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Subscribe Search Search Sort by Relevance Title Date Subscribe ALBAWABA - Jordan's economic growth is expected to expand by 2.5% to 3% in 2025, propelled by better business conditions and increased investments, Jordan News Agency reports citing experts. Despite ongoing labor market difficulties, this rise is anticipated to marginally lower unemployment. Also Read Egypt and Jordan discuss collaborations in energy and natural gas The government's attempts to improve financial and social stability can be observed in important policies put into place in late 2024, such as tax cuts for electric cars and lighter fines for unregistered vehicles. These programs have increased economic activity and investor confidence, especially when combined with the continuing changes under the Economic Modernization Vision. Growth in GDP (current prices) between 2003-2023. 🇶🇦 Qatar: 893% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 395% 🇯🇴 Jordan: 373% 🇪🇬 Egypt: 368% 🇴🇲 Oman: 338% 🇦🇪 UAE: 310% 🇧🇭 Bahrain: 306% 🇮🇱 Israel: 297% 🇹🇷 Turkey: 265% 🇮🇷 Iran: 131% — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) November 22, 2024 According to economic analyst Dr. Adli Kandah, Jordan's steady 2.5% growth rate over the last 10 years offers a solid basis for development. He pointed to the possible advantages of easing sanctions on Syria and emphasized the possibilities presented by regional changes, especially in trade and investment. Prof. Dr. Raad Al-Tal, who teaches economics at the University of Jordan, highlighted how the nation's political stability and structural changes have enabled it to successfully handle geopolitical problems, such as the Gaza conflict. “The tourism sector, in particular, has shown notable recovery, bolstered by improved regional security and increased visitor numbers,” Al-Tal said, as reported by the Jordan News Agency. He also acknowledged that the country's foreign reserves had been strengthened by remittances from Jordanian expats. Despite regional constraints, Jordan's economy has proven resilient, according to economic analyst Dr. Ahmad Al-Majali. He credited this to the benefits of the Economic Modernization Vision, which has promoted development in a number of industries, as well as prudent monetary measures that have preserved stability. Experts concur that while 2025 seems promising, sustainable improvement would need effective public expenditure, ongoing reforms, and capitalizing on local trends. Sustainable development will also depend on boosting export competitiveness and accelerating large projects, as Jordan Times reports. Jordan has shown resilience in the face of external problems, as seen by its strong foreign exchange reserves, shrinking trade deficit, and increasing export volumes. A passionate about the Gaming Industry with a career of over 5 years in the field, I write about current trends and news in the Game Development business and how it impact the industry and players. Laith has recently started a new position at Al Bawaba as a freelance business writer. Subscribe Sign up to our newsletter for exclusive updates and enhanced content Subscribe Now Subscribe Sign up to get Al Bawaba's exclusive celeb scoops and entertainment news Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive updates and enhanced content Subscribe Also Read Top 10 Indian Billionaires in 2022

SAN DIEGO and TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aptose Biosciences Inc. (“Aptose” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: APTO, TSX: APS), a clinical-stage precision oncology company developing highly differentiated oral targeted agents to treat hematologic malignancies, today announced the closing of its previously announced "reasonable best efforts" public offering with participation from the CEO and existing and new healthcare focused investors for the purchase and sale of 40,000,000 common shares at a price of $0.20 per share and warrants to purchase up to 20,000,000 common shares (the “Offering”). The warrants have an exercise price of $0.25 per share, are exercisable immediately and will expire five years from the issuance date. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds of $8 million, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses, and intends to use the net proceeds from this Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes. A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as the sole placement agent for the Offering. The securities described above were offered pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-281201) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 2, 2024, as amended, which was declared effective on November 21, 2024. This Offering was made only by means of a prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement. A preliminary prospectus relating to the Offering has been filed with the SEC. An electronic copy of the final prospectus relating to the Offering may be obtained on the SEC's website located at http://www.sec.gov and may also be obtained from A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, 590 Madison Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (212) 624-2060, or by email at prospectus@allianceg.com . This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. About Aptose Aptose Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to developing precision medicines addressing unmet medical needs in oncology, with an initial focus on hematology. The Company's small molecule cancer therapeutics pipeline includes products designed to provide single agent efficacy and to enhance the efficacy of other anti-cancer therapies and regimens without overlapping toxicities. The Company’s lead clinical-stage, oral kinase inhibitor tuspetinib (TUS) has demonstrated activity as a monotherapy and in combination therapy in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and is being developed as a frontline triplet therapy in newly diagnosed AML. For more information, please visit www.aptose.com . Forward Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Canadian and U.S. securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements relating to the intended use of proceeds and statements relating to the Company’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements including words such as “continue”, “expect”, “intend”, “will”, “hope” “should”, “would”, “may”, “potential” and other similar expressions. