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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans raised its stake in Fair Isaac Co. ( NYSE:FICO – Free Report ) by 5.4% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 4,185 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 214 shares during the quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ holdings in Fair Isaac were worth $8,134,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. EntryPoint Capital LLC purchased a new position in shares of Fair Isaac in the 1st quarter worth $25,000. Capital Performance Advisors LLP purchased a new position in shares of Fair Isaac in the 3rd quarter worth about $25,000. Advisors Asset Management Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Fair Isaac in the 1st quarter valued at about $26,000. Tortoise Investment Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Fair Isaac by 81.8% during the 2nd quarter. Tortoise Investment Management LLC now owns 20 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $30,000 after purchasing an additional 9 shares during the period. Finally, Family Firm Inc. acquired a new stake in Fair Isaac during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $34,000. 85.75% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Fair Isaac Trading Up 0.8 % Shares of NYSE:FICO opened at $2,356.34 on Friday. Fair Isaac Co. has a 12-month low of $1,061.96 and a 12-month high of $2,402.51. The firm has a market cap of $57.37 billion, a PE ratio of 115.22, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.20 and a beta of 1.35. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $2,055.62 and a 200 day simple moving average of $1,721.12. Insider Transactions at Fair Isaac In other news, Director Henry Tayloe Stansbury sold 249 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $2,338.55, for a total value of $582,298.95. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 92 shares in the company, valued at approximately $215,146.60. The trade was a 73.02 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink . Also, EVP Thomas A. Bowers sold 2,680 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $2,338.21, for a total value of $6,266,402.80. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 5,769 shares in the company, valued at approximately $13,489,133.49. This represents a 31.72 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last 90 days, insiders sold 6,890 shares of company stock valued at $13,780,452. Insiders own 3.54% of the company’s stock. Analysts Set New Price Targets FICO has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Oppenheimer lifted their price target on shares of Fair Isaac from $1,967.00 to $2,109.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on shares of Fair Isaac from $2,130.00 to $2,374.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Robert W. Baird raised their price objective on Fair Isaac from $1,700.00 to $2,000.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on Fair Isaac from $2,200.00 to $2,400.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC raised their target price on Fair Isaac from $1,850.00 to $2,500.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $1,964.92. Read Our Latest Research Report on FICO Fair Isaac Company Profile ( Free Report ) Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and digital decisioning technologies and services that enable businesses to automate, enhance, and connect decisions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Scores and Software. 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NoneWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump's world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift, and his presidential transition team did not respond to a message seeking comment. Musk, the world's richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump's movement but his stance on the tech industry's hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry's need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent," he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump's own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump's businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country" and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he told the “All-In" podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump's budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes. Michelle L. Price, The Associated PressThe Sacramento Kings have fired coach Mike Brown less than halfway through his third season with the team mired in a five-game losing streak, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the firing hadn't been announced by the team. ESPN first reported the firing. Brown won NBA Coach of the Year in his first season in 2022-23, when he helped Sacramento end the longest playoff drought in NBA history at 16 seasons. But Sacramento lost in the play-in tournament last year and was off to a 13-18 start this season, leading to the move to fire Brown about six months after he agreed to a contract extension through the 2026-27 season. The Kings have lost an NBA-worst nine games this season after leading in the fourth quarter with the worst one coming in Brown's final game as coach Thursday night against Detroit. Sacramento led by 10 points with less than three minutes to play only to collapse down the stretch. Jaden Ivey converted a four-point play with 3 seconds left when he made a 3-pointer in the right corner and was fouled by De’Aaron Fox. That gave the Pistons a 114-113 win, leaving the Kings in 12th place in the Western Conference. The Kings came into the season with hopes of finishing in the top six in the West and avoiding the play-in tournament after acquiring DeMar DeRozan in a