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Stocks wavered in afternoon trading, as losses for several Big Tech companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell 0.5 per cent, even though more stocks were rising than falling in the index. The Dow Jones fell 78 points, or 0.2 per cent. Both indexes set records on Tuesday. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.1 per cent. Wall Street’s tech giants retreated on Wednesday. Credit: AP The Australian sharemarket is set to inch up, with futures at 4.56am AEDT pointing to a rise of 14 points, or 0.1 per cent, at the open. The ASX added 0.6 per cent on Wednesday. Losses for tech heavyweights helped pull the broader market lower. Semiconductor giant Nvidia slipped 3.3 per cent. Its huge value gives it outsized influence on market indexes. Microsoft fell 1.1 per cent. Several personal computer makers added to Big Tech’s heavy weight on the market following their latest earnings reports. Loading HP sank 12.6 per cent after giving investors a weaker-than-expected earnings forecast for its current quarter. Dell slumped 12.1 per cent after its latest quarterly revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Gains for financial and health care companies helped counter Big Tech’s downward pull. The US economy expanded at a healthy 2.8 per cent annual pace from July through September, according to the Commerce Department, leaving its original estimate of third-quarter growth unchanged. The growth was driven by strong consumer spending and a surge in exports.
CANTON, Mass., Dec. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Destination XL Group, Inc, (NASDAQ: DXLG), the leading integrated - commerce specialty retailer of Big + Tall men's clothing and shoes, today confirmed that it has received a non-binding proposal from Fund 1 Investments, LLC to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the Company. The Board of Directors regularly reviews opportunities to create and enhance shareholder value and will carefully review and evaluate this proposal and other strategic alternatives together with its financial and legal advisors. Guggenheim Securities, LLC is acting as financial advisor and Greenberg Traurig, LLP is acting as legal advisor to the Company. About Destination XL Group, Inc. Destination XL Group, Inc. is the leading retailer of Men's Big + Tall apparel that provides the Big + Tall man the freedom to choose his own style. Subsidiaries of Destination XL Group, Inc. operate DXL Big + Tall retail and outlet stores and Casual Male XL retail and outlet stores throughout the United States, and an e-commerce website, DXL.COM, and mobile app, which offer a multi-channel solution similar to the DXL store experience with the most extensive selection of online products available anywhere for Big + Tall men. The Company is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts, and its common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "DXLG." For more information, please visit the Company's investor relations website: https://investor.dxl.com Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are often accompanied by words that convey projected future events or outcomes such as "expect,” "believe,” "estimate,” "plan,” "project,” "anticipate,” "intend,” "will,” "may,” "view,” "opportunity,” "potential,” or words of similar meaning or other statements concerning opinions or judgment of the Company or its management about future events, and include statements regarding the Company's evaluation of the non-binding proposal. Such forward-looking statements are based on various assumptions as of the time they are made, and are inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that its expectations with respect to forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions within the bounds of its existing knowledge of its business and operations, there can be no assurance that actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company will not differ materially from any projected future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual future results, performance or achievements may differ materially from historical results or those anticipated depending on a variety of factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. The Company encourages readers of forward-looking information concerning the Company to refer to its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 21, 2024, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that set forth certain risks and uncertainties that may have an impact on future results and the direction of the Company Investor Relations Contact: [email protected] (603) 933-0541 Public Relations Contact: Mike Reilly / Matt Sherman Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher [email protected] (212) 355-4449