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties and are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by us, are inherently subject to significant market and other conditions, business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements described in this press release. Such factors could include, among others: our ability to obtain the capital required for research and operations; the inherent risks in early stage drug development including demonstrating efficacy; development time/cost and the regulatory approval process; the progress of our clinical trials; our ability to find and enter into agreements with potential partners; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; changing market and economic conditions; unexpected manufacturing defects and other risks detailed from time-to-time in our ongoing current reports, quarterly filings, annual information forms, annual reports and annual filings with Canadian securities regulators and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the assumptions set out in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our filings with Canadian securities regulators and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission underlying those forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and we do not intend, and do not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. We cannot assure you that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein. 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Rams WR Demarcus Robinson not suspended, will play Sunday after arrest on DUI suspicionJimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency of anyone to hold the office, and one of the most active. Here is a look back at his life. 1924 — Jimmy Carter was born on Oct. 1 to Earl and Lillian Carter in the small town of Plains, Georgia. 1928 — Earl Carter bought a 350-acre farm 3 miles from Plains in the tiny community of Archery. The Carter family lived in a house on the farm without running water or electricity. 1941 — He graduated from Plains High School and enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College in Americus. 1942 — He transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. 1943 — Carter’s boyhood dream of being in the Navy becomes a reality as he is appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. 1946 — He received his naval commission and on July 7 married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. They moved to Norfolk, Virginia. 1946-1952 — Carter’s three sons are born, Jack in 1947, Chip in 1950 and Jeff in 1952. 1962-66 — Carter is elected to the Georgia State Senate and serves two terms. 1953 — Carter’s father died and he cut his naval career short to save the family farm. Due to a limited income, Jimmy, Rosalynn and their three sons moved into Public Housing Apartment 9A in Plains. 1966 — He ran for governor, but lost. 1967 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s fourth child, Amy, is born. 1971 — He ran for governor again and won the election, becoming Georgia’s 76th governor on Jan. 12. 1974 — Carter announced his candidacy for president. 1976 — Carter was elected 39th president on Nov. 2, narrowly defeating incumbent Gerald Ford. 1978 — U.S. and the Peoples’ Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. President Carter negotiates and mediates an accord between Egypt and Israel at Camp David. 1979 — The Department of Education is formed. Iranian radicals overrun the U.S. Embassy and seize American hostages. The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty is signed. 1980 — On March 21, Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled in Moscow. A rescue attempt to get American hostages out of Iran is unsuccessful. Carter was defeated in his bid for a second term as president by Ronald Reagan in November. 1981 — President Carter continues to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Iran. Minutes before his term as president is over, the hostages are released. 1982 — Carter became a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta, and founded The Carter Center. The nonpartisan and nonprofit center addresses national and international issues of public policy. 1984 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteer one week a year for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes, until 2020. He also taught Sunday school in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains from the mid-’80s until 2020. 2002 — Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2015 — Carter announced in August he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain. 2016 — He said in March that he no longer needed cancer treatment. 2024 — Carter dies at 100 years old. Sources: Cartercenter.org, Plains Historical Preservation Trust, The Associated Press; The Brookings Institution; U.S. Navy; WhiteHouse.gov, GallupMumbai: While the contest was between the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, which together constitute six major parties, in the Maharashtra assembly polls, independent candidates showed their mettle by standing second in 19 constituencies. The Mahayuti swept the polls to the 288-member assembly, with BJP bagging 132 seats while Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena got 57 and 41 went into the kitty of the NCP. The opposition Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) of Sharad Pawar managed to win just 16, 20 and 10 seats, respectively. In Aheri constituency in Gadchiroli district, independent candidate Raje Ambrish Rao Raje Satyavanrao Atram, who had previously won in 2014 as a BJP candidate and was also a minister in the Devendra Fadnavis government, lost to Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Atram Dharamraobaba Bhagwantrao by just 16,814 votes. In Airoli constituency in Navi Mumbai, BJP’s Ganesh Naik defeated independent challenger Vijay Chougule by 91,880 votes. However, Chougule managed to race ahead of the contestant from Shiv Sena (UBT). In Amalner (Jalgaon district), independent candidate Shirish Hiralal Chaudhari finished second to NCP’s Anil Bhaidas Patil. He lost the poll by 33,435 votes. Similarly, in Beed’s Ashti constituency, BJP’s Dhas Suresh Ramchandra won by 77,975 votes, while independent candidate Bhimrao Anandrao Dhonde finished second. The Badnera constituency in Amaravati district saw independent candidate Priti Sanjay Band finish runner-up to Ravi Rana of the Rashtriya Yuva Swabhiman Party. Rana was backed by the BJP in Badnera. In Kalyan East, Mahesh Dashrath Gaikwad, an independent candidate, lost narrowly to BJP’s Sulbha Ganpat Gaikwad by 26,408 votes. Sulbha is the wife of BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, who is in jail after firing at Mahesh Gaikwad inside a police station. In Kannad constituency (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district), independent candidate Jadhav Harshwardhan Raibhan was defeated by his estranged wife Ranjanatai (Sanjana) Harshvardhan Jadhav of Shiv Sena by 18,201 votes. In Raigad’s Karjat constituency, independent candidate Sudhakar Parshuram Ghare finished second to Shiv Sena’s Thorve Mahendra Sadashiv by a margin of 5,694 votes. In Solapur district’s Karmala constituency, NCP’s Narayan (Aba) Govindrao Patil won by 16,085 votes against independent candidate Shinde Sanjaymama Vithalrao, while the in Kolhapur North Shiv Sena’s Rajesh Vinayak Kshirsagar defeated Congress-backed independent candidate Rajesh Bharat Latkar by 29,563 votes. In Solapur’s Madha constituency, independent candidate Ranjit Babanrao Shinde lost to NCP’s Abhijeet Dhananjay Patil by 30,621 votes. Malegaon Outer (Nashik) saw a massive 106,606 vote victory for Shiv Sena’s Dadaji Dagdu Bhuse over independent candidate Pramod Bandukaka Purushottam Bachhav. In Maval constituency (Pune district), NCP’s Sunil Shankarrao Shelke defeated independent candidate Anna Alias Bapu Jaywantrao Bhegade by a margin of 108,565 votes. In Nashik’s Nandgaon constituency, independent candidate Bhujbal Sameer, who rebelled against the NCP, lost by 89,874 votes to Shiv Sena’s Suhas Kande. In Nandurbar constituency, independent candidate Sharad Krishnarao Gavit lost to Congress’ Shirishkumar Surupsing Naik by 1,121 votes. Independent candidate Satyajit Vikramsingh Patankar was defeated by Shiv Sena’s Desai Shambhuraj Shivajirao by 34,824 votes in Satara’s Patan constituency. Similarly, in Nagpur’s Ramtek constituency, Congress-backed independent Rajendra Bhurao Mulak lost by 26,555 votes to Shiv Sena’s Ashish Nandkishore Jaiswal. In Washim district’s Risod constituency, independent candidate Anantrao Vitthalrao Deshmukh finished second to Congress’s Ameet Subhashrao Zanak, who won by 6,136 votes. In Dhule’s Shirpur constituency, independent candidate Dr. Jitendra Yuvraj Thakur was defeated by BJP’s Kashiram Vechan Pawara by a massive margin of 1,45,944 votes. This was the highest margin of victory recorded in these elections. In Shrigonda (Ahilyanagar constituency), independent candidate Rahul Jagtap lost to BJP’s Babanrao Pachpute by 37,156 votes. The poll in Warora (Chandrapur district) was also closely contested, with BJP’s Karan Sanjay Deotale emerging victorious over independent candidate Mukesh Manoj Jiwtode by 15,450 votes. Two independent candidates won in the Maharashtra assembly polls, results of which were declared on Saturday. Sharaddada Sonawane emerged victorious from Junnar seat in Pune district, while Shivaji Shattupa Patil won from Changad in Kolhapur. Incidentally, the outgoing assembly had 13 independent MLAs. A total of 4,136 candidates were in the fray for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly elections, of which 2,086 were independents.Jones, Mellott help Montana State run over Montana 34-11

Workers all over the world have every right to agitate for improved welfare. These rights are fully captured in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) charter, which grants the right of workers to bargain for better working conditions and welfare. Also, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), as well as Nigeria Labour Act (2004), all recognise these rights. In Nasarawa state, the Governor Abdullahi Sule administration has continuously recognised the right of workers to agitate for better welfare. There is ongoing agitation by workers across the country, Nasarawa state inclusive, regarding the implementation of the National Minimum Wage Act 2024, which pegged the new national minimum wage at N70,000. Consequently, it has become necessary to refresh the minds of workers in Nasarawa state, as well as the general public, on the various interventions by the Sule administration to improve the welfare of the state’s workers. This pertinent following concerted efforts to misinform the public, especially in the wake of the strike by state’s workers recently for the implementation of the new minimum wage. First and foremost, Governor Sule was elected into office from a background of the organised private sector where he rose to the enviable position of the Group Managing Director of the Dangote Sugar company. He came into office, therefore, with the knowledge and experience to handle issues relating to the workers’ welfare. Therefore, for Governor Sule, workers’ welfare is the top priority, given their critical role towards actualising the development agenda of the state government. When he came onboard in May 2019, the governor met a situation where civil servants both were paid in percentages. He swiftly ensured that workers received their full monthly wages. Governor Sule also implemented the N30,000 national minimum wage. He inherited a salary arrears of N726,000 million, which was paid to civil servants in three installments starting from January 2021 to