sign-and-trade deal over the summer to add to a core that featured Fox, Domanta Sabonis and Keegan Murray. Fox, who is in the second-to-last year of his five-year, $163 million contract, declined to sign an extension in the offseason. He said on a podcast with Draymond Green earlier this month that he wanted to be on a team that could “compete at a high level.” Sacramento has been far from that this season, thanks in large part to an NBA-worst 3-11 record in games decided by five points or fewer. Brown publicly criticized Fox for his role in the game-winning play Thursday night, saying he should have been closer to Ivey instead of committing a foul on a close out. "You should be hugged up to your man at the 3-point line,” Brown said. “Everybody should, and why there was a closeout by Fox, I’m not sure. I got to go back and watch the tape. But for sure 100% we told our guys, can’t give up a 3, can’t give up a 3, can’t give up a 3, stay on the high side, stay on the high side.” Brown has a 107-88 record in two-plus seasons in Sacramento with a winning record in both of his full seasons. Rick Adelman is the only other coach to post a winning record in a full season since the Kings moved to Sacramento Brown previously had two stints as coach in Cleveland and spent one-plus season as Lakers coach. He has a 455-304 record and has made the playoffs in seven of his nine full seasons. He won Coach of the Year twice, also getting the award in Cleveland in 2008-09. AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA

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Kremlin critic and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Vladimir Kara-Murza received the award which is in honour of the late US senator John McCain (AP Photo/Rob Gillies) A Canadian security forum has presented an award to British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was freed from prison earlier this year in a massive prisoner exchange. The Halifax International Security Forum presents the award annually in honour of US senator John McCain, who died in 2018, to “individuals from any country who have demonstrated uncommon leadership in the pursuit of human justice”. The forum attracts military officials, United States senators, diplomats and scholars. “I am humbled beyond words to be receiving this prize, but I view it first and foremost as your recognition of all my fellow Russian citizens who have the courage to stand up to Putin’s regime and to call out his murderous war in Ukraine in full knowledge what the price of that will be,” Mr Kara-Murza said. Mr McCain was a regular at the forum and his son, Jack McCain, presented Mr Kara-Murza with the award. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Mr Kara-Murza was a pallbearer at Mr McCain’s funeral. “It was described as his last dig at Vladimir Putin,” Jack McCain said. Mr Kara-Murza was freed in the massive prisoner exchange earlier this year with the West – the largest since the Cold War. He had been imprisoned in Russia since April 2022 and was convicted of treason for denouncing the war in Ukraine. He rose to prominence as a journalist and did columns as a contributor for The Washington Post from his prison cell. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary earlier this year. In 2015 and 2017, he suffered two near-fatal poisonings and developed polyneuropathy, a condition that deadens the feeling in his limbs. He blamed the poisonings on Russian authorities. Mr Kara-Murza rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to Mr Putin. Past winners of the John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service have included the people of Hong Kong for their “fight for their rights in the face of oppression from the government of China” and the people of Lesbos, Greece, “for their valiant actions to rescue refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East”. A Navy pilot, John McCain was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967. He was captured, beaten and held prisoner for more than five years, refusing to be released before other American service members. “Like Senator McCain, Kara-Murza was willing to stand up for his beliefs even if it came at the price of his freedom,” said Peter Van Praagh, the president of the Halifax International Security Forum.Another day, another wild electrified aircraft concept that reimagines the future of air travel in a way that fascinates and enthralls. This time around, it isn't a straight serving as protagonist, but a hybrid that tilts its ducted electric fans to offer helicopter versatility with airplane range and efficiency. Technically identified as a hybrid-electric vertical and short takeoff and landing (HeV/STOL) vessel, the newly modeled ANN Plus uses a turbine-electric powertrain to more economically bridge the gap between traditional air and ground transportation options. We've come to expect crazy, new electrified aircrafts to come from China by default, but Manta Aircraft is actually an Italian company, based in the northern region of Lombardy. That doesn't mean it's without connection to China, however, as it recently partnered up with Shenyang Aviation Industries Group with an eye toward accelerating development of its multi-craft ANN platform as a regional air mobility solution for the Chinese and South Asian markets. It's not surprising, then, that Manta debuted the latest member of the ANN series at the 2024 China Airshow last month, following up on the with a full-scale model of its largest variant yet, the ANN Plus. The new ANN Plus, also called the ANN-6, is a multipurpose six-seat craft aimed at personal mobility, business travel, medical response, and cargo transport. It's designed to accommodate a single pilot and five passengers. While it may push the limits of abbreviation