunglasses, Delphos-pleated dresses corded with sequins, even beach cover-ups licked with golden vines. King Midas has nothing on Kaiser Karl.
But alas, it was Paris in May. The sky was a sullen shade of Elgin-marble gray on Wednesday.
The weather was, perhaps, the only factor Chanel couldn’t control. Rather than going to Greece, the fashion house brought Greece to Paris. What could be a larger display of its might? Perhaps presenting the collection in Greece itself; Mr. Lagerfeld had originally wanted to show at a historic venue, but was vetoed by the country’s officials, company representatives said. Hence the decision to show in Paris. (Earlier this year, the Central Archaeological Council in Athens also publicly rebuffed Gucci in its bid to stage its cruise show on the Acropolis. Instead it will be held in Florence.)
No matter. Instead of showing amid the original ruins, Chanel spent a king’s ransom erecting its own. The set was based on the Parthenon as well as the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounion. It took 50 craftspeople three weeks of construction, and nine days of assembly, to complete.
Ideologically, Mr. Lagerfeld asserted that his re-creation was conceptual: “Reality is of no interest to me,” he said. “I use what I like. My Greece is an idea.”
“It’s his dream of the ideal,” said Lady Amanda Harlech, Chanel’s creative consultant. “But he wanted it to look modern, modern, modern.” The cash-strapped status of modern Greece makes, perhaps, for an odd allusion when a cruise collection is involved. Though the show was held in Paris, Chanel’s homeland, it wasn’t Chanel on the cheap; there was, of course, no reason for it to be. Although Chanel is privately owned and its financial figures are not released, last year Forbes estimated the brand’s value to be around $7.2 billion, against annual sales of $5.2 billion.
Falling between the traditional fall/winter and spring/summer seasons, the cruise season — and its late-summer counterpart, pre-fall — accounts for between 60 and 80 percent of designer clothing sales. They are ostensibly interim collections, but Lagerfeld can be credited with making the cruise season visible and commercially important. Later this month, Louis Vuitton will present its collection in Kyoto, Christian Dior in Los Angeles, Gucci in Florence and Prada, for the first time, in Milan.
Greece in the Grand Palais seems tame next to those locations. But Mr. Lagerfeld’s initial inspiration came from even closer to home: a first century B.C. statue of Venus in Gabrielle Chanel’s Rue Cambon apartment, above Chanel’s flagship boutique. That led him to think about ancient times, and the “modernity of antiquity,” words he chose as the title of the collection. The theme was evident in various forms. Neo-Classical dance and the attire of Isadora Duncan were also cited as influences.
There was a Cecil B. DeMille-like quality to the painstakingly recreated ruins and the painted sunset backdrop, around which the models meandered in draped jersey dresses that scrambled perceptions of time. They suggested the Greek goddesses found on a 1930s Hollywood studio lot, the plissé gowns of Madame Grès, or the Dionysian revels of Studio 54.
Just as Michel Gaubert’s soundtrack combined the cerebral compositions of Iannis Xenakis alongside the campy tracks of the Greek prog-rock band Aphrodite’s Child, Mr. Lagerfeld’s clothes were Greece, remixed, a sprint of Olympian proportions through Ionic iconography. There were amphora-shaped dresses of compressed pleats, draped chiffon pieces corseted with “cracked” marble and sandals with columns as heels. So far, not so Coco.
And yet there was something that gave the entire offering a distinctly Chanel handwriting. The collection opened with a sequence of hairy, fraying tweeds in Chanel colors like tobacco, caramel and beige. There were also the shades of ancient Greece, but these clothes didn’t feel mired in costume drama. Ignore the columns and ditch the togas, and this show was fluid, light and right for right now. As Mr. Lagerfeld himself put it: “To create the future, you have to pay attention to the past.”


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Tag Archives: Earthworm Jim
Fri, Jul 05, 2013 | 14:03 BST
Earthworm Jim could be getting a fourth outing, as suggested by a teasing post on the series’ Facebook page.
Wed, Jul 18, 2012 | 05:19 BST
Although he can’t put a timeframe on it, former Shiny boss Dave Perry has said he and the team will make a new Earthworm Jim game one day.
Thu, Jul 12, 2012 | 22:14 BST
David Perry has said he regrets selling Shiny Entertainment to Atari in 2002.
Tue, May 15, 2012 | 15:15 BST
Industry veteran David Perry will be handed the Development Legend award during the Develop Industry Excellence Awards on July 11. He is to receive the award for the contributions he’s made to the games industry over the last three decades. The Gaikai boss has helped create over 100 titles across 29 platforms, and formed Shiny Entertainment which brought the world Earthworm Jim. “I’m incredibly flattered by this award,” said Perry in response to Develop. “I’m from Great Britain and have incredible respect for the people that have been recognized in previous years. My mother is going to be blown away; she thought she was buying me that first Sinclair ZX81 to do homework on.” [image]
Mon, Nov 29, 2010 | 15:51 GMT
Happy Monday, everyone.