WASHINGTON — The chair of the Democratic National Committee informed party leaders on Monday that the DNC will choose his successor in February, an election that will speak volumes about how the party wants to present itself during four more years of Donald Trump in the White House. Democratic Party chair Jaime Harrison speaks during a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at the Reno Event... Jaime Harrison, in a letter to members of the party's powerful Rules & Bylaws Committee, outlined the process of how the party will elect its new chair. Harrison, an Orangeburg native, said in the letter that the committee will host four candidate forums — some in person and some virtually — in January, with the final election on Feb. 1 during the party's winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. The race to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, while an insular party affair, will come days after Trump is inaugurated for a second term. Democrats' selection of a leader after Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 loss will be a key starting point as the party starts to move forward, including addressing any structural problems and determining how to oppose Trump. Local news has never been this personal. Free to download. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access. Members of the Rules & Bylaws Committee will meet on Dec. 12 to establish the rules for these elections, which beyond the chair position will include top party roles like vice chairs, treasurer, secretary and national finance chair. The committee will also use that meeting to decide the requirements for gaining access to the ballot for those top party roles. In 2021, candidates were required to submit a nominating statement that included signatures from 40 DNC members and that will likely be the same standard for the 2025 campaigns. "The DNC is committed to running a transparent, equitable, and impartial election for the next generation of leadership to guide the party forward," Harrison said in a statement. "Electing the Chair and DNC officers is one of the most important responsibilities of the DNC Membership, and our staff will run an inclusive and transparent process that gives members the opportunity to get to know the candidates as they prepare to cast their votes." Two Democrats have announced campaigns for chair: Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a vice chair of the national party, and Martin O'Malley, the former Maryland governor and current commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Other top Democrats are either considering a run to succeed Harrison or are being pushed by party insiders, including former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke; Michael Blake, a former vice chair of the party; Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin; Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and a former Chicago mayor; Sen. Mallory McMorrow, majority whip of the Michigan Senate, and Chuck Rocha, a longtime Democratic strategist. The next chair of the committee will be tasked with rebuilding a party demoralized by a second Trump victory. They will also oversee the party's 2028 nominating process, a complex and contentious exercise that will make the chair central to the next presidential election. Harrison, of South Carolina, made clear in his letter to the rules committee that the four forums hosted by the party would be live streamed and the party would give grassroots Democrats across the country the ability to engage with the process through those events. He also said he intends to remain neutral during the chair election. Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.
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NC MP, Oppn protest outside CM residence against reservation policyLakers predicted to cut ties with $17 million potential bust via trade to Jazz | Sporting NewsThe three Gardai - Irish police officers - walk down the rows of passengers on the bus, a few kilometres south of the border with Northern Ireland. Observing this is the head of the Garda National Immigration Bureau, Det Ch Supt Aidan Minnock. “If they don't have status to be in Ireland, we bring them to Dublin,” he explains. “They're removed on a ferry back to the UK on the same day.” Asylum applications in Ireland have risen by nearly 300% so far this year compared to the same period five years ago. A spike in arrivals from the UK has been driven by various factors, among these the UK’s tougher stance post-Brexit, including the fear of deportations to Rwanda, as well as Ireland’s relatively healthy economy. Most asylum seekers coming from the UK to the Republic of Ireland enter the country from Northern Ireland, as - unlike the airport or ferry routes - there is no passport control. The Garda checks along the 500km-long (310 miles) border are the only means of stopping illegal entry. Det Ch Supt Minnock told the BBC that 200 people had been returned to the UK this year as a result of these checkpoints, thought to be only a small fraction of those crossing the porous border illegally. More than 2,000 people who arrived in Ireland illegally have been issued deportation orders so far this year, a 156% increase on the same period in 2023. However, only 129 of those people (just over 6%) are confirmed to have since left the state. The government has said it will begin chartered deportation flights in the coming months, and free up more immigration Gardai from desk work. Onboard the coach near the border, the Gardai question a young man about where he lives. He is Algerian - a student, he says. The police are suspicious and he is taken to the detention vehicle while his identity is checked. A veteran of war crimes investigations in post-war Bosnia - as part of an EU police team - Det Ch Supt Minnock knows well the violence and poverty that drives migration. “This is growing at such a scale because of the conflict and instability right across the world,” he says. Public concern over immigration is closely linked to Ireland’s chronic housing problem. The Republic now has the worst record in the EU for housing young people. The CEO of the Irish Refugee Council, Nick Henderson, says the crisis is a “perfect storm”, created in part by the failure to build enough housing stock over decades, and a government unprepared for the upsurge in asylum seekers - known in Ireland as International Protection Applicants (IPAs) - needing help with accommodation. “[The government] is only able to provide accommodation through private contractors. That, coupled with an increase in the number of people seeking protection in Ireland, and against the background of a housing crisis has meant, in effect, that Ireland's asylum reception system has really collapsed.” In nearly three years, the number of asylum seekers accommodated by the state’s International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) has more than quadrupled - from 7,244 to 32,649 people. Over 100,000 Ukrainians, who were given a separate status, also sought refuge in Ireland during that time. Tens of thousands of international protection applicants - some already with asylum status in Ireland, others waiting to be processed - have been sent to communities around the country, accommodated in hotels, former schools, apartments, even large tented camps. Ireland’s housing shortage means that even those granted asylum are struggling to leave the temporary system as others arrive. Nearly 1,000 people are now living in tented accommodation. This makeshift response has generated resentment. In the village of Dundrum, County Tipperary - population 221 - a group of locals attempted to block the arrival of asylum seekers at the gates of a former hotel in August. The proposal to house up to 277 people at Dundrum House, which hasn’t operated as a hotel since 2015, would double the local population. Locals worry that it will be a permanent fixture. “How can our government not engage properly with us?” asks Andrea Crowe, a local teacher and protester who has frequently spoken in public. She cites concerns over housing, health and education provision for the community. Since July, there has been a 24-hour protest outside the hotel. Ms Crowe, whose family once owned the Dundrum House hotel, accuses the government of failing to consult with the community - a common complaint around the country. “How can we not be concerned?” she says. The IPAS community currently living at Dundrum House is made up of about 80 women and children. There is also a separate group of Ukrainian families, welcomed after the Russian invasion in February 2022. Several locals told us they feared that single men - who make up 35% of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland so far this year - would eventually replace the women and children, although there so far is no evidence to suggest this is planned in Dundrum. Local builder, Martin Barry, cites the housing crisis as a key reason for his protest, particularly the plight of his eldest son. “My own young fella, he can't afford a place to rent,” he says. But Martin Barry also speaks to deeper fears of change in some rural communities. The dance hall where he met his wife has closed. The local pub is for sale. There were hopes Dundrum House would be reopened and used by the local community. “It’s just the worry of what's coming down the line,” he says. We meet two South African women given refuge at Dundrum House. Both were sent from their accommodation in Dublin - 180km (110 miles) away - to make way for newer arrivals into the capital, some of whom were sleeping in tents on the streets. The women ask to remain anonymous. “Lerato” had been in Dublin for a year. “I had integrated with society, and made friends. My child was attending school and I was comfortable.” Her friend “Kayla” speaks of being isolated in Dundrum, a farming community with limited transport amenities. Far-right parties show scant support in opinion polls. Immigration worries are likely to be expressed in support for independent candidates. But online, far-right agitators stoke fear. There have been violent riots and arson attacks on sites meant to house, or rumoured to house, asylum seekers, and refugees have been attacked in their tents on Dublin’s streets. A common conspiracy theory is that migrants are being “planted” in