convention and usefulness, Manta's HeV/STOL configuration looks to find the best blend of advantages of several different categories of cutting-edge aircraft. As an eVTOL, it takes off from anywhere, without the need for a runway, using four wing-mounted tilting ducted fans combined with four fixed ducted fans integrated into the fuselage. During flight, the wing fans tilt into forward-propulsive position and provide full thrust vectoring. Manta's hybrid propulsion system relies on a battery pack for primary power and runs as a pure-electric on short journeys, providing a 186-mile (300-km) zero-emissions range in the ANN Plus. This capability allows it to operate quietly, without emissions, through dense urban centers, sensitive wilderness areas and other environments. So, for instance, when you simply need to get to an appointment across the city quickly, it'll provide a clean, quiet lift over traffic, operating like a traditional eVTOL. Manta says it will be cheaper to own and operate than a helicopter. For mid- and long-range intercity and regional trips, the ANN still operates via the electric ducted fans but taps into a multi-fuel turbine-generator to charge the batteries. Manta estimates a total flight range up to 620 miles (1,000 km) for the ANN Plus and offers other range options for smaller vessels and different use cases. The ANN Plus has an estimated 130-knot (240-km/h or 150-mph) cruising speed and 178-knot (330-km/h or 205-mph) dash speed. That extra speed and range extend the ANN Plus' utility past that of an all-electric aircraft, and the short takeoff/landing capability helps to further its operational versatility. It can perform both short takeoff/vertical landing and short takeoff/short landing operations and has four times the endurance in STOL mode as in VTOL mode for a total of four hours. In terms of running the turbine-generator, biofuels like sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and Bio-Jet A1 are the plan for now, but Manta is developing the ANN platform with an eye toward future updates. So when battery technology improves to the point of offering that 620-mile range on its own, or the hydrogen economy matures enough to use a hydrogen engine or range-extending fuel cell stack, Manta will be able to swap in those solutions. Burrowing down more into the details of the ANN's potential use cases, Manta explains that its operational flexibility will allow it to be used for hopping between cities without airports; serving as a cheaper alternative to helicopters for emergency services; delivering offshore logistics support; and providing fast, efficient access into hard-to-reach remote areas. Since it's designed for smooth transitioning between VTOL and STOL operation, it can successfully bridge the gap between a helicopter and longer-range airplane during the same mission. At just over 40 feet (12.2 m), the full-scale ANN Plus mockup measures roughly 10.5 feet (3.2 m) longer than the two-seat ANN 2 and has a near-double 39.7-foot (12.1-m) wingspan to match. The carbon fiber fuselage accommodates the wider side-by-side seating arrangement, and the craft stands just over 9 feet (2.7 m) tall. The Plus design is otherwise quite similar to the ANN 2, with differentially moving canards up front, a pair of fuselage-embedded ducted fans in front of the cockpit and a second pair behind it, and a split-V tail fin. Visitors at the China Airshow weren't left to gawk at the ANN Plus while clinging to velvet rope; they actually got to step inside and experience the luxurious cabin. The interior includes two seats up front and four seats laid out in vis-a-vis arrangement in the rear. Premium materials like Nappa leather, Alcantara and carbon fiber adorn the surfaces and furnishings. The pilot relies on a redundant fly-by-wire system with hands-on throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) and a widescreen HMI. Manta has previously done extensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and wind tunnel testing on the ANN design, and plans to work with Shenyang Aviation Industries on the production technology for two full-scale prototypes and certification with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), ahead of launch and industrialization. Source:

Singer Khalid addresses sexuality speculation after being ‘outed’Kolkata: Trinamool Congress has witnessed an average 14 per cent positive vote swing in its favour in the bypolls. The maximum positive swing in vote share in favour of the ruling party at Sitai in Cooch Behar district is at 26.66 per cent. In Sitai, Trinamool Congress candidate Sangita Roy won by a massive margin of 1,30,156 votes, defeating her nearest rival, BJP’s Dipak Kumar Roy. Roy’s winning margin far surpassed that of the victory margin of her husband and the erstwhile Trinamool legislator, Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia, in the 2021 Assembly elections who had won by just 10,112 votes. In the bypolls Roy secured 76.08 per cent of the total votes polled up again from 49.92 per cent secured by her husband in 2021. The second highest positive vote swing in favour of Trinamool Congress in the latest bypolls was from Haroa in North 24 Parganas district at 19.29 per cent over what it was in the 2021 state assembly polls. Trinamool candidate Seikh Rabiul Islam won by the biggest margin in this round of bypolls, defeating his closest contestant and Left Front-supported All India Secular Front (AISF) candidate Piyarul Islam by a margin of 1,31,388 votes. In 2021 Rabiul’s father Haji Nurul Islam got elected by a margin of 80,978 votes. In the bypolls Rabiul secured 76.63 per cent of the total votes polled up again from 57.34 per cent secured by his father in 2021. The third highest positive vote swing for Trinamool Congress in the