Wed, Mar 17, 2010 | 20:44 GMT
Gameloft has revealed to Nintendo Power that it’s iPhone remake of Earthworm Jim is will be released on DSiWare.
Wed, Aug 19, 2009 | 00:19 BST
Yesterday’s announcement that Gameloft had picked up the rights to give your Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii a case of the worms wasn’t exactly clear on what form said creepy-but-not-crawly would take. Would it be a new game, or would it be a port of a classic earthworm escapade? G4 asked Gameloft, and promptly received an answer.
“A Gameloft representative has confirmed to me it’s a remake of the 1994 original game released on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, not a new game,” reads G4′s post.
So that’s that.
Tue, Aug 18, 2009 | 00:23 BST
Gameloft and Interplay are in cahoots to put Earthworm Jim back on the map, it would seem. The two companies have partnered to develop and publish a new title in the series that will eventually grace the likes of PSN and WiiWare.
First, though, Jim’s making a month-long pit stop on Xbox Live Arcade, as a timed exclusive. The early bird gets the Earthworm Jim? Something like that, we guess.
The game’s out sometime during the last quarter of 2009. Pertinent press is after the break.
Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | 23:09 BST
Sega has announced that for the 20th anniversary of the Sega Genesis, fans can vote for the next Genesis title to land on Xbox Live.
Between August 14 and 21, fans can go here and vote for the following games:
- Earthworm Jim
- Golden Axe II
- Revenge of Shinobi
- Shining Force
- Streets of Rage
- Toejam & Earl
- Wonder Boy
Currently, Jim is in the lead with 46 percent of the vote, followed by Toejam & Earl.
Sun, Mar 22, 2009 | 19:41 GMT
Good Old Games has a sale going on, giving 25 percent off loads of action titles.
To get in on the promotion, according to D’toid, add the following games to your cart and apply promo code “ACTION” at checkout:
- Die by the Sword + Expansion
- Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
- Earthworm Jim 3D
- MDK 2
- Shattered Steel
Promo ends on Monday, March 23 at 11.59pm EST.
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 | 07:17 BST
According to this Destructoid story, Interplay’s planning to release Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman and Clayfighter on Virtual Console this year.
We have to admit, we’re not amazingly excited, but that’s just us.
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 | 13:32 BST
Interplay has announced earnings of $6 million for fiscal 2007 and plans to gain funding for a Fallout MMO.
Outlining a roadmap for the company’s future, a statement said that “management is working to secure funding for the development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) based on the popular Fallout franchise. Interplay sold Fallout in 2007 while obtaining a license back, under certain conditions, to create and develop a Fallout MMOG.”
In addition, and almost unbelievably, the company has also announced intentions to create sequels to Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK.
The return of Interplay as a resurgent concern in games publishing was signalled by the semi-launch of Interplay.com at the beginning of March.
Press release after the link.


text: When Nintendo (NTDOY) launches the Wii U on November 18th in North America, please try not to fling your GamePad controller across the room or break it. Nintendo of America president and CEO Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed to GameInformer that the company will not be selling standalone Wii U GamePads until 2013. There are two reasons for this: first, there are no launch window titles that will support multiple Wii U GamePads, only ones built for use with one Wii U GamePad, up to three Wii Remotes and the Wii U pro controller (Example: New Super Mario Bros. Wii U). Second, it’s not a cheap accessory by any means. Although Nintendo of America didn’t explicitly say how much a standalone Wii U GamePad will cost, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed on Thursday during a Nintendo Direct webcast that it will sell the Wii U GamePad for 13,440 yen (about $172) in Japan, which is over half the cost of the Wii U Basic Set that will sell for $299.99. It’s believed that the large touchscreen, NFC, universal TV remote and camera are driving the Wii U GamePad cost up.


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S.J. harvest forecast bright for grapes
Apples down, grain up, according to statewide projection
California is set to harvest a record winegrape crop this year and, with prices holding steady or declining slightly, that should bring a good return to area vineyard owners, officials said Monday.
Of other major San Joaquin County crops mentioned in statewide forecasts released Monday, apple acreage and production should decline by 11 percent; hay production is essentially flat; the grain-corn harvest is expected to increase by 18 percent; sugar beets to fall by 8 percent and dry beans to fall by 14 percent.
"We've got a good crop, a good-quality crop," said Mark Chandler, executive director of the Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape Commission. He added, "There's a lot of demand for the type of wines we make in our area."