March 2021. This was in fulfillment of the governor’s promise to labour to enhance workers’ welfare. Workers were also promoted, with Nasarawa state now among the few states in the country that are up to date in the promotions of workers. Over 8,000 workers were employed, 1,000 casual workers got permanent employment status, while residential quarters were given to civil servants on owner-occupier basis, with another 300 housing units in Luvu (Masaka) ready to be allocated to workers through mortgage financing. He has also cleared backlog of outstanding gratuities for retired workers in the state from 1996 to 2011, ensuring that retirees receive full payment. Governor Sule cleared the 26 years backlog of gratuities. Obviously, some civil servants in Nasarawa state are quick to forget all these well intentioned interventions and much more, particularly now that their focus is on the implementation of the 70,000 national minimum wage. While it is their right to agitate for the implementation of this new wage, they should also endeavour to appreciate that Governor Sule earned the name the labour union gave him as the ‘Most Labour Friendly Governor’. They should not to throw the baby with the bathe water as they jostled for the new wage. Already, Governor Sule has approved N70,500 minimum wage in the state and has demonstrated his willingness to implement a consequential adjustment for other category of workers. Leaders of organised labour in Nasarawa state should therefore have a rethink and consider all the laudable initiatives the present government executed purposely to enhance the welfare of workers in the state. Since the commencement of the debate on the new national minimum wage, Governor Sule has been forthright in dealing with members of the organised labour, always carrying them alone in all the meetings where the new wage would be discussed. At one of such meetings, where the Governor made known his intention to implement the new minimum wage, it was the organised labour in the state that intervened and urged him not to implement the new minimum wage. They instead asked him to implement their promotions, which he did. It is therefore unfair to Governor Sule for any worker to turn around and accuse him of failing to implement the new minimum wage. The new minimum wage is a law, and the governor has always been on the side of the law. According to Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, who doubles as the Chairman of the National Minimum Wage Implementation Committee, Governor Sule has already directed the finance commissioner and the accountant general to facilitate the payment of the new wage this December. It is also worthy of note that the minimum wage is the lowest amount of money that an employer is legally required to pay an employee for their work. It is a wage floor, below which employers are not allowed to pay their employees. It therefore means that for those who already receive more than the minimum wage as salary such would only benefit in percentages. Indeed, workers in Nasarawa state should learn to appreciate Governor Sule for all that his administration is doing and would do to better the lives of not only civil servants but the entire population of the state.PM to inaugurate ICA Global Cooperative Conference on MondayTrump's proposed tariffs on Canada would drive up pump prices, analysts warn

New Zealanders are feeling noticeably more positive about the housing market, and ASB's economists say that is likely to turn into more activity, and rising prices. The bank's latest housing confidence survey shows an increase across all of its measures - house price expectations lifted, there was positivity about interest rates continuing to drop and improving sentiment about whether it's a good time to buy. A net 20 percent of respondents thought it was a good time to buy, up from 8 percent last quarter. Aucklanders had some of the strongest expectations of house price increases, where a net 29 percent think prices will rise, up from 13 percent last quarter. A reading of zero would indicate respondents were evenly split. ASB senior economist Kim Mundy said the turnaround in sentiment was not surprising given the "substantial" decline in mortgage rates since mid-July. She said expectations that prices would rise were growing at a slower pace. "While the housing market is certainly poised to pick up, and Real Estate Institute data shows sales activity is already on the rise, it may take some time before this translates into a pronounced upswing in house prices... while this might point to a pickup in market momentum, it might not point to a pickup in price gains as quickly. She said falling interest rates were one of the main factors pushing activity higher but that could be offset by other economic factors, such as a rising unemployment rate and uncertainty. "If you have any concerns about the safety of your job or being made redundant you're not going to be in the market to buy a house irrespective of what interest rates are doing. "Our survey data shows overall confidence levels remain lower than what we observed at the start of the year - close to 72 percent of those surveyed expect house prices to remain flat or rise, compared to 90 percent in the first quarter of 2024 which suggests New Zealanders may be concerned about other economic impacts that may hinder house price gains such as rising unemployment and slowing net migration." ASB had previously expected prices to rise by 10 percent next year but Mundy said that was under review. There was a lot of stock on the market, which could have a dampening effect on prices, she said. "Inventory is at 10-year highs, there are plenty of houses to choose from so buyers are not having to pay up or fight to get the one they want." She said overall the coming months were likely to have a trend of growing housing market optimism. "We expect that to turn into higher house prices."Caprock Group LLC Lowers Stake in T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TROW)Schwab Charles Corp executive sells $188k in stock