bypolls is from Madarihat in Alipurduar district at 17.49 per cent. There the ruling party candidate Jayprakash Toppo defeated his nearby BJP candidate Rahul Lohar by a margin of 28,168 votes, In the 2021 assembly elections, the erstwhile BJP candidate Maoj Tigga got elected by a margin of 29,685 votes defeating Trinamool Congress’s Rajesh Lakra. Tigga was elected from Madarihat in the two successive Assembly elections in 2016 and 2021. In fact, this is the first-ever victory of Trinamool Congress from Madarihat. In the bypolls Toppo secured 54.05 per cent of the total votes polled up again from 36.56 per cent by Lakra in 2021. In the Naihati assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district where Trinamool Congress witnessed a positive vote swing by 12 per cent from what it was in the 2021 state Assembly polls. In the bypolls, Trinamool candidate Sanat Dey won from the Naihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district, defeating his nearest contest Rupak Mitra of the BJP, by a margin of 49,277 votes up from the winning margin of erstwhile party candidate Partha Bhowmik of 18,885 in 2021. In the bypolls, Dey’s share of total votes polled stands at 62.97 per cent up against Bhowmik’s 50 per cent in 2021. In the Bankura district, where the positive vote swing in favour of Trinamool Congress had been comparatively lower at 5.98 per cent. Trinamool candidate Falguni Singhababu won by a margin of 33,856 votes over his nearest contestant and BJP candidate Ananya Roy Chakraborty, up from the victor margin of 34,082 of the erstwhile party legislator Arup Chakraborty in 2021. In the bypolls, Singhababu’s share of total votes polled stands at 62.07 per cent up again from Chakraborty’s share of 46.1 per cent in 2021. In the Medinipur Assembly constituency in West Midnapore district where the positive vote swing in favour of the ruling party in the bypolls had been just 2.72 per cent. Trinamool candidate Sujoy Hazra defeated his nearest contestant and BJP candidate Subhajit Roy by a margin of 33,996 vote up from the erstwhile party legislator June Malia’s victory margin of 24,397 votes. In the bypolls, Hazra’s share of total votes polled stands at 53.44 per cent up again from Malia’s share of 50.72 per cent in 2021.

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American and European stock markets mostly rose on Wednesday after inflation data cemented expectations that the US Federal Reserve will trim interest rates next month. While the Dow fell slightly, the other two major US indices advanced, led by the tech-rich Nasdaq, which piled on almost two percent to close above 20,000 points for the first time. The consumer price index (CPI) rose to 2.7 percent last month from a year ago, up slightly from 2.6 percent in October. "With the CPI numbers broadly in line, it is likely that the Fed will not be derailed and will cut rates again next week," Jochen Stanzl, chief market analyst at CMC Markets. "The data is not a showstopper for the current bull run on Wall Street," he added. Ahead of the data, investors priced in an 86 percent chance the Fed will cut interest rates next week by a quarter percentage point. That rose to more than 98 percent after the CPI data was published. Stocks in Paris and Frankfurt rose ahead of the European Central Bank's own interest rate announcement on Thursday, with analysts expecting another cut as it seeks to boost eurozone growth. Investors are also eyeing political developments in France, where officials said President Emmanuel Macron aims to name a new prime minister "within 48 hours" as he seeks to end political deadlock following the ouster of Michel Barnier. In company news, shares in German retail giant Zalando shed more than four percent on Frankfurt's DAX index, after it acquired domestic rival About You in a deal worth around 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion). Shares in Zara owner Inditex slid more than six percent after a record quarterly profit for the group fell short of market estimates. Among US companies, Google parent Alphabet earned 5.5 percent as it announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date. That added to gains after Google also announced Tuesday details of a breakthrough quantum chip. Shares in Shanghai rose but Hong Kong gave up an early rally to end in the red. Traders were keeping tabs on China to see if it will announce further measures to support its struggling economy as leaders were to gather Wednesday for a conference to hammer out next year's agenda. President Xi Jinping and other top leaders on Monday announced their first major shift in policy for more than a decade, saying they would "implement a more active fiscal policy and an appropriately relaxed" strategy. Those remarks sparked hopes for more interest rate cuts and the freeing up of more cash for lending. More from this section New York - Dow: DOWN 0.2 percent at 44,148.56 (close) New York - S&P 500: UP 0.8 percent at 6,084.19 (close) New York - Nasdaq Composite: UP 1.8 percent at 20,034.89 (close) London - FTSE 100: UP 0.3 percent at 8,301.62 (close) Paris - CAC 40: UP 0.4 percent at 7,423.40 (close) Frankfurt - DAX: UP 0.3 percent at 20,399.16 (close) Tokyo - Nikkei 225: FLAT at 39,372.23 (close) Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: DOWN 0.8 percent at 20,155.05 (close) Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.3 percent at 3,432.49 (close) Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.0498 from $1.0527 on Tuesday Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.2752 from $1.2771 Dollar/yen: UP at 152.40 yen from 151.95 yen Euro/pound: DOWN at 82.31 from 82.42 pence Brent North Sea Crude: UP 1.8 percent at $73.52 per barrel West Texas Intermediate: UP 2.4 percent at $70.29 per barrel burs-jmb/mlm