While there is some downward pressure on prices due to predictions of a record harvest, indications from wineries are that they will pay prices roughly equal to or within 10 percent of last year's levels, Chandler said.
That is because Lodi-area grapes are used in premium-priced wines, where strong demand is growing. Chandler said prices are weakest for grapes from the southern San Joaquin Valley, which are largely used in lower-priced jug wines.
One reason is an expanding export market for California wines, with demand growing particularly in Canada, Great Britain, the Far East and Europe.
"We should have enough wine to start to ship into the export market, which has been somewhat constrained (by limited supplies," Chandler said.
According to forecasts released Monday by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, this year's winegrape harvest should hit 3.2 million tons, a bit more than the record 1997 crop.
Chandler noted that in the ensuing years, new and larger winery facilities have come on line, providing the capacity that was sorely lacking three years ago.
"It should be smoother than the 1997 harvest," he said.
Grapes are San Joaquin County's leading cash crop, worth an estimated $291.2 million in 1999. The county is the state's fourth leading producer.
It is the state's leading producer of apples. The 1999 crop was worth $49.3 million to San Joaquin farmers, making it the county's eighth leading farm commodity.
Apple acreage should decline by 11 percent statewide, somewhat less in San Joaquin County, because optimistic predictions led to orchards being planted in less-than-ideal apple-growing areas in the 1970s and '80s, said Michael Collins, director of marketing for Sierra Hills Marketing of Stockton.
However, area apple production has proven relatively successful because of better-quality fruit.
"We find that apples are more fitted for this area, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties because of the microclimate we get here," Collins said, referring to the warm days and cool nights because of proximity to the Delta.
Apple prices are fair to good, Collins said. "There seems to be some hope and optimism for the upcoming varieties, which are Granny Smith and fujis."
Richard Matteis, executive vice president of the California Grain and Feed Association, applauded predictions of an 18 percent larger grain corn crop.
"I think it's good that we have an increase in the local supply," he said.
However, local farmers (San Joaquin is the leading corn- producing county in the state play a small role in the corn-grain market, dwarfed by Midwest growers.
Matteis noted that 80 percent of feed going to California's giant dairy and poultry industries has to come from out of state.
* To reach reporter Reed Fujii, phone546-8253 or email@example.com


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Only recently, a lot of people went crazy after a large number of motoring publications started spreading tittle-tattle and an alleged leaked photograph of the Giulia Sportwagon. The image was debunked immediately by yours truly, whereas Alfa Romeo never said anything about a longroof variant of the Giulia. The bottom line is, just don’t believe the hype.
With an eight-speed automatic transmission it accelerates to 100km/h in a claimed 6.6 seconds while returning a combined fuel consumption figure of 6.0 L/100km.
The Fiat-owned brand is prepared for a tussle in the track-ready coupe segment. The range-topping Sprint Quadrifoglio will get a twin-turbocharged, 2.9-liter V6 rated at 505 horsepower. That will be enough grunt to send the coupe from zero to 60 mph in under four seconds.
Mr Zanlunghi also predicted the bulk of the variant adoption would be for the mid-grade version, admitting “it will be pretty split, but we think probably the largest volume will be the Super for us, then probably Veloce, then the regular Giulia”.


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If history is a guide, North Texas is a strong contender to land Texas Instruments' next major manufacturing facility.
The Dallas-based semiconductor company recently revealed plans for a potential new facility in Richardson that it says could amount to $3.2 billion of investment and create as many as 625 jobs. It described the proposal in an application for a 10-year tax incentive agreement worth tens of millions of dollars with Plano ISD, the school district in which the new facility would be based.
The site would make wafers that later get sliced and diced into chips used in personal electronics, cars and industrial equipment. But Texas Instruments has provided few specifics.
The company wrote in the application that it owned the land in Richardson and already has operations there, but did not list an address. The company checked a box saying it is considering sites outside of Texas, but did not name the cities, states or countries of those possible sites.
If Texas Instruments decides on Richardson for the facility, it said in the application that construction would begin in the late summer or early fall of 2019. Commercial operations would start in early 2022.
"Our strategy has long been to ensure we have capacity ahead of demand to support our customers' growth, and we're in the research phase of exploring options," company spokeswoman Nicole Bernard said in an email.
Bernard said the application for tax incentives is "one step in a strategic decision process, allowing us to keep our options open without yet committing to a particular site location."
She declined to provide more details, citing competitive reasons.
Texas Instruments said in the application that it also planned to seek property tax breaks from the city of Richardson and Collin County, which could be worth up to $8.9 million more.