Bengaluru News: A marketing strategist has sparked debate online after sharing a photo of "human ads" in Bengaluru. The image depicts men walking down a street at night, carrying illuminated advertisement boards promoting a 10-minute food delivery service. The post, shared by X user Roshan, included a humorous caption that poked fun at the unconventional marketing strategy. "VC: How much funding do you need? Startup: $5 million. VC: What's your customer acquisition plan? Startup: Human ads. VC: Take my money," he wrote. He further expressed his disapproval, stating, "This sucks. I would do it differently and not use human mules." VC : how much funding do you need ? Startup : 5 million $ VC : what's your customer acquisition plan Then : Human ads VC : Take my money pic.twitter.com/67BkVHLG1j ALSO READ: College Student Interning In Bengaluru Says, 'Got Harassed And Threatened' By Auto Driver | WATCH Viral Video What Are Human Billboards? Billboards are not a new concept, they have been used since the 19th century to promote various businesses and offers. As advertising posters faced increased taxation and competition for wall space, businesses began employing individuals to carry advertisements. Over the years, this practice has evolved into illuminated electronic boards that can be worn on the back. Despite their historical usage, the recent application of human billboards in Bengaluru has drawn criticism on social media, with many users describing the practice as "extremely dehumanising." ALSO READ: Karnataka Weather: Bengaluru, Raichur And Other Districts Likely To See Rain From Dec 12-14 | Check Forecast Public Reaction On Social Media Responses on social media have varied, with some users expressing sadness over the sight of individuals burdened with heavy boards. One user commented, "Maybe it’s just me, but human ads make me so sad; they’re walking around with that heavy thing on their backs for God knows how long." Another added, "I don't know how anyone can see this and not feel sick in their stomach." Conversely, others pointed out that such advertising methods have been long used by companies to generate buzz in urban areas.Eduardo Camavinga has joined Real Madrid ’s lengthy injury list after picking up a hamstring issue during Wednesday night’s Champions League defeat to Liverpool . The France international, 22, was forced off just before the hour mark of the 2-0 defeat at Anfield with what appeared to be an injury to his left leg. He was replaced by Dani Ceballos . Advertisement The midfielder missed 12 games for club and country earlier this season with a left knee injury picked up in training prior to the UEFA Super Cup win over Atalanta in August. Any significant absence will be keenly felt by Carlo Ancelotti’s side, who have seven games in a little over three weeks before their winter break. The club have been hit with a number of injuries this season. Eder Militao and Dani Carvajal are set for long spells out after suffering anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries while David Alaba is still working his way back from his own ACL tear. Camavinga’s fellow midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni is currently sidelined with an ankle knock while Vinicius Junior this week suffered a hamstring injury which is likely to keep him out for three weeks. The Champions League trip to Atalanta on December 10 is a possible target for the Brazil international. “Last year it wasn’t so different, we had this kind of problem,” Ancelotti said after the game. “Today another player went down and we have to put up with it. Hopefully Rodrygo or Tchouameni can come back for the next game.” Real Madrid return to action against Getafe in La Liga on Sunday. GO DEEPER The Briefing: Liverpool 2-0 Madrid - Are Slot's team the best in Europe? And what now for Mbappe? (Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)UroGen Pharma ( NASDAQ:URGN – Get Free Report ) ‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by equities researchers at D. Boral Capital in a research report issued on Friday, Benzinga reports. They presently have a $25.00 price objective on the stock. D. Boral Capital’s price objective would suggest a potential upside of 103.42% from the stock’s previous close. Several other analysts have also recently issued reports on URGN. HC Wainwright restated a “buy” rating and set a $60.00 price objective on shares of UroGen Pharma in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. Guggenheim initiated coverage on UroGen Pharma in a research report on Thursday, August 22nd. They set a “buy” rating and a $40.00 price target on the stock. Oppenheimer restated an “outperform” rating and set a $40.00 price objective on shares of UroGen Pharma in a research note on Wednesday, October 16th. Finally, EF Hutton Acquisition Co. I upgraded shares of UroGen Pharma to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday, October 14th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, UroGen Pharma currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $43.70. Read Our Latest Report on URGN UroGen Pharma Trading Up 0.7 % UroGen Pharma ( NASDAQ:URGN – Get Free Report ) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, November 6th. The company reported ($0.55) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.84) by $0.29. The company had revenue of $25.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $24.22 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted ($0.68) EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that UroGen Pharma will post -3.1 EPS for the current fiscal year. Institutional Inflows and Outflows Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Coastal Bridge Advisors LLC increased its position in UroGen Pharma by 4.1% in the second quarter. Coastal Bridge Advisors LLC now owns 38,500 shares of the company’s stock worth $646,000 after buying an additional 1,500 shares during the period. Rice Hall James & Associates LLC increased its holdings in shares of UroGen Pharma by 3.4% in the 2nd quarter. Rice Hall James & Associates LLC now owns 72,787 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,221,000 after acquiring an additional 2,381 shares during the period. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. lifted its position in UroGen Pharma by 90.9% in the 3rd quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 8,100 shares of the company’s stock valued at $103,000 after purchasing an additional 3,856 shares during the last quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC boosted its stake in UroGen Pharma by 3.7% during the 2nd quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 151,781 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,547,000 after purchasing an additional 5,452 shares during the period. Finally, BNP Paribas Financial Markets boosted its stake in UroGen Pharma by 221.8% during the 3rd quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 8,546 shares of the company’s stock valued at $109,000 after purchasing an additional 5,890 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 91.29% of the company’s stock. UroGen Pharma Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) UroGen Pharma Ltd., a biotechnology company, engages in the development and commercialization of solutions for urothelial and specialty cancers. It offers RTGel, a novel proprietary polymeric biocompatible, reverse thermal gelation hydrogel technology to improve therapeutic profiles of existing drugs; and Jelmyto for pyelocalyceal solution. Featured Articles Receive News & Ratings for UroGen Pharma Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for UroGen Pharma and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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From Okwe Obi, Abuja Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has identified nepotism as part of Nigeria’s problem, saying that ministerial appointments among others were often based on personal relationships rather than merit. He also attributed the country’s problem to lack of knowledge, capacity and preparedness of its leaders. The fiery cleric specifically reiterated that the likes of former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari came to power unprepared. He, however, said it was unfortunate that millions of Nigerians still battle poverty despite President Bola Tinubu’s “preparedness” to govern the country. Kukah stated this at the fourth Amaka Ndoma-Egba Memorial Lecture, with the theme, “Leaders of tomorrow: Creating lasting change in a complex world,” in Abuja. The wife of former Senate leader, Ndoma Egba, died in an autocrash in Ondo State in 2020. He said: “I do not want to bore you, but run through, from the beginning, you will find out that almost everybody who came to power in Nigeria was as the result of one accident or the other. “President Tinubu, well, he prepared for it. However, we are still trying to get off the ground. But he took over from Buhari, who had already given up. “Buhari took over from Jonathan, who was thinking that after being deputy governor, he would go somewhere else and then something happened. “Jonathan took over from Yar’Adua, who had actually said he was going to teach at Ahmadu Bello University as he was finishing his term as governor. “Yar’Adua took over from Obasanjo, who was in prison, and was not expecting to come out but he somehow found himself out of prison. “Obasanjo took over from Abacha, who, sadly, even though the five political parties had said he would rule forever, was taken by nature. “Abacha took over from Ernest Shonekan, who was busy at the United African Company of Nigeria, and then they told him to come and be head of state. We can go all the way down but fundamental to governance is knowledge.” He reminded political office holders that the benefit of democracy is beyond physical infrastructure like roads, railways, and other projects, but the wellbeing of citizens. According to him, if democracy is solely about infrastructure, people would still be praising authoritarian regimes like Adolf Hitler and apartheid South Africa, which he said built impressive infrastructure during their reigns. “Democracy’s benefits are often not necessarily measurable. They are largely intangible. It is understanding how to expand the frontiers of human imagination,” he stated. He observed that Nigerians are impatient with the current state of democracy in the country, which he noted is hardly working. Kukah stated that despite the country’s little progress, Nigerians are never satisfied. He added that the nation would never be in a perfect place because such places do not exist. He said: “We have made a choice to live with democracy as it is. We know that our democracy is hardly working, although I would make quick to say that we are very impatient with ourselves; very, very impatient. “Nigerians are surprised when I say we have done pretty well. We are absolutely not happy and we will probably never be happy, because that’s not how the world is. You’ve got this, you want this, you want that. We are insatiable. “Now, we are not in a perfect place, because perfect places don’t exist, and we shouldn’t be looking for leaders who will take us to a place of perfection, because nobody has found that kind of place. However, there are minimum conditions that we require in a leader, and I think we need to use them to measure the whole concept of leadership. The bishop stressed the need for leaders to have set goals, boldness, courage, and patriotism, adding that true leadership was about influencing citizens, not just holding office. Meanwhile, Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, commissioned a legacy building in honour of the deceased. NDLEA Chairman, Marwa, who was chairman of the occasion, used the opportunity to expose the students, teachers and even parents to dangers of drug and substance abuse to their lives. He asked the students to eschew actions that could lead them to drug and substance abuse, so they can fully actualise their potential in life.On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter —sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the