Stock up on these popular board games for your next get-togetherFortis Group Advisors LLC boosted its position in NVIDIA Co. ( NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report ) by 3.1% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 16,116 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 477 shares during the quarter. Fortis Group Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $1,957,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 1st quarter valued at about $27,000. Lowe Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter valued at about $25,000. DHJJ Financial Advisors Ltd. increased its stake in NVIDIA by 1,900.0% during the 2nd quarter. DHJJ Financial Advisors Ltd. now owns 200 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $25,000 after buying an additional 190 shares during the period. Christopher J. Hasenberg Inc acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, CGC Financial Services LLC acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter valued at about $26,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. Insider Activity In other news, CFO Colette Kress sold 66,670 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $116.59, for a total transaction of $7,773,055.30. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 4,954,214 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $577,611,810.26. This trade represents a 1.33 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website . Also, Director John Dabiri sold 716 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $142.00, for a total value of $101,672.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 19,942 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,831,764. This represents a 3.47 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last three months, insiders have sold 2,036,986 shares of company stock valued at $240,602,399. 4.23% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders. NVIDIA Stock Up 2.2 % NVIDIA ( NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.69 by $0.12. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 114.83% and a net margin of 55.69%. The company had revenue of $35.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $33.15 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.38 earnings per share. NVIDIA’s revenue was up 93.6% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Co. will post 2.76 earnings per share for the current year. NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a share buyback program on Wednesday, August 28th that authorizes the company to repurchase $50.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company’s board of directors believes its shares are undervalued. NVIDIA Announces Dividend The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 27th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be given a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.03%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 5th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 1.57%. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth Several equities analysts have commented on the stock. New Street Research raised shares of NVIDIA from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $120.00 target price on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, August 6th. Redburn Atlantic started coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, November 12th. They set a “buy” rating and a $178.00 target price on the stock. Evercore ISI lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $189.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 21st. Robert W. Baird lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $150.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 21st. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $165.00 to $185.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 21st. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-nine have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $164.15. Get Our Latest Analysis on NVIDIA About NVIDIA ( Free Report ) NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. 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BURLINGTON, Mass. and FRISCO, Texas , Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP ) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.23 per share, payable in U.S. dollars, on the Company's common stock. The regular quarterly dividend will be paid on January 17, 2025 to shareholders of record on January 3, 2025 . Investor Contacts: Investor Relations T: 888-340-5287 / [email protected] Media Contact: Katie Gilroy T: 781-418-3345 / [email protected] ABOUT KEURIG DR PEPPER Keurig Dr Pepper ( Nasdaq : KDP ) is a leading beverage company in North America , with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. With annual revenue of approximately $15 billion , we hold leadership positions in beverage categories including soft drinks, coffee, tea, water, juice and mixers, and have the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. and Canada . Our innovative partnership model builds emerging growth platforms in categories such as premium coffee, energy, sports hydration and ready-to-drink coffee. Our brands include Keurig ® , Dr Pepper ® , Canada Dry ® , Mott's ® , A&W ® , Snapple ® , Peñafiel ® , 7UP ® , Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ® , Clamato ® , Core Hydration ® and The Original Donut Shop ® . Driven by a purpose to Drink Well. Do Good., our 28,000 employees aim to enhance the experience of every beverage occasion and to make a positive impact for people, communities and the planet. For more information, visit www.keurigdrpepper.com and follow us on LinkedIn. SOURCE Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.