Bill Sproull, president and CEO of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce, said the business group is "obviously excited about the opportunity" to reel in that level of investment.
"We worked on the original deal that brought the [Texas Instruments] investment to Richardson, and we think we're going to be competitive," he said.
Plano ISD spokeswoman Leslie Range-Stanton said the school board will vote on whether to approve the agreement in the next three to six months. She said it has only approved one other similar tax incentive agreement through a program known as Chapter 313 after its section of the state tax code. That was with Texas Instruments in 2004.
Even aside from possible tax incentives, Dallas-Fort Worth has an edge, said Anand Srinivasan, a semiconductor analyst for Bloomberg.
Texas Instruments has numerous factories at 15 manufacturing sites across the globe, including Germany, China and Mexico. But the company, which began in 1930 as Geophysical Service, has long emphasized domestic production, and it has long roots in Dallas.
"They have always had very inexpensive land," Srinivasan said. "They have always manufactured here. These are legacy factories. Once you start using them, the depreciation costs taken into account, there’s no reason for you to move unless the cost of manufacturing is so low in other countries.”
Only 13 percent of the company’s revenue is imported into the United States, its chief financial officer Rafael Lizardi said in late July in the company’s earnings call. For the three-month period covering April to June, TI’s revenue rose 9 percent due to what it described as strong demand in the industrial and automotive markets.
TI’s most recent manufacturing expansions have also been in North Texas with a Dallas facility that began production in 2002 and a Richardson facility in 2010.
The factories have advanced equipment that makes 300-millimeter wafers. The wafers, larger than those made by other TI factories, can each make more chips — which then can lead to higher revenue.
They use pricey equipment that Texas Instruments bought for a discount several years ago after Qimonda, a semiconductor company that made memory for computers, filed for bankruptcy.
Texas Instruments CEO Richard Templeton said ramping up production of 300-millimeter wafers is a key part of its business strategy. At a KeyBanc Capital Markets technology conference in mid-August, he said building a chip on a 300-millimeter wafer, instead of a 200-millimeter wafer, costs about 40 percent less.
“So, why do we love more 300-millimeter capacity as a percent of our total? Half our cost of goods are going to have a 40 percent cost advantage over a competitor,” he said. “Okay? That's a wonderful thing.”
Lizardi also told investors in July’s earnings call to expect the company to invest significant capital into expanding production of the larger wafers.
The potential facility in Richardson could be a place to grow that kind of manufacturing, Srinivasan said. It could also use the other half of the discounted equipment TI acquired, which has been mothballed.
By opening another 300-millimeter facility near its others, the company could boost efficiency by sharing equipment, personnel and logistics, he said.
Staff writer Jill Cowan contributed to this report.


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24 successful people who wake up really (really) early
research suggests there might be some truth to the old adage.
Waking up with (or before) the sun allows executives like AOL's Tim Armstrong and Pepsi's Indra Nooyi to get a head start on the day, knocking out tasks before the rest of the world has rolled out of bed.
Those "extra" hours also give them a chance to do some creative thinking, fit in a workout, and spend time with family.
Ahead, 24 early risers who may convince you never to hit snooze again.
Max Nisen and Aaron Taube contributed to earlier versions of this article.
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Virgin America CEO David Cush
Square CEO Jack Dorsey
Hint Water founder and CEO Kara Goldin
Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Former PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund
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China-U.S. Trade Talks Taking Place ‘At All Levels,’ Says Trump Adviser BLOOMBERG
The U.S. and China have resumed contact “at all levels” over trade ahead of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said. There’s no certainty that China will cede to U.S. demands in trade negotiations, but “it’s better to talk than to not talk,” Kudlow said in an interview on CNBC earlier this week.
What’s Hot (and What’s Not) This Black Friday THE NEW YORK TIMES
By now, you have probably realized that the vast majority of Black Friday deals are duds. Many so-called bargains are undesirable products that have been marked down to help stores clear out inventory, or have discounts that aren’t any better than sales that happened earlier in the year. Yet there is a silver lining: This is the best time to buy a few items, like video game consoles, televisions and smart home accessories, which plummet to their lowest prices. If you know ahead of time what to focus on, you might score a few good deals. READ MORE
Why You Should Travel on the Day of Thanksgiving or Christmas
If you’re getting stressed about the season, you may want to consider a whole new travel plan: leaving on the actual holiday, instead of on the days before. Not only can you save money, but some surprising perks might help you realize why you should travel on the holidays more often. It really could be the best thing for your sanity and your wallet – and might make you feel like you’re traveling like a millionaire, without the millionaire budget. READ MORE
Vegan or Vegetarian? You Have More Travel and Dining Options Than Ever THE NEW YORK TIMES
November is World Vegan Month, and with an increasing number of places catering to all types of vegan travelers, there’s a lot to celebrate. According to a recent report, the percentage of vegans in the U.S. has risen to 6% from 1% in the past three years and Pinterest says it has seen a near-200% spike in searches for vegan food travel guides since last year. READ MORE
Travel Fans Are Engaged on Instagram, But Can Brands Keep Up? PHOCUSWIRE
Travel attracts one of the most engaged audiences on Instagram, according to an executive from the Facebook-owned image-sharing service. Insight from Instagram, revealed during a Travel Perspective session at World Travel Market earlier this month, shows travel lovers return to the service about 28 days a month. READ MORE
This Thanksgiving Holiday Travel Period Expected to Be Busiest Travel Season Ever
The Transportation Security Administration is expecting a record-breaking number of flyers for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday travel period with more than 25 million passengers traveling through security screening checkpoints nationwide from Nov. 16 through Nov. 26, a 5% increase from 2017. READ MORE
