NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Visa Inc. (NYSE: V). Shareholders who purchased shares of V during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery. CONTACT US HERE: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/visa-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=113428&from=3 CLASS PERIOD: November 16, 2023 to September 23, 2024 ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Visa was not in compliance with federal antitrust laws; (2) Visa did not have effective internal programs and policies to assess and control compliance with federal antitrust laws; and (3) as a result, defendants’ public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages. DEADLINE: January 21, 2025 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/visa-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=113428&from=3 NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of V during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is January 21, 2025. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case. WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is a nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes. CONTACT: The Gross Law Firm 15 West 38th Street, 12th floor New York, NY, 10018 Email: dg@securitiesclasslaw.com Phone: (646) 453-8903NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Devin Haid had 24 points in Cent. Conn. St.'s 84-80 win against Quinnipiac on Saturday. Haid added six rebounds and four steals for the Blue Devils (8-4). Max Frazier scored 17 points and added nine rebounds. Davonte Sweatman had 14 points and shot 5 for 9 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line. The Bobcats (5-7) were led by Amarri Tice, who posted 21 points, 10 rebounds and four steals. Paul Otieno added 13 points and six rebounds for Quinnipiac. Ryan Mabrey also recorded 12 points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

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News of an analyst's price-target hike plus a new round of capital-raising were the sparks that ignited Janux Therapeutics ( JANX 11.65% ) stock on Wednesday. The clinical-stage biotech's share price ended the day nearly 12% higher, and this was on a very good day for the exchange with the S&P 500 rising by 0.6%. Price-target raised, new shares floated Well before market open, Scotiabank pundit George Farmer aggressively raised his price target on Janux, cranking it nearly 50% higher to $62 per share. That doesn't necessarily make him a bull, though, as he maintained his recommendation of sector perform (hold, in other words). According to reports, Farmer wrote that the biotech company's current phase 1 trial of its JANX007 prostate cancer treatment is rather promising so far. That said, the analyst believes Janux hasn't yet honed a sharp competitive edge and isn't yet an attractive enough target for a pharmaceutical company to acquire it. What Janux has done, however, is push to extend its runway with a fresh share issue. After market hours Tuesday, the company said it had launched a $300 million secondary common stock flotation. Certain investors will have the option of purchasing pre-funded warrants instead of shares, and the issue's underwriters are expected to be granted a 30-day option to purchase an additional $45 million worth of shares collectively. A promising future? Janux said it aims to use its proceeds from the share issue "to advance clinical development of its internal product pipeline," in addition to general corporate purposes. The company focuses on cancer treatments, which continues to be a hot area for biotechs, but Farmer makes a good point that Janux hasn't distinguished itself sufficiently. However, it's a relatively young enterprise, and those recent clinical readouts are encouraging.FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Looking for hard-to-find bottles of Kentucky bourbon to toast the holidays or add to a collection? Get your bids ready as the Bluegrass State launches its first online auction of confiscated alcohol. Whiskeys up for sale include two bottles of Old Rip Van Winkle, a Blanton’s Single Barrel Gold in box with Japanese markings and a bottle of Four Roses Small Batch Barrel Strength 2011. The sale is the result of a new Kentucky law, which allows alcohol confiscated from closed criminal investigations by the state's alcoholic beverage control agency to be auctioned. Online bidding opens Wednesday and closes at midnight on Dec. 11. Proceeds will support programs promoting responsible alcohol use by adults and awareness programs for youths. “This is a really good auction,” Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, said by phone Tuesday. “There are some hard-to-find and rare bottles on there.” No estimate has been given on how much the auction might raise. “We look forward to seeing the response to this auction and have started planning additional auctions for 2025,” said Allyson Taylor, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The auction features 32 bottles of alcohol and includes a “stock the bar” bundle with bottles of wine, vodka, rum and whiskey, the agency said. But the stars are the hard-to-find and rare bourbons up for sale. “It’s not every day you go to a liquor store and find a bottle of Blanton’s Gold," Gregory said. “You never go to a liquor store and find a bottle of Four Roses 2011.” The lineup includes bottles of E.H. Taylor bourbon, Blanton’s Single Barrel, Eagle Rare 10 yr., Weller Antique 107, Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Rye, Michter’s, an Old Forester gift set and more. A link to the online auction is available at ABC.ky.gov . Auction items cannot be shipped, so winning bidders must pick up items in Frankfort, the state said. The auctions will become a “can't miss opportunity” for bourbon connoisseurs, Gregory said. Previously, confiscated bourbon or other spirits could end up being destroyed, he said. “We don't like to see good bourbon poured down the drain,” Gregory said. Kentucky distillers produce 95% of the global bourbon supply, the Kentucky distillers’ group says.Spacetech startup PierSight’s Varuna satellite to revolutionise maritime monitoring with advanced SAR technology