White House to watch the installation of thirty-two solar water-heating panels. “A generation from now,” he told them, “this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.” A generation later, one of those panels showed up in a private museum in the offices of an entrepreneur named Huang Ming, in the city of Dezhou, China. In the spring of 2010, I interviewed Ming, who was building a vast fortune by installing pretty much the same solar water heaters across the country. If you’re flying into a Chinese city, look down and you might see one of the devices on every other roof; even back then there were places where ninety-five per cent of homes sported a panel. Ming had built a truly remarkable headquarters—the so-called Sun-Moon Mansion looked like something out of “The Jetsons,” with two sweeping horseshoes of solar panels that resembled the rings of Saturn cut in half. Ming described Carter as a visionary, and shook his head a little ruefully at the path America hadn’t followed. That path—well, it’s truly painful to look back on it now, from the vantage point of an Earth where the poles are melting fast, where Africa may be losing fifteen per cent a year of its G.D.P. per capita because of the effects of warming, and where a senior climate adviser for the current President recently said that we now need “a transformation of the global economy on a size and scale that’s never occurred in human history” to “create a livable future for ourselves and our children.” Jimmy Carter, who was elected in 1976, wasn’t focussed on global warming, though advisers were beginning to warn him about it. Even without the existential impetus of climate change, though, struggling to stay politically afloat during the geopolitical crises that came with the twin oil shocks of the seventies—one caused by OPEC ’s embargo, the other largely by the Iranian Revolution—he sensed how high the stakes really were. The energy crisis, he told Americans early on, using adult language that it’s impossible to imagine an American President using today, was a reminder that “ours is the most wasteful nation on earth.” By 1979, gas-station lines were causing alarm in suburbia, and knocking the edge off his popularity. But, instead of simply drilling more oil wells (America was just a decade removed from the Santa Barbara oil spill and the first Earth Day), he treated the trouble as an opportunity. “All the legislation in the world can’t fix what is wrong with America,” he said. “Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.” It was time to act on the realization that “owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning . . . that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.” That world view—the very thing Carter has been lauded for in retrospect, amid images of him building houses for the poor, teaching Sunday school, and holding hands with Rosalynn, his beloved wife of seventy-seven years, in the same modest house in which they lived for decades, until her death, in November—was less popular politically. Not unpopular: with a few weeks to go until the 1980 election, he was still well ahead in the polls, before a late surge from Ronald Reagan ended his political career. But not popular enough: that election was the hinge point in our national political life, when we turned our back on the idea of America as a group project that we’d been pursuing since F.D.R. , and instead embraced the vision that government was the problem, that markets took care of all ills, that our job was to look after our own individual selves. Reagan had no qualms about drilling everywhere: the price of gas dropped, cars turned into S.U.V.s, and we started driving the Earth toward the edge of the cliff. It wasn’t just noble sentiments that Carter offered in the leadup to the 1980 election, however. In fact, in the wake of the oil shocks, his main policy proposal was for solar power. His main domestic-policy adviser, Stuart Eizenstat, told him that “a strong solar message and program will be important in trying to counter the hopelessness which polls are showing the public feels about energy. . . . I’m quite convinced Congress and the American people want a Manhattan-type project on alternative energy development.” Carter agreed and started proposing measures designed to make sure that, by the year 2000, a fifth of the country’s energy would come from solar power. He called for spending a hundred million dollars in fiscal year 1980 to create a solar bank. He asked for additional hundreds of millions to fund solar projects and research, and offered a billion dollars in tax credits to homeowners who wanted to put panels on their roofs or install wind-energy systems. He declared May 3, 1978, to be Sun Day, and delivered a speech (in a driving rain—he was characteristically unlucky) from a federal solar-research facility in Golden, Colorado. “The question is no longer whether solar energy works,” he said. “We know it works. The only question is how to cut costs so that solar power can be used more widely and so that it will set a cap on rising oil prices.” He continued, “Nobody can embargo sunlight. No cartel controls the sun. Its energy will not run out. It will not pollute the air. It will not poison our waters. It’s free from stench and smog. The sun’s power needs only to be collected, stored, and used.” Carter was correct. Had we embarked on an enormous project of solar research then and there, we could have cut the costs of renewable energy far faster than we did. There was no single technological breakthrough that finally lowered the cost of solar power below that of fossil fuel in the past decade, just a long series of iterative improvements that could have come much faster had we worked with the vigor of, say, the Manhattan Project. Instead, Reagan immediately cut the budget for solar research by eighty-five per cent and did away with the tax credit for solar panels, decimating the infant industry. His national-security adviser, Richard Allen, told Reagan about a book denigrating solar energy, whose author had claimed that it was “little more than a continuation of the political wars of a decade ago by other means. . . . Where salvation was once to be gotten from the Revolution, now it will come from everyone’s best friend, that great and simplistic cure of all energy ills, the sun.” The culture war against clean energy had begun. And the solar panels on the White House came down. According to the Washington Post , the founder of the company that installed the panels said that Donald T. Regan, Reagan’s chief of staff, called them a “joke.” They rested for a while in a federal warehouse in Virginia, but most were eventually rescued by a small, environmentally minded school in rural Maine, Unity College, where for many years they supplied hot water to the cafeteria. That’s where I found them in 2010; the college handed over one of them, and with three Unity students and a professor I drove south to Washington, D.C., intending to give it to the Obama Administration. (It was also Unity that gave the panel to Ming; he accepted it on behalf of the Chinese people.) It was a splendid road trip: with the group 350.org (which I co-founded), we held rallies along the way, in Boston, New York, and Baltimore, and at each stop we used gallons of water to show that after three decades the panel still worked fine. Our hope was that, if President Barack Obama put it back on the roof, it would mark a symbolic closing of the circle, and would refire interest in the technology. But it turned out the Administration wasn’t interested—a trio of what the Times Green blog called “midlevel White House officials” met with our delegation in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, and refused to accept the gift. They wouldn’t really explain why, which left the students in tears and me with steam coming unproductively out of my ears. Looking back, though, it’s clear why Obama at that moment did not want much to do with anything so closely associated with Carter. Obama was a deep student of political history, and he knew far better than most how crucial that 1980 election had been; the country had chosen to head in a new direction, and that direction still held, though he was doing all he could to soften its edges and sand its corners. (In 2014, his Administration did, in fact, install solar panels on the White House.) Here’s how he put it a few years later, in perhaps the best summation of the past forty years of our political life: “Through Clinton and even through how I thought about these issueswhen I first came into office, I think there was a residualwillingness to accept the political constraints that we’d inheritedfrom the post-Reagan era—that you had to be careful about being toobold on some of these issues. And probably there was an embrace ofmarket solutions to a whole host of problems that wasn’t entirelyjustified.” Only recently, in the Biden Administration, has a President really tried to shrug off that embrace, and with some success. Joe Biden—who was the first senator to endorse Jimmy Carter in his 1976 run for the White House—tried to throw the weight of the federal government behind clean energy, seeking to get us back to work on that group project of building a working society and a working planet. He’s opened the plants and cut the ribbons that Jimmy Carter might have opened and cut in his second term. That we waited forty years means that our planet will be, at the very least, deeply damaged. But Biden’s effort was by far the greatest tribute anyone could pay to the thirty-ninth President. ♦ New Yorker Favorites The best performances of 2024. A professor claimed to be Native American. Did she know she wasn’t ? Kanye West bought an architectural treasure—then gave it a violent remix . Why so many people are going “ no contact ” with their parents. Ina Garten and the age of abundance . How a homegrown teen gang punctured the image of an upscale community . 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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Londynn Jones scored 15 points, making all five of her 3-pointers, and fifth-ranked UCLA stunned No. 1 South Carolina 77-62 on Sunday, ending the Gamecocks’ overall 43-game winning streak and their run of 33 consecutive road victories. The Gamecocks (5-1) lost for the first time since April 2023, when Caitlin Clark and Iowa beat them in the NCAA Tournament national semifinals. Te-Hina Paopao scored 18 points and Tessa Johnson scored 14 for the Gamecocks, whose road winning streak was third-longest in Division I history. It was the first time UCLA took down a No. 1 team in school history, having been 0-20 in such games. The program’s previous best wins were over a couple of No. 2s — Oregon in 2019 and Stanford in 2008. Elina Aarnisalo added 13 points as one of five Bruins in double figures. UCLA (5-0) dominated from start to finish, with the Bruins’ suffocating defense preventing the Gamecocks from making any sustained scoring runs. Takeaways South Carolina: The Gamecocks trailed by double-digits at halftime for the first time since Dec. 21, 2021, against Stanford, according to ESPN. Chloe Kitts, who averages a team-leading 14 points, finished the game with 2 points on 1 of 7 shooting. UCLA: The Bruins led 43-22 at halftime. Eight different players scored and contributed to 11-0 and 7-0 runs in the first and second quarters as they shot 52% from the field. Key moment The first quarter set the tone for a game in which the Gamecocks never led. They missed their first nine shots and were 4 of 18 from the floor in the quarter. UCLA ran off 11 straight points to take a 20-10 lead into the second quarter. Key stats The Bruins dominated the boards, 41-34, and held the Gamecocks well under their scoring average of 80.2 points. Up next South Carolina travels to Florida to meet Iowa State in the Fort Myers Tipoff on Thanksgiving. UCLA travels to the Rainbow Wahine Showdown in Hawaii to play UT Martin on Friday. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 all season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: and

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