5 Fascinating Ways Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Retail Industry INC.
From 2013 to 2018, retail artificial intelligence startups raised $1.8 billion across 374 deals, according to a recent report by CB Insights. The flurry of activity is largely thanks to Amazon, which is forcing retailers to reconsider both their e-commerce and their physical store strategies to stay competitive. Amazon is expected to capture nearly half of all e-commerce sales and 5% of all retail sales by the end of 2018, according to eMarketer. So how exactly is A.I. changing the retail environment? Here are five of the most fascinating trends to watch from CB Insights' report. READ MORE
10 Ways to Ace Social Media Marketing in 2020 and Beyond MARTECH ADVISOR
Social media marketing is essential to any marketing strategy in an era where everyone is online. In fact, the sheer number of social media users in the world in 2018 – 3.196 billion – is staggering. Social media won’t remain the same as it is now. What counts as a trend today will be obvious tomorrow. Here’s a step-by-step guide to making sure your social media marketing strategy always stays current.
One Part Store, One Part Lab: Mall Owner Debuts Brandbox, a New Way to Allow Retailers to Test the Waters CNBC
Retail landlord Macerich this weekend is launching a concept known as BrandBox, a place where young brands can have their own stores, at Tysons Corner Center in the Washington, D.C., area. Macerich says it will take BrandBox to other malls and will continue to roll out new locations, as retailers like Sears, Toys R Us, Mattress Firm and Claire's shut stores. READ MORE
5 Signs You’re Not a True Leader After All LADDERS
Leadership is a tricky topic. It requires an immense amount of experience in the trenches to learn the hard lessons. It’s common for people to associate “leadership” with a title. A CEO is a “leader.” The creative director is a “leader.” Even your manager is a “leader.” But that’s not what leadership actually is. Leadership isn’t a badge you wear or a hat you put on in certain situations – “Time to step up and be a leader!” It goes back to the old cliché: Leaders lead by example. READ MORE
How to Up the Spontaneity Quotient on Your Next Trip THE NEW YORK TIMES
Serendipity is essentially a synonym for good luck, but it’s hardly random. “The harder you work, the luckier you get,” golfers like to say. Good news for globetrotters: No need to put in hours at the tourism range to lower your travel handicap. A few largely effortless adjustments can up your serendipity game. READ MORE
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Glenn Dubin, who co-founded Highbridge Capital Management LLC with a childhood friend more than 20 years ago, is stepping down and will remain chairman of the $31 billion firm, he said Thursday. Mr. Dubin sold a stake in Highbridge to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 2004, and the bank bought the rest in 2009.
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Michaels Breach Exposed Nearly 3 Million Cards
Michaels, the nation’s largest arts and crafts chain, said that nearly three million debit and credit cards may have been exposed in their data breach. The company said that the data security attack has been contained.
The company reported that close to 2.6 million cards used in payments at Michaels stores were potentially exposed between May 8, 2013 and January 27, 2014.
Another 400,000 cards may have been affected at Aaron Brothers stores between June 26, 2013 and February 27, 2014.
Michaels announced that debit and credit card numbers and expiration dates may have been exposed, but personal information such as addresses, names and PINs were not at risk. The company will offer credit monitoring, identity protection and fraud assistance to customers who have been affected by the breach.
Michaels operates over 1,100 stores around the country as well as selling products online.
This entry was posted in Credit Card News and tagged credit cards , debit cards , data breaches , stolen credit cards , personal information , stolen debit cards , Aaron Brothers , Michaels , Michaels breach , data attacks
The information contained within this article was accurate as of April 18, 2014. For up-to-date
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Blizzard has recently made clarifications on the upcoming Diablo IV Hardcore Race detail.