Independent MP-Elect for the Gomoa Central Kwame A Plus Independent MP-Elect for the Gomoa Central Constituency, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as Kwame A Plus, has expressed his happiness with the NDC’s decision to fight corruption in the country. In a post shared on social media, A Plus noted that the new John Dramani Mahama government is the perfect administration to tackle and recover all government resources stolen by government appointees. “There has never been a better time than now to tackle corruption and recover all loot,” he said. A Plus also shared his happiness with the support received from some key members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in this regard. “Even key members and some supporters of the outgoing government are willing to see some of their appointees investigated and held accountable for financial misconduct and theft. If witches dey, we for hunt dem!” he added. A Plus, a musician-turned-politician, contested the Gomoa Central Parliamentary seat in the Central Region as an independent candidate. He defeated the incumbent NPP MP, Nana Eyiah Quansah, by 2000 votes, polling 14,277 votes, compared to Quansah’s 11,637. Read the full post below: Watch Black Sherif, Adina, Sefa, others performance at Zaama Disco Concert: JHM/AEIt was supposed to be a rare victory after a wave of setbacks in Haiti’s war against gangs. The armored police vehicles, manned by Haitian and Kenyan police, rolled into the small farming town north of the Haitian capital to the sounds of residents cheering, dancing and waving tree branches in elation. After threats, kidnappings and a massacre in neighboring Pont-Sondé in October that left at least 70 dead, specialized Haiti National Police and Kenyan police with the Multinational Security Support mission had finally arrived in Petite-Rivière. For two years armed gangs had forcibly taken farmers’ lands and livestock and subjected residents to unimaginable cruelty after making the town their stronghold. But what should have been a moment of relief after police entered downtown Petite-Rivière on Saturday and reclaimed control of the area quickly ended in bloody violence: On one side, armed members of the Savien Gran Grief and Palmis gangs began attacking residents in reprisal. On the other, a so-called citizens’ defense group carried out its own attacks with machetes and knives on suspected gang members and sympathizers. The killing spree, which unfolded over three days, has left at least 150 dead, said Bertide Horace, a local community leader who shared graphic images and videos of the carnage: torched houses, streets and a river strewn with discarded bodies, many of them missing arms and legs. “I am in Ti-Rivière ... I couldn’t walk before. Now I am walking in the bush. I am not scared. They are all thieves,” a voice says on one of the videos that shows several corpses, arms hacked off, floating in a river. The slaughter in Petite-Rivière, a small farming community in central Haiti, overlapped with the killing of more than 100 elderly residents in the Wharf Jérémie neighborhood of the capital by a powerful gang leader who accused them of using witchcraft to kill his ailing 6-year-old son. The back-to-back massacres highlight the anarchy engulfing Haiti and the morbid fallout of a country’s descent into chaos: Haitians now fear being gunned down by warlords or being hacked to death by their own neighbors. “We’re in a non-declared civil war,” said Horace, the spokesperson with the Commission for Dialogue Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite. “The people are the collateral damage. They are the victims.” Horace said most of the killings were carried out by members of the citizens’ defense group, which took advantage of the police presence to take justice into its own hands. Between Sunday and Tuesday, she said, residents were dragged from their homes and off the streets and hacked to death with machetes and knives. The victims, Horace said, were accused of being accomplices of the Gran Grif and Palmis gangs, which joined forces to try to stop the arrival of police. No consideration was given by the vigilante group to people’s innocence or whether the victimts had been coerced by the gangs, she said. Among those killed: a longtime spaghetti vendor who sold meals in the community and a popular soccer player who, while being questioned by police, was somehow set on fire by members of the vigilante group to the horror of his family, which watched the scene on video. “His family has said he had nothing to do with the gangs,” Horace said. “There are people who had criminal ties to gangs but there are also people who were victims of personal vendettas.” The Haitian National Police, which initially declared victory after regaining control of the town’s police station, has not said how many people were killed in Petite-Rivière. Human rights groups in the capital say it’s difficult to pout a number on the death toll because of gangs’ control of the rural region. On Thursday, Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé said that the government is working on reinforcing security and providing the police and the army everything they need. He acknowledged that as Christmas approaches, gang members continue “to sow terror” and putting “tears in the eyes of mothers and fathers.” “There is no one on Earth and in the Haitian population who deserves to live in these conditions,” Fils-Aimé said during a rare news briefing where questions were not permitted. “The fight of the government is to guarantee the security of everyone.” He asked the public to “be vigilant” and help the security forces. “No one group can resolve this country’s problems. But I believe in my heart and all my