Chelsea, led by the tactical genius Thomas Tuchel, have also been impressive this season, with their solid defensive structure and formidable attacking options making them a force to be reckoned with. Players like Romelu Lukaku, Mason Mount, and N'Golo Kante have been instrumental in Chelsea's success, and they will be looking to close the gap on Liverpool in the coming weeks.However, disturbing reports have surfaced indicating that the Police Chief may have overstepped his authority and violated human rights in the name of maintaining public order. There are allegations that excessive force was used against peaceful protesters, arbitrary arrests were made, and basic civil liberties were violated under the pretext of national security. These allegations have raised serious concerns about the conduct of law enforcement officials and their adherence to the principles of democracy and human rights.
Stifel Financial Corp. ( NYSE:SF – Get Free Report ) has been given a consensus rating of “Hold” by the seven ratings firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and two have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year target price among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $103.17. A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on the company. TD Cowen raised their target price on Stifel Financial from $100.00 to $105.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. StockNews.com lowered Stifel Financial from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, October 3rd. Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on Stifel Financial from $113.00 to $130.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 13th. JMP Securities lifted their price target on shares of Stifel Financial from $105.00 to $110.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 9th. Finally, Citigroup upped their price objective on shares of Stifel Financial from $90.00 to $102.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, September 27th. Read Our Latest Analysis on SF Insiders Place Their Bets Institutional Trading of Stifel Financial Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in SF. FMR LLC increased its stake in Stifel Financial by 18.8% during the third quarter. FMR LLC now owns 7,956,412 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $747,107,000 after acquiring an additional 1,256,595 shares during the last quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP increased its position in shares of Stifel Financial by 78.3% during the 3rd quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 1,958,709 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $183,923,000 after purchasing an additional 860,465 shares during the last quarter. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC raised its holdings in Stifel Financial by 929.9% in the 2nd quarter. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC now owns 296,574 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $24,957,000 after buying an additional 267,777 shares during the period. Icon Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Stifel Financial in the third quarter valued at about $12,290,000. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC purchased a new position in Stifel Financial during the second quarter worth about $7,415,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 82.01% of the company’s stock. Stifel Financial Stock Up 1.1 % Stifel Financial stock opened at $116.22 on Friday. Stifel Financial has a 52 week low of $60.17 and a 52 week high of $118.12. The firm has a market cap of $11.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 21.02 and a beta of 1.08. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $102.16 and its 200 day moving average price is $89.57. The company has a quick ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 0.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27. Stifel Financial ( NYSE:SF – Get Free Report ) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October 23rd. The financial services provider reported $1.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.60 by ($0.10). The firm had revenue of $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.20 billion. Stifel Financial had a net margin of 12.98% and a return on equity of 14.92%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 17.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.60 earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Stifel Financial will post 6.44 earnings per share for the current year. Stifel Financial Announces Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 16th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 2nd will be issued a $0.42 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 2nd. This represents a $1.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.45%. Stifel Financial’s payout ratio is currently 30.38%. About Stifel Financial ( Get Free Report Stifel Financial Corp., a financial services and bank holding company, provides retail and institutional wealth management, and investment banking services to individual investors, corporations, municipalities, and institutions in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and Other. Read More Receive News & Ratings for Stifel Financial Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Stifel Financial and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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Multibagger stock to buy now: Ventura Securities sees 110% upside in Adani Energy Solutions share priceMutual of America Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Parsons Co. ( NYSE:PSN – Free Report ) in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm acquired 25,250 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,618,000. Other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. V Square Quantitative Management LLC acquired a new stake in Parsons during the 3rd quarter valued at $33,000. Capital Performance Advisors LLP acquired a new stake in shares of Parsons during the third quarter valued at about $45,000. Tanglewood Legacy Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Parsons during the second quarter worth about $44,000. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale acquired a new position in shares of Parsons in the third quarter worth about $72,000. Finally, Blue Trust Inc. boosted its holdings in Parsons by 23.6% in the second quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 1,041 shares of the company’s stock valued at $86,000 after purchasing an additional 199 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.02% of the company’s stock. Analyst Ratings Changes PSN has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Truist Financial cut their target price on Parsons from $130.00 to $110.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. KeyCorp increased their price objective on shares of Parsons from $116.00 to $122.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 31st. Raymond James downgraded shares of Parsons from a “strong-buy” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $115.00 target price for the company. in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Robert W. Baird lifted their price target on Parsons from $103.00 to $125.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 31st. Finally, Benchmark upped their price objective on Parsons from $68.00 to $101.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 1st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Parsons currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $105.13. Parsons Trading Down 0.3 % Shares of NYSE PSN opened at $99.05 on Friday. Parsons Co. has a 12-month low of $61.10 and a 12-month high of $114.68. The company has a market cap of $10.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 150.06, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 0.80. The company has a current ratio of 1.55, a quick ratio of 1.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $104.86 and its 200 day simple moving average is $90.77. Parsons ( NYSE:PSN – Get Free Report ) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The company reported $0.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.73 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $1.81 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.63 billion. Parsons had a return on equity of 12.74% and a net margin of 1.21%. Equities research analysts expect that Parsons Co. will post 3.02 EPS for the current year. About Parsons ( Free Report ) Parsons Corporation provides integrated solutions and services in the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets in North America, the Middle East, and internationally. The company operates through Federal Solutions and Critical Infrastructure segments. The Federal Solutions segment provides critical technologies, such as cybersecurity; missile defense; intelligence; space launch and ground systems; space and weapon system resiliency; geospatial intelligence; signals intelligence; environmental remediation; border security, critical infrastructure protection; counter unmanned air systems; biometrics and bio surveillance solutions to U.S. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Parsons Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Parsons and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
UConn announced a two-year contract extension for head football coach Jim Mora on Saturday, just before the team took the field for the Fenway Bowl against North Carolina. Mora’s contract extension will run through 2028 and will pay him $10 million through the remaining four years, with the opportunity to earn more in incentives. The 63-year-old coach is set to make $1.7 million next season, $1.9 million in 2026 and $2.3 and $2.4 million in 2027 and 2028, respectively. UConn then went out and thrashed North Carolina, 27-14, in a game that wasn’t as close as the score indicated. “I am forever grateful. I’m grateful to (athletic director) David (Benedict) and (school president) Radenka (Maric) and the Board of Trustees, but this is about what the (UConn players) did today,” Mora said when asked about the extension in the postgame press conference. In a statement released by UConn ahead of the game, Mora said: “I’d like to thank David Benedict, Radenka Maric and the University of Connecticut leadership for their trust in me and their commitment to our football program. When I first got here, I talked about where we wanted this program to go and we have shown great progress but we still have plenty of work to do. The commitment and dedication from the university and the athletic department has me excited about the future for our football team.” “Three years ago, I tasked Jim Mora with the challenge of leading our football team back to success and through his experience, energy and leadership he has done just that,” UConn athletic director David Benedict said in a statement. “He has taken our program to post season bowl games twice and just guided our team to one of the best seasons in UConn football history, building a momentum to keep this program moving forward. I look forward to his leadership of our football team in the years ahead.” Mora is coming off one of the most successful seasons in UConn football history, having led the team to an 8-4 record and an appearance in the Fenway Bowl. It’s the Huskies’ second bowl appearance in three years. UConn’s eight wins is the most for the program since 2010, and the Huskies had their first winning season since that year, too. A win Saturday would give UConn nine wins for just the third time in program history, with the last two such seasons coming in 2003 and 2007. UConn quarterbacks coach Brad Robbins is heading to Tulsa as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, according to a report from CBS Sports. Robbins was part of a coaching staff that helped the offense produce its most prolific attack since the 2009 season and fifth-most in program history (32.3 points per game). Robbins worked at FCS Tennessee Tech and Division II North Greenville before joining Jim Mora’s staff in spring 2023. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Bangladesh publishers will likely give the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair a miss, with organising committee officials still awaiting a decision from the Ministry of External Affairs. “We have so far not received any directives from the Centre concerning Bangladesh’s participation in the upcoming book fair,” Tridib Chatterjee, President of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild, told The Hindu on Saturday. Also read: Stories of a Bangladesh in crisis | Review of Mashiul Alam’s ‘The Meat Market’, translated by Shabnam Nadiya “The decision and following steps will be taken by the Ministry of External Affairs. We realise there might be law and order risk during the fair, given the current geopolitical climate,” he added. According to Mr. Chatterjee, Bangladeshi publishers have participated in the annual book fair event in Kolkata for 28 years, since 1996. “This would be the first time they might be absent, barring the two years that the book fair was not held,” he added. This year, Germany has been selected as the theme country for the first time. Notably, in 2022, Bangladesh was given special focus in the International Kolkata Book Fair, on account of the 50th year of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Every year, 45-odd publishers from the neighbouring country sell books at the book fair. The Guild president is confident that the absence of publishers from Bangladesh next year will not have an economic impact on book fair sales. “Albeit their absence will leave behind a vacuum, but just like any other vacuum, there would be plenty of other options to fill in for them,” Mr. Chatterjee said. The International Kolkata Book Fair is an annual winter fair that witnesses a rendezvous of the city’s bibliophiles, writers, and booksellers. The 48th edition is slated to take place between January 28 and February 9, 2025, at Boimela Prangan in Salt Lake. These developments assume significance considering the close cultural ties between West Bengal and Bangladesh and the recent geopolitical upheaval in the neighbouring country following former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s departure. “These developments are extremely unfortunate. Irrespective of the political relationship between West Bengal and Bangladesh, our cultural relationship has sustained the test of time,” Pabitra Sarkar, a leading Bengali scholar and linguist, said. “The two regions share a great cultural legacy, we speak a common language and have had extensive intellectual exchange over the years.” He added that there has been a lot of speculation in cultural circles surrounding possible security hazards in inviting participants from Bangladesh to Kolkata’s cultural events. “I believe this will have an economic impact on the cultural consumption in West Bengal. The situation in Bangladesh continues to be volatile, so it is unclear what the future holds,” Dr. Sarkar said. Published - November 24, 2024 03:47 am IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Kolkata / West Bengal / books and literature
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Sanctuary Advisors LLC Trims Position in UDR, Inc. (NYSE:UDR)When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka in September, and his National People’s Power [NPP] alliance swept the general elections on November 14, most international news headlines stamped the winners as ‘Marxist’. The tag was hardly positive or even neutral with its connotations of wild-eyed radicalism. The insinuation was that Sri Lanka’s ongoing programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would derail, and economic stability and recovery would be disrupted. President Dissanayake, through his November 21 policy statement to the new Parliament, that he will take forward the IMF framework and the aligned debt treatment plans — finalised by his predecessor — tried to allay these fears. President Dissanayake, through his November 21 policy statement to the new Parliament, that the IMF framework and the aligned debt treatment plans with bilateral and private creditors — finalised by his predecessor — will go ahead, tried to allay these fears. So where does this ‘Marxist label’ on Sri Lanka’s new government come from? The NPP is an eclectic social coalition of some 21 groups, including political parties, youth and women’s organisations, trade unions and civil society networks. But one political party forms its political, if not ideological, core — the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP or People’s Liberation Front). In fact, it was JVP leader Mr. Dissanayake who created the NPP in 2019 to widen the party’s appeal beyond its traditional cadre base and boost its chances at the polls. His political enterprise, which has now secured a massive victory, has turned a new page in post-colonial Sri Lanka, where politics has been dominated by just two parties and their offshoots, and the five elite families controlling them. The JVP’s office in Battaramulla, a suburb about 10 km east of Colombo, is located close to parliament, although the party has rarely been close to power in the six decades of its existence. Three large black-and-white portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin adorn the white wall of the main meeting room. Party cadre, regardless of position or prominence, make and serve tea to their guests. Above the reception desk at the entrance is a photograph of the party’s founder and charismatic leader Rohana Wijeweera, an infallible icon for its cadre. His mane, cap, and beard suggest Che Guevara-inspired self-styling. Wijeweera began what became the JVP in 1965, exactly three decades after Ceylon’s left movement birthed the country’s oldest party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), consequent to serial fractures within the Left. The LSSP split during the Second World War, leading to the formation of a pro-Moscow Communist Party. The cracks within the CP in the 1960s, triggered by the Sino-Soviet dispute, and internal tensions over the parliamentary road to socialism would, in turn, lead to the formation of the JVP, as a revolutionary party with Marxist-Leninist orientation. ‘Five classes’ Attracted to Maoism in his student