Diablo IV Contest Sparks Worries of Big Fans
Diablo IV launch is just around the corner and fans are already clamoring for all the information they can get about the game including the upcoming new modes and events. One of those events is to celebrate players who have reached a certain level peak on a specific difficulty mode that would be difficult to accomplish for casual players. Unfortunately, this has now sparked a debate where players who have gotten their copies ahead of others might get a better advantage in this contest. The developers made clarifications to ease worries.
The event in question is the Hardcore Victories Contest which is a race where the first 1000 players to reach level 100 on Hardcore will get their names immortalized on a statue of Lilith on the Blizzard campus. That would be a great honor for big fans of the franchise as they would set their mark on a place that they might not ever set foot on, but at least their names will be there. Since this contest is a matter of time, this got some fans worried.
Unfair Advantage Worries Dispelled
Fans got worried that reviewers who got the game earlier than everyone else will get a higher advantage over those who will be playing on launch day. This led Blizzard to amend the rules of the contest to ensure it would be fair. The developers clarified that players who had access to the review copies and employees of Blizzard and their affiliates and their immediate family members and people living in the same households will not be able to join this event. Blizzard also has the right to disqualify anyone who attempts to attempt the offer if they discover other outliers that could give them an unfair advantage. Cheaters, beware!
Major Website Leads Charge
Maxroll, a major website, that writes guides for games had plans to join the contest and compete with others, but it declared that it will not be claiming any prizes should one of its players win. Some have praised the website for leading the charge and believe other sites would do the same too.
For players competing, good luck in getting to level 100 in Hardcore!
Diablo IV launches on June 6, 2023 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.


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At the strategy conference of Baidu cloud computing on Wednesday, Baidu launched three intelligent cloud platforms. They will integrate with pre-existing cloud services for its open cloud platforms to help enterprises increase working efficiency. Baidu founder and CEO Robin Li said that Baidu has been a de facto search engine company from the very beginning, but that the company was bound to move into cloud technology, as efficient web searching is made possible via the cloud. Li said that Baidu used to consider cloud computing as too simple a technology and would rather focus on building its web search engine, but then some recent changes happened: On the one hand, the days are gone when economic development is accelerated by a cheap labor force, and companies today must survive using technological innovations and higher efficiency. On the other hand, cloud technology has been making breakthroughs, and it is no longer merely about storage and computing.
Apple is looking to broaden Siri's footprint and usefulness with help from third party app developers and a software development kit. The big question is whether the move will be able to thwart rivals such as Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa. From connected light bulbs, to plant sensors, to smart locks, and beyond, smart home tech is growing and evolving rapidly. Here you'll find the latest product reviews, news, and how-tos to help you connect your surroundings to the internet in the smartest way possible. The Information is reporting that Apple is opening up Siri to third-party applications.
The concept of machine learning has been around for decades, primarily in academia. Along the way it has taken various forms and adopted various terminologies, including pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, knowledge management, computational statistics, etc. Regardless of terminology, machine learning enables computers to learn on their own without being explicitly programmed for specific tasks. Through the use of algorithms, computers are able to read sample input data, build models and make predictions and decisions based on new data. This concept is particularly powerful when the set of input data is highly variable and static programming instructions cannot handle such scenarios. In recent years, the proliferation of digital information through social media, the Internet of Things (IoT) and e-commerce, combined with accessibility to economical compute power, has enabled machine learning to move into the mainstream.
Industry experts estimate that data volumes are doubling in size every two years. Managing all of this is a challenge for any enterprise, but it's not just the volume of data as much as the variety of data that presents a problems. With SaaS and on-premises applications, machine data, and mobile apps all proliferating, we are seeing the rise of an increasingly complicated value-chain ecosystem. IT leaders need to incorporate a portfolio-based approach and combine cloud and on-premises deployment models to sustain competitive advantage. Improving the scale and flexibility of data integration across both environments to deliver a hybrid offering is necessary to provide the right data to the right people at the right time.
BOSTON, Aug. 3, 2016 – AnDevCon – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the availability of HPE Mobile Center 2.0, an integrated software development testing suite designed to help organizations rapidly build, test, and deliver high-quality mobile applications. HPE Mobile Center leverages HPE Haven OnDemand, HPE Fortify on Demand, and open source testing tools including Selenium and Appium, allowing developers to test any app operation and cover any user scenario. To significantly scale the number of devices that are tested, HPE Mobile Center is now integrated with Amazon Web Services Device Farm (AWS Device Farm) – a service that helps mobile app developers quickly and securely test their apps on smartphones, tablets, and other devices to improve the quality of their Android and iOS apps. HPE is expanding Mobile Center capabilities to provide users with a predictable and repeatable mechanism for testing, monitoring, and improving any mobile app. The integration with HPE Haven OnDemand and HPE Fortify on Demand provides development teams with powerful capabilities that leverage machine learning from testing data and user feedback to help guide the application development direction, with security built in from the beginning.