soul that if we put our heads together, we will find the Haiti we want, the Haiti we know where people could walk when they want, take care of their business without fear.” Clarens Renois, a former journalist and head of the Union Nationale pour l’Intégrité et la Réconciliation party, said the country, which remains isolated with its main international airport closed because of gangs shooting at jetliners, is in “total anarchy.” “It is total disorder,” he said. “The government doesn’t control what is happening. All they can do is make declarations. they cannot take any action.” Romain Le Cour, a senior expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, a civil-society organization based in Switzerland, said the massacre in the Artibonite region and the killing of the elderly in Port-au-Prince “raise questions about the blurring lines between police and vigilante groups.” “It is alarming that, in recent months, the government and police have extolled the merits of what they describe as a mariage police-population — a marriage between the police and the people — and have called on the citizenry to support law enforcement,” LeCour said. “It is a chillingly dangerous dynamic, considering that many of today’s gangs started out as vigilante groups, and one that sends the message that the state and its police are not able to provide public security.” This year the number of vigilante units, which have replaced police security in dozens of neighborhoods of the capital, has skyrocketed. “With the development of vigilante brigades, in addition to the gangs’ increasing territorial fragmentation, Haiti is witnessing a situation where armed militia-type actors are multiplying and increasingly taking control of government functions,” Le Cour said. Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security in Washington, warned that “unrestrained brutality by the vigilante groups paradoxically strengthens the actors they are working against.” Gang violence has left at least 5,000 people dead this year, the United Nations said. Meanwhile, the massacre in Petite-Rivière has forced 10,000 people to flee, the U.N.’s. International Organization of Migration said Tuesday. More than 700,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. The escalating violence is yet another blow to the international effort to help Haiti get the gang crisis under control. Currently there are 416 foreign security personnel on the ground who are part of the Kenya-led multinational force. That mission is expected to be reinforced in the coming days, according to sources and reporting by Kenyan media. The new team of officers are among 617 Kenyan police who have been vetted and trained by the United States. A State Department spokesperson declined to discuss deployment plans, citing security concerns. The spokesperson also declined to go into details about funding for the mission, which even with U.S. support has run short of money and equipment. “If there is indeed a deployment of another contingent of Kenyan forces that would be excellent,” said Felbab-Brown, who follows Haiti and the mission’s involvement. “But beyond the deployment it is also crucial to think about how operations are designed and what the Kenya-led (mission) can actually do on the ground.” The situation that must be avoided is short-term deployment that leads to the gangs temporarily retreating but then returning in force after the security forces leave, she said. Such maneuvers, Felbab-Brown added, provoke gangs to counterattack in response and encourage citizens’ defense groups to move against the gangs, sparking cycles of retaliation with the public caught in the crossfire. “In the worst circumstances the so-called self defense groups, the vigilante groups, will start attacking anyone they believe, on the basis of whatever flimsy evidence, is associated with the gangs and they become as indiscriminate in the brutality as the gangs are,” she said. The Gran Grief gang is led by Luckson Élan, one of seven Haitians currently under U.N. sanctions. The joint police operation in Petite Rivière came after police last month took back a police station in Liancourt, where gangs had killed six police officers in January 2023. The Kenyan-led force said the decision to try to dismantle the Gran Grief gang by going into Petite-Rivière was inspired by the inroads it had made in recapturing the Liancourt station. Police launched their operation Saturday from neighboring Pont-Sondé, but lost the element of surprise when their imminent arrival played out on social media, with videos showing the armored motorcade. After the gangs failed to block the security forces’ arrival with containers and trenches, gang members armed with automatic weapons positioned themselves inside Petite-Rivière. But even before police arrived inside the city, violence started to break out. “The people started to feel confident and started attacking gang members with rocks,” Horace said. Two gang members were struck in the head. In retaliation, the gangs opened fire on residents, killing a local judicial official who was standing on the porch of his home. Another, the local justice of the peace, was kidnapped. When police finally made it in, the first of several gun battles between the cops and gang members began. After the gang retreated, the community celebrated. The joy, however, quickly turned to sorrow and fear. Over the following days, members of the local self-defense group, which had formed to protect the area from the gangs, began targeting unarmed civilians — women, merchants and anyone accused of having ties to gang members. Arms were chopped off, and people were fatally beaten. By the end of the day at least 25 people were executed, Horace said, “under the