When the NCAA's playing rules oversight committee this past spring approved the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season, Kolpacki, Michigan State's head football equipment manager, knew the Spartans' QBs and linebackers were going to have a problem. "There had to be some sort of solution," he said. As it turns out, there was. And it was right across the street. Kolpacki reached out to Tamara Reid Bush, a mechanical engineering professor who not only heads the school's Biomechanical Design Research Laboratory but also is a football season ticket-holder. Kolpacki "showed me some photos and said that other teams had just put duct tape inside the (earhole), and he asked me, 'Do you think we can do anything better than duct tape,?" Bush said. "And I said, 'Oh, absolutely.'" Bush and Rylie DuBois, a sophomore biosystems engineering major and undergraduate research assistant at the lab, set out to produce earhole inserts made from polylactic acid, a bio-based plastic, using a 3D printer. Part of the challenge was accounting for the earhole sizes and shapes that vary depending on helmet style. Once the season got underway with a Friday night home game against Florida Atlantic on Aug. 30, the helmets of starting quarterback Aidan Chiles and linebacker Jordan Turner were outfitted with the inserts, which helped mitigate crowd noise. DuBois attended the game, sitting in the student section. "I felt such a strong sense of accomplishment and pride," DuBois said. "And I told all my friends around me about how I designed what they were wearing on the field." All told, Bush and DuBois have produced around 180 sets of the inserts, a number that grew in part due to the variety of helmet designs and colors that are available to be worn by Spartan players any given Saturday. Plus, the engineering folks have been fine-tuning their design throughout the season. Dozens of Bowl Subdivision programs are doing something similar. In many cases, they're getting 3D-printed earhole covers from XO Armor Technologies, which provides on-site, on-demand 3D printing of athletic wearables. The Auburn, Alabama-based company has donated its version of the earhole covers to the equipment managers of programs ranging from Georgia and Clemson to Boise State and Arizona State in the hope the schools would consider doing business with XO Armor in the future, said Jeff Klosterman, vice president of business development. XO Armor first was approached by the Houston Texans at the end of last season about creating something to assist quarterback C.J. Stroud in better hearing play calls delivered to his helmet during road games. XO Armor worked on a solution and had completed one when it received another inquiry: Ohio State, which had heard Michigan State was moving forward with helmet inserts, wondered if XO Armor had anything in the works. "We kind of just did this as a one-off favor to the Texans and honestly didn't forecast it becoming our viral moment in college football," Klosterman said. "We've now got about 60 teams across college football and the NFL wearing our sound-deadening earhole covers every weekend." The rules state that only one player for each team is permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field. For the Spartans, it's typically Chiles on offense and Turner on defense. Turner prefers to have an insert in both earholes, but Chiles has asked that the insert be used in only one on his helmet. Chiles "likes to be able to feel like he has some sort of outward exposure," Kolpacki said. Exposure is something the sophomore signal-caller from Long Beach, California, had in away games against Michigan and Oregon this season. Michigan Stadium welcomed 110,000-plus fans for the Oct. 26 matchup between the in-state rivals. And while just under 60,000 packed Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, for the Ducks' 31-10 win over Michigan State three weeks earlier, it was plenty loud. "The Big Ten has some pretty impressive venues," Kolpacki said. "It can be just deafening," he said. "That's what those fans are there for is to create havoc and make it difficult for coaches to get a play call off." Something that is a bit easier to handle thanks to Bush and her team. She called the inserts a "win-win-win" for everyone. "It's exciting for me to work with athletics and the football team," she said. "I think it's really exciting for our students as well to take what they've learned and develop and design something and see it being used and executed."

Qatar tribune PA Media/dpa London Car production in Britain fell by almost a third in November, the ninth consecutive month of decline, according to new figures. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 64,216 cars rolled off factory lines, 27,711 fewer than in November last year. Reasons for the reduction included weakness in global markets and the fact that production grew significantly in November last year, said the SMMT. Car makers are also retooling factories to make electric vehicles. More than 19,000 battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric cars were made in November representing almost a third of output. In the year to date, total UK car output has fallen by just under 13% to 734,562 units - 108,787 fewer than the same period in 2023 and almost half a million short of 2019 volumes, said the SMMT. Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said: “These figures offer little Christmas cheer for the sector. “While a decline was to be expected given the extensive changes under way at many plants, manufacturing is under pressure at home and abroad, with billions of pounds committed to new technologies, new models and new production tooling. “Government can help by supporting consumers in the transition, fast tracking its industrial strategy for advanced manufacturing and, most urgently, reviewing the market regulation which is putting enormous strain on the sector.” Copy 22/12/2024 10King laughs at British comedian’s impression of Donald Trump at Royal Variety