Ireland as part of a plot to dominate Irish people and destroy their culture. We saw two posters referring to a “plantation” at the Dundrum House protest. The now-closed online GoFundMe Page for Dundrum referred to Ireland’s “indigenous” population fighting “for our very existence” and the government “flooding communities with asylum seekers”. The page - which raised more than €3,000 (£2,500) - was set up by a local businessman. He turns out to have posted antisemitic, Islamophobic and anti-vaccine conspiracist material on social media. We ask Andrea Crowe, one of the prominent voices of the Dundrum protest, if she is comfortable with such a person being involved? Ms Crowe says she does not “follow social media much” and it is not up to her to manage other people’s reactions. But she says she’s “not comfortable with it”. Others in County Tipperary welcome asylum seekers. Some 17 groups came together under the slogan “Tipperary Welcomes” after the Dundrum protest began. John Browne, a member of the community council, says the issue divides people. “I don’t have a problem with it because we're relatively wealthy, and the situation is pretty bad in parts of Africa and where most of these people are coming from.” But he disagrees strongly with the numbers involved in small places like Dundrum. “It imbalances the community. And it's no good for the people coming in, because there's nothing here for them.” We caught up with Ireland’s Minister for Integration, Roderic O’Gorman, while he was campaigning in Dublin for the General Election, due to be held on 29 November. He now canvasses votes with two police guards after being assaulted by a man protesting against immigration. Mr O’Connor says many areas welcome asylum seekers. “There are communities all over the place who are actually embracing and supporting,” he says. But he accepts some failures. “I recognise in the initial parts of our response, there were times where there wasn't that level of engagement that we need,” he says. There are now Community Engagement Teams responsible for liaising with residents, although the protesters we spoke to in Dundrum say they have had only one meeting with a team and are still no wiser about the long-term plans for the hotel. Official policy is hardening. Ukrainian asylum seekers who arrived amid widespread public sympathy and were given special benefits, recently saw these slashed from €232 (£190) to €38.80 (£32) per week - a cut of 83%. South Africans now need visas to enter the country. A visa loophole which allowed Jordanians - at one point the largest group of asylum seekers in Ireland - to enter from the UK has been closed. Concern over immigration has so far not translated into electoral support for far-right parties. Nick Henderson at the Refugee Council believes this need not be inevitable in Ireland. “Communities want to welcome people, but they need resources. They need communication.” The Republic’s image as a stable and progressive democracy won’t change in this electoral cycle. But the rise in far-right populism internationally is a warning for the future – of how concern over immigration can be made a focus for other discontents and create turbulent politics.
THEIR RIVALS couldn’t help but slip up as Storm Bert’s icy conditions took their toll. , though, made sure there was chance of that happening at Tynecastle. Aberdeen’s unbeaten came to an end after a delayed kick-off in . let more points go as they were held at to United. The Hoops needed to they had enough grit in the freezing conditions not to follow suit. They were slow to find their feet at first as Neil Critchley’s Jambos took the game to them. Read More in Football But they hit their stride when put them ahead in the 55th minute. Top scorer Nicolas Kuhn’s stunner five minutes later was as cool as the conditions. Sub added a third with virtually his first touch then scored an time penalty with Musa Darmmeh pulling one back for the Jambos in between. And it means they’re now three points clear of the Dons and ELEVEN ahead of . Celtic legend Scott Brown splashes out £2million on luxury pad with pool Rangers boss Philippe Clement admits he has 'no credit left in the bank' SPFL club call out league bosses on 'preparation time' as Storm Bert delays game Fourth Prem clash DELAYED but this one's nothing to do with Storm Bert Rodgers made two changes to the wide that beat in their last outing. came in for and Kyogo Furuhashi replaced Adam Idah. Critchley benched Kenneth Vargas with coming into the side. had been the last side to beat Celtic in a domestic fixture, . Since then Rodgers’ had gone 26 games unbeaten in the league and cups. That record, though, looked like it might be under a threat inside a minute at Tynecastle. and Blair Spittal combined with the former playing the latter in. But Spittal had more time than he thought and his rushed shot was saved by . The keeper was in action again soon after as he stopped James Penrice’s low attempt. The Hoops first chance came in the 6th minute, finding Daezen Maeda. Like Spittal he had more time than he