days in the Soviet Union, Wijeweera joined the Communist Party (Peking wing – CP) of Sri Lanka in 1964, and became a youth leader. He challenged the party’s leadership, on their interpretation of class politics and revolution, and was subsequently expelled in 1965. His independent faction morphed into the JVP. Wijeweera and his comrades held political lessons for rural Sinhala youth, called the “Five Classes” that analysed Sri Lanka’s social and political order; Indian hegemony; the reformist left and coalition politics; and the parliamentary road to socialism. As part of preparation to achieving their objective of seizing state power, they trained in the use of shotguns and put together explosive devices. The story of the JVP’s rise in the late 1960s and fall in the next two decades unravels in the backdrop of two major changes in Sri Lanka — President J.R. Jayewardene’s open economic reform in 1977 and the beginning of a full-blown civil war after the 1983, state-sponsored anti-Tamil pogrom that he falsely attributed to Left parties, including the JVP. The JVP’s first insurrection in 1971 came out of frustration that the left-wing Sirimavo Bandaranaike-led government was not doing enough to meet the aspirations of educated but unemployed young people, and in changing the social, economic and political order inherited from the British. The discourse was anti-imperialist and socialist. The insurgents attacked dozens of police stations, to capture weapons and ammunition. The second insurrection, from 1987 to 1989, roughly coincided with the party’s embrace of Sinhala-nationalism; its fierce opposition to Tamil self-determination; and to the signing of the India-brokered 1987 Accord aimed at ending the war, with boots-on-the-ground in the form of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). To Tamils in the far north of the island, the JVP appeared as Sinhala chauvinist instead of progressive, although the party never directly engaged in anti-Tamil violence. In both insurrections, where the JVP took up arms against the state, its representatives, supporters, and dissidents from the Left [in the second insurrection], the state’s counter-insurgency response was many times more lethal, resulting in the death and disappearance of tens of thousands of Sinhala youth. Wijeweera himself was executed while in state custody in 1989. Somawansa Amarasinghe, the only politburo member to survive the repression of the 1980s, escaped to India and subsequently to Europe. After a few years of underground existence, the surviving cadre resurrected the party, even as the country was increasingly preoccupied with massive human rights violations in the south and the raging war in the north-east. The JVP tentatively contested in the 1994 general election through another party, winning one seat. Within the next few years, the JVP warmed up to the political mainstream, winning more seats in parliament between 2000 and 2004, and four Cabinet-level ministerial portfolios in 2004–05, in a short-lived coalition with the Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga government. Two splits The new course of the JVP is defined by two consequential splits, linked to the party’s proximity to Mahinda Rajapaksa who began dominating the political scene from the early 2000s. They were also fuelled by internal differences on the dilution of leftism for “patriotism” (Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism), versus emphasis on Wijeweera’s socialist ideology and the party distancing itself from Mr. Rajapaksa and his pro-war stance. Since the breakdown of the 2001-03 ceasefire, the JVP unambiguously backed Mr. Rajapaksa’s hawkishness in delivering a political solution to the Tamil question, and the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), with scant regard to Tamil lives. The JVP’s differences with Rajapaksa were more to do with their unease over ‘family-rule’ and his socio-economic policies rather than his militaristic response. However, its parliamentary group leader and reactionary politician Wimal Weerawansa disagreed, and broke away with a quarter of its legislators, forming the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna or National Freedom Front in 2008, that until recently firmly planted itself in the Rajapaksa camp. Four years later a Marxist faction within the residual JVP also split from it, criticising the party’s unconditional support to the Rajapaksa regime on the handling of the war, and its complete surrender to electoral politics. This group led by Kumar Gunaratnam formed the Frontline Socialist Party in 2012, the chief critic of the JVP today, from the left. In 2014, Mr. Dissanayake was named leader of a party that had to stabilise itself, after shedding both its racist right-wing and its dissenting left-wing. The splits allowed the JVP to refashion itself, blurring its past profiles, and making a reputation for itself inside and outside parliament, as a bold critic of corruption and nepotism, and as an upholder of the rule of law and liberal democratic norms. The party, till date, is wary of clearly defining its position on the unresolved ethnic question. It also evades the language of class politics. In an interview to The Hindu in December 2023, Mr. Dissanayake said: “Labels have always given wrong perceptions. Left politics is not a bad thing, it is a good thing. Some people demonise this. That is why we say we are focussed more on working for the majority of our people, rather than on labels.” Published - November 24, 2024 04:00 am IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Sri Lanka / national elections / The Hindu Profiles / The Hindu Explains
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It was revealed that the referee had been involved in a series of illegal betting activities, placing bets on matches he was officiating in clear violation of the strict rules and regulations set forth by the Football Association. This blatant disregard for the integrity of the game has not only tarnished his own reputation but has also cast a shadow over the entire Premier League.
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