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U.S. stock futures opened little changed on Tuesday night as traders await the release of the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation gauge. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 20 points, or 0.04%. Meanwhile, S&P 500 futures also inched 0.04% higher, while Nasdaq-100 futures fell 0.03%. Philadelphia news 24/7: Watch NBC10 free wherever you are In other corporate news, several companies released their quarterly results. Dell Technologies tumbled 10% in extended trading as the company issued a disappointing forecast for the current quarter. Looking toward Wednesday, the personal consumption expenditures price index (PCE) is set for release at 10:00 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect a year-over-year increase of 2.8% for the core reading , which excludes food and energy. Investors will look through the data for indications on how the Fed may proceed on its rate policy at its upcoming December meeting. Indeed, the Fed issued the meetings from its November meeting on Tuesday. While central bank officials said they anticipate more interest rate cuts coming down the pike, they said the pace of cuts would happen "gradually." "I think they'll cut again [in December]," Stephen Stanley, Santander U.S. Capital Markets chief U.S. economist, told CNBC's " Power Lunch ." "I think they feel like they're still pretty far away from neutral, so they feel like they still have some distance to go and they'd like to get another notch in their belt on that." Other key inflation data out on Wednesday include personal income and consumer spending for October. That's also scheduled to be released at 10:00 a.m. ET. It's also a shortened trading week in the U.S., with the market dark for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and then set to close early Friday. Trading volume is anticipated to remain light. Even still, stocks finished in the green across the three major averages on Tuesday. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached fresh intraday and closing highs. Small-cap benchmark takes a breather but remains on track for big November gains It was a less-than-stellar session for the Russell 2000 , as it clipped a six-day winning run on Tuesday. The small-cap index lagged the three major averages, slumping about 0.7%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to fresh record closes. Nevertheless, the Russell 2000 is enjoying a strong November, as investors have snapped up cyclical stocks since Donald Trump won a second term in the White House earlier this month. The Russell is on track for a 10.4% jump month to date, besting the 5.5% gain the S&P 500 is carrying this month. The small-cap benchmark has also topped the Nasdaq Composite 's nearly 6% advance in November and the Dow's 7.4% jump. — Darla Mercado, Chris Hayes Dell Technologies, Workday among the names making moves in overnight trading Some stocks are making big moves in extended trading: Read here for the full list. — Sean Conlon Stock futures are little changed Stock futures opened little changed on Tuesday evening. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20 points, or 0.04%. S&P 500 futures likewise moved 0.04% higher, while Nasdaq-100 futures fell 0.03%. — Sean Conlon

Governor inaugurates PJTSAU’s diamond jubilee celebrationsThe South African State Theatre has recently unveiled an innovative video steaming platform called SAST TV, bringing with it the magic of live theatre directly into homes across all Mzansi and beyond. Designed to engage and inspire audiences of all ages, SAST TV will feature diverse high-quality content, including original theatre productions, dramatic performances, animations, podcasts, music, and exclusive live performances. With an intuitive, ultra-HD interface, SAST TV delivers an immersive viewing experience that places the viewer at the heart of each production. The user-friendly platform boasts a responsive menu that makes browsing and discovering content simple and enjoyable. Subscribers can easily explore genres, from contemporary drama to animated storytelling, and dive into culturally rich podcasts that highlight the best of South African and African theatre. “We are delighted to bring SAST TV to life,” says Aubrey Sekhabi the Artistic Director at the South African State Theatre. “Our platform is not only a digital stage but a bridge that connects artists and audiences, transcending geographical boundaries. It’s a groundbreaking way for us to celebrate, share, and preserve our culture and talent, while ensuring that everyone has access to world-class theatre experiences.” As SAST TV launches, it brings with it a rich array of productions that reflect the unique and diverse voices of South Africa’s arts scene. The service promises monthly new releases, exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and interactive events to foster engagement among theatre enthusiasts. Specially curated playlists will highlight local talent, with a mix of upcoming shows and beloved classics. You can access SAST TV through your mobile device, computer, and smart TV. The platform aims to make theatre accessible to all, offering a variety of subscription plans, including student and family options, and ensuring that quality content is available to everyone.

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