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Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn plans world domination.
Can Renault-Nissan be the world's number one car manufacturer?
Company boss Carlos Ghosn certainly thinks so, telling Renault shareholders that he expects the car manufacturer to take over the world number one spot for sales this year. It currently sits in third place behind Volkswagen and Toyota.
Ghosn said at Renault's annual meeting that he was expecting to jump Toyota and Volkswagen in the standings this year: ‘We have been among the top three carmakers since January in sales volume, and we expect to be in the top spot by midyear, although this was not our goal.’
Renault currently sits 2,000 vehicles behind Toyota in the year-to-date figures from Jato Dynamics on 2.3m sales, and nearly 200,000 behind Volkswagen (2.5m sales) in the worldwide manufacturer standings.
Volkswagen’s growth is a slightly blunted 1.7 percent, with Toyota posting an impressive 7.8 percent growth compared with the same time in 2016, and Renault-Nissan surging ahead on 10.4 percent.
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General Motors has been taken out of the equation thanks to its decision to sell Vauxhall/Opel to Peugeot-Citroen and remove itself from the European market entirely.
Ghosn and the Renault-Nissan alliance took control of Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi in 2016, boosting its numbers by almost a million.
Growth in the group has come from rising Dacia sales around the world as well as Renault-Nissan’s early investment in electric vehicles starting to pay off. An all-new Nissan Leaf EV is expected to be revealed imminently.
Despite his optimism, Ghosn will face a stiff challenge from a Volkswagen keen to bounce back with a slew of new models after a troubling time over the Dieselgate scandal.
VW has ambitious plans to launch a range of new electric vehicles and expand its SUV line-up in the next three years.


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KSB reports strong increase in sales revenue
The KSB Group increased its sales revenue during the first six months by € 87.0 million (+ 8.6 %) to € 1,098.7 million. The pump and valve manufacturer announced this in its half-year financial report published today. Order intake grew by € 20.9 million (+ 1.8 %) over the same period to total € 1,152.8 million. The Group recorded strong order growth in its service business, while order intake in its project business was down on the comparative prior-year period.
For the period up to 30 June 2015, KSB generated earnings before income taxes (EBT) of € 28.6 million, representing an improvement of 38.0 % on the comparative period in 2014 (€ 20.7 million).
With regard to the full year, KSB expects the positive development to continue. Consolidated sales revenue is to grow significantly in 2015 compared with the previous year. Order intake is also anticipated to rise significantly. Power plant project orders expected to be received in the second half of the year should make a major contribution in this regard.
As far as earnings before income taxes (EBT) are concerned, KSB continues to anticipate considerable growth. The figure will depend on whether there will be a tangible recovery during the second half of the year of the industry’s unexpectedly weak economic activity.
Over the coming years KSB will continue to focus on markets in which it already ranks among the top players or in which it is aiming to assume a leading position. With a view to streamlining its production, the KBS management has launched a concentration process whose main aim is to cut the costs of European production.


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Nigerian man arrested in Islamabad for online fraud
On Wednesday, a Nigerian man was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cyber-crime unit for an online fraud of more than Rs 10 million.
“He has been taking money from people online disguised as a welfare worker,” said an FIA officer.
The Nigerian man was reportedly leading a gang and had been robbing people online for a while.
He has robbed money from people through various bank accounts, the officer said.
The fraud has been handed over to the FIA on a two-day physical remand. Additional investigations are under way.


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Channel 4 Sales launches data led commercial initiative for 4oD
Channel 4 today announced the launch of an innovative new commercial data initiative which will offer advertisers sub-demographic targeting on its market-leading video on demand service, 4oD.
This is Channel 4’s first commercial data offer to the market which harnesses first party viewer registration data from its database of over 6 million registered users, building upon the programme launched by David Abraham in 2011.
From this week, Channel 4 will begin a month long selection process to secure 12 data partners to form a pioneer group to engage in the first stage of this initiative – half of which will be new to digital advertising. The partners will reach a broad range of client categories and demographics to deliver key criteria such as minimum investment, campaign flight and demographic targeting.
The advertisers will be offered targeting against the same audiences that they buy on TV, such as 16-34, ABC1 and Housewives audiences on 4OD. During this first stage, Channel 4 will invest in a number of case studies to evaluate campaign effectiveness, incremental reach and greater insight into video on demand (VOD) user behaviour as well as access to Channel 4’s viewer research panel.