suspected and his header flew over Craig Gordon’s bar. Good play from Daniel Oyegoke then saw him hit the byline but there no takers in the box. The Verdict by ROBERT MARTIN CAMERON CARTER-VICKERS helped give Celtic the base for his big win with a towering first half performance at Tynecastle. The defender used all his experience to snuff out Lawrence Shankland’s threat and made a hugely important block to keep out Alan Forrest’s shot just before the break. That allowed his side to come back out and win the game with Nicolas Kuhn and Kyogo Furuhashi and Adam Idah stepping up to finish the Jambos. STEVEN McLEAN could have booked Daizen Maeda long before he actually did show him a yellow card, the forward having had a number of goes at Cammy Devlin before going in the book, a point the frustrated Aussie tried to make to the whistler. James Penrice was also rightly cautioned for a foul on Kuhn, but compared to some Hearts-Celtic clashes of recent times this one passed off with little in the way of controversy. BRENDAN RODGERS will love the way his side took advantage of their rivals slip-ups to move clear at the top of the table at a venue that has proved difficult for them at times in the recent past. Neil Critchley will love the way his side got the better of the Hoops at times in the first half, but his side’s failure to score when they are on top is a recurring theme and why they remain 11th in the table right now. But Penrice kept the alive and pulled the ball back for Shankland, who fired wide. Penrice picked out Shankland once more in the 21st minute, this time with a floated cross. The had to generate power in his header and Schmeichel made a comfortable save. Forrest’s ball then looked to pick out Shankland in the box but Carter-Vickers snuffed out the . The defender made a superb block to keep out Forrest after good play between Spittal and Penrice. It meant the Jambos trooped off at half-time a little disappointed not to be ahead. But it was a very different story after the break as Celtic took complete control of the game. Kuhn’s ball picked out Kyogo, who turned and drilled in a first time effort at goal. But keeper Gordon stuck out a strong arm to beat the shot away and keep his side on terms. Maeda was lucky to escape a yellow for a foul on Cammy Devlin, a point the Aussie was quick to make. And then the Hoops got another lucky break soon after when they went ahead in the 55th minute. Oyegoke initially cut out a through ball on the edge of his box and tried to clear upfield. But his attempted pass came back off McGregor - and straight into the path of Kyogo six yards from goal. Gordon was alert to the danger and kept out the striker’s first effort from close range. But the Japanese reacted quickly to turn the rebound home and put his side in front. If the lead up to the goal had been fortunate the forward play was superb. And there was NOTHING lucky about Celtic’s second when it came just before the hour. Kuhn broke at pace and played a one-two with Maeda as maroon shirts toiled to get back. And Gordon had no chance as the German fired into the roof of his net from ten yards out. Critchley threw on Kenneth Vargas to a smattering of boos from the home support. The forward had then claimed his words had been misinterpreted. Sub Tony Ralston turned Oyegoke’s cross onto the junction of his bar and as he looked to clear. And Schmeichel blocked a shot from Devlin after Austin Trusty gave the ball away inside his own box. Rodgers sent on Idah for Kyogo in the 77th minute as he looked to save some legs ahead of . And Idah responded by putting them further ahead with virtually his first touch. Good pressing by green and white shirts led to fellow sub playing Idah in. Man bys How they rated by ROBERT MARTIN Craig Gordon 8, Daniel Oyegoke 7, Frankie Kent 6, Kye Rowles 6, James Penrice 7, Cammy Devlin 7 (Yan Dhanda 80, 2), Beni Baningime 6, Malachi Boateng 6 (Jorge Grant 67, 3), Blair Spittal 6 (Musa Drammeh 80, 3), Alan Forrest 6 (Kennth Vargas 67, 2), Lawrence Shankland 6. Kasper Schmeichel 7, Alastair Johnston 6 (Anthony Ralston 70, 3), Cameron Carter-Vickers 8, Austin Trusty 8, Greg Taylor 6, Reo Hatate 7, Callum McGregor 7, Arne Engels 6 (Paulo Bernardo 66, 3), Daizen Maeda 6 (James Forrest 67, 3), Nicolas Kuhn 7 (Yang Hyun-jun 75, 2), Kyogo Furuhashi 7 (Adam Idah 75, 4). And although Gordon got something on it the veteran was unable to keep the effort out. pulled one back in the 82nd minute through sub Musa Drammeh. The signing lashed a shot past Schmeichel having also just come onto the . But an injury to assistant Graeme Stewart led to a delay and killed any momentum. Gordon made a stunning double stop to keep out Yang and Idah as the Hoops saw it out. Read more on the Scottish Sun But Jorge Grant’s careless challenge on Forrest then led to an injury time spot kick. And Idah fired low to Gordon’s right to completely a hugely satisfying on the road.These holiday gifts change the game when building fires, printing photos, watching birds and more
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