pretense that they had ties to gangs.” By Monday, another 50 residents were killed. The carnage continued on Tuesday, Horace said, as residents begging for a safe route out of the community locked themselves inside their homes. “Even though they closed themselves in, they were still killed,” said Horace, who in October 2022 was forced to flee after gangs killed 11 of her family members. Le Cour said there is no doubt Haiti needs a larger number of security forces. But the problems run deeper. “In recent months, public debate has focused on the need to beef up the capacity of the police and Multinational Security Support Mission with better equipment, such as drones and helicopters,” Le Cour said. “But the most sophisticated armory will not compensate for the lack of boots on the ground and serious deficits in police intelligence.” The arrival of Kenyan personnel is essential, he added, but the Artibonite incident underscored how lack of information and police presence left the public vulnerable to attacks both from gangs and vigilante groups. “Dialogue, coordination and trust must be reestablished between the Haitian authorities and foreign counterparts,” Le Cour added. “Without a strategy, boots on the ground will not be enough to reverse the balance of power.” ©2024 Miami Herald. Visit miamiherald.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Trump's tariff plans may 'derail' US inflation progress: Yellen
UK hails productive partnership with CBN, NFIU, EFCC in tracking illicit financial flowFederal authorities announced hackers in China have stolen "customer call records data" of an unknown number of Americans, but encrypted messaging could be the first line of defense for people in the U.S. to secure their communications amid this cyber threat. The " cyber espionage campaign " was announced by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in mid-November. The agencies identified that the China-affiliated hackers "compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies" to enable the theft of customer call records, according to FBI and CISA's release. In November, the agencies said the hackers compromised "a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity," the release reads. Last week, the agencies published a joint guide to better protect U.S. citizens from being compromised by the campaign. In the guide titled " Enhanced Visibility and Hardening Guidance for Communications Infrastructure , the agencies suggest end-to-end encryption as a solution. “The PRC-affiliated cyber activity poses a serious threat to critical infrastructure, government agencies, and businesses," Jeff Greene, CISA executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a Dec. 3 news release . “Along with our US and international partners, we urge software manufacturers to incorporate Secure by Design principles into their development lifecycle to strengthen the security posture of their customers." Holiday deals: Shop this season’s top products and sales curated by our editors. Here is how to switch to encrypted messaging and what applications offer this feature. What is end-to-end encryption? End-to-end encryption is a "security method that keeps your communications secure," according to Google. "With end-to-end encryption, no one, including Google and third parties, can read eligible messages as they travel between your phone and the phone you message," according to the tech company. What applications offer end-to-end encrypted messages? In addition to Google, several other applications offer encrypted features, including Signal and Meta-owned WhatsApp. "Signal is the easiest and works out of the box by default for everyone. WhatsApp is fine but collects more metadata,” Thorin Klosowski, a security and privacy activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Washington Post . Apple's iMessage is also end-to-end encrypted, according to the company. "There’s no way for Apple to decrypt the content of your conversations when they are in transit between devices," the company's message and privacy policy states . Other messengers such as Telegram, Session, Briar and Threema all offer end-to-end encrypted messaging. Facebook's Messenger app is also end-to-end encrypted, a feature that became default last year. How to switch to end-to-end encrypted messaging The best way to switch to end-to-end encrypted messaging is to begin using applications that support it, including WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal. Also, before users send messages, they have to know that if someone screenshots or shares what they said or sent, then encryption features won't help them. This includes sending direct messages on X, TikTok, or even Slack and Microsoft Teams. Some applications, like Signal, have the option of disappearing messages. This can wipe conversations or messages clear once they are opened. On Apple devices, users can set all messages to only be saved for a set amount of time, such as a month or a week. Multi-factor authentication can also be used for sensitive accounts rather than just using a password to log in. This acts as extra security for those accounts.Trump’s lawyers rebuff DA’s idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it ‘absurd’
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted lower Tuesday in the runup to the highlight of the week for the market, the latest update on inflation that’s coming on Wednesday. The S&P 500 dipped 0.3%, a day after pulling back from its latest all-time high . They’re the first back-to-back losses for the index in nearly a month, as momentum slows following a big rally that has it on track for one of its best years of the millennium . Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