The pioneer group results from this ground-breaking initiative will be shared with the industry later this year.
Jonathan Lewis, Head of Digital & Partnership Innovation at Channel 4 said: “We’re really excited to introduce this new data pool initiative to the market which will showcase the benefits of improved targeting and the effectiveness of our 4oD platform to new advertisers – and enhance our existing clients’ digital engagement with audiences through greater targeting.
“Following an initial campaign evaluation of the pioneer group, we will be sharing the commercial benefits of targeting and our unique digital ad products.”
This announcement follows a number of new data initiatives presented at Channel 4‘s Upfront event last November.
Recently Channel 4 launched interactive ad format Adapt, to its existing portfolio of successful iVOD formats. For the first time Adapt allows advertisers to target advertising creative directly to know users on its database, based upon their age, gender and location. For example, an advertiser will now be able to serve targeted creative to the end user, referencing the right products and store location based upon Channel 4’s data.


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A new week will be interesting as we await Central Banks Meetings, more earnings reports, and NFP. Let's review the main headlines for this Monday as we prepare for volatile days ahead!
The UK Office for National Statistics will publish its Consumer Price Index (CPI) update on October 19 at 09:00 GMT+3, and Statistics Canada will release the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on October 19 at 15:30 GMT+3.
Bloomberg says yesterday’s movement was so far the wildest. It was the first time in history for the US500 to crash by 2% and close the day 2.8% above the neutral line. There’re several possible reasons for the move.
Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a higher-than-expected Producer Price Index with 0.2% m/m growth in September, meaning producers are still raising prices for goods and services.
Main news that will drive the market in the upcoming week include CB Consumer Confidence Index, Canadian GDP, and US Core PCE Price Index
The Federal Reserve (Fed) will announce its Interest Rate Decision and make a statement about the future monetary policy on Wednesday, September 21, GMT+3. After the higher-than-expected inflation numbers published on September 13, there’s almost no doubt the Federal Reserve will come up with another 75-basis-point rate hike. However, surprised by the CPI numbers, several Fed members announced the possibility of a 100-basis-point rate hike on Wednesday.
Every week we expect many interesting events that can shake the market.
Last week several important economic updates influenced the Forex market…
How Energy Crisis Affects German PMI August 23, 2022, 10:30 GMT+3 Germany will publish Flash Manufacturing PMI data on Tuesday, August 23, at 10:30 MT time (GMT+3)…
The US will announce the advanced Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on July 28 at 15:30 MT time.
The ECB will make a statement regarding the future monetary policy on Thursday, July 21, at 15:15 MT time (GMT+3).


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Strangely lost in last week’s iPhone 4 hype was Facebook's announcement of their “Open Graph Search Engine”. It is very young and therefore inelegant – but it is significant move that Google likely is worried about (at a time when Google is aiming to compete directly with Facebook) Facebook is beginning to index off-Facebook content within their search functionality… assuming it is Facebook “connected”. So just an entire industry emerged around Google SEO – publishers should undoubtedly be thinking about optimization within Facebook search.
And to Facebook, this is clearly is an effort to incent publishers to integrate Facebook on their core sites… and consequently: index the web, connect it to the Facebook social graph, and semantically AND socially unite the on / off Facebook experiences.
Powerful. Of course Facebook search is still a relatively small piece of Facebook’s experience – that will change over time. And this could be the acceleration point.
And for aggressive, forward thinking publishers – this marks a major opportunity… just like those early companies and individuals who dedicated resources to search optimization.


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Sonic Automotive (NYSE:SAH) was downgraded by equities research analysts at ValuEngine from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report released on Friday.
A number of other research firms also recently commented on SAH. Zacks Investment Research raised Sonic Automotive from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $23.00 target price on the stock in a report on Tuesday, January 9th. Bank of America downgraded Sonic Automotive from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating in a report on Thursday, October 19th. Finally, TheStreet raised Sonic Automotive from a “c+” rating to a “b” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Sonic Automotive has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $22.75.
Sonic Automotive (SAH) traded down $1.05 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $20.00. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 351,920 shares, compared to its average volume of 271,065. The company has a current ratio of 1.06, a quick ratio of 0.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.41. Sonic Automotive has a 52 week low of $15.95 and a 52 week high of $27.45. The company has a market cap of $863.90, a P/E ratio of 11.83, a PEG ratio of 3.15 and a beta of 1.58.
About Sonic Automotive
Sonic Automotive, Inc is an automotive retailer in the United States. The Company’s operating segments include Franchised Dealerships and EchoPark. Its Franchised Dealerships segment consists of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles and buy and sell used vehicles, sell replacement parts, perform vehicle repair and maintenance services, and arrange finance and insurance products.
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