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How Maharashtra election results may affect stock markets on MondayUCF will attempt to shake off a dreadful offensive performance when it collides with LSU on Sunday afternoon in the third-place game of the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The Knights (4-1) couldn't get anything going against No. 19 Wisconsin on Friday, going 21-for-62 from the field (33.9 percent) and just 2-for-17 from 3-point range (11.8 percent) en route to an 86-70 loss. Jordan Ivy-Curry finished with 13 points while Keyshawn Hall and Dior Johnson added 11 apiece for UCF, which never led and fell behind by as many as 23. Knights coach Johnny Dawkins is hoping that his team's struggles don't carry over into the meeting with the Tigers (4-1). "We have to do better offensively," Dawkins said. "We have to space the floor better. We have to balance our offense between our perimeter and our bigs. Those are things that we didn't do consistently (on Friday)." LSU also needs to clean things up after committing 15 turnovers in a 74-63 setback against Pitt on Friday. Tigers forward Jalen Reed doesn't believe giving the ball away will be a lingering issue. "I feel like a lot of our turnovers were more on us than them," Reed said. "I feel like a lot of the turnovers were careless, but we're a better team than that and I feel like we'll take care of the ball better moving forward." Reed and Vyctorius Miller each posted 14 points in the loss to the Panthers, with Reed also hauling in seven rebounds. Cam Carter chipped in 11 points. Carter is putting up a team-leading 16.4 points per game. Jordan Sears (12.0 points per game), Reed (11.0) and Miller (10.2) also have scoring averages in double figures. Ivy-Curry (16.8 points per game), Hall (16.2) and Darius Johnson (13.0) have been leading the way for UCF. Sunday marks the first-ever meeting between the Knights and Tigers. --Field Level Media

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. grew its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. ( NASDAQ:SNPS – Free Report ) by 6.4% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 24,715 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,494 shares during the quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $12,515,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several other large investors have also modified their holdings of SNPS. ORG Partners LLC grew its holdings in Synopsys by 600.0% in the second quarter. ORG Partners LLC now owns 42 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 36 shares during the period. Pacifica Partners Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys during the 3rd quarter valued at $25,000. Tsfg LLC increased its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 75.0% during the 3rd quarter. Tsfg LLC now owns 56 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 24 shares during the last quarter. Chris Bulman Inc purchased a new position in shares of Synopsys in the 2nd quarter worth $30,000. Finally, Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. boosted its holdings in Synopsys by 40.0% in the third quarter. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. now owns 70 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $35,000 after acquiring an additional 20 shares during the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth Several brokerages have commented on SNPS. Berenberg Bank assumed coverage on Synopsys in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. They set a “buy” rating and a $660.00 price target for the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on shares of Synopsys from $655.00 to $685.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, August 22nd. Piper Sandler decreased their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $687.00 to $670.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, October 24th. Wells Fargo & Company began coverage on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Friday. They issued an “equal weight” rating and a $570.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $640.00 price target on shares of Synopsys in a report on Tuesday, October 22nd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and eleven have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Synopsys currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $644.36. Synopsys Price Performance Shares of Synopsys stock opened at $565.07 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1-year low of $457.52 and a 1-year high of $629.38. The business has a 50-day moving average of $520.78 and a 200-day moving average of $545.69. The company has a market capitalization of $86.80 billion, a PE ratio of 58.62, a P/E/G ratio of 3.26 and a beta of 1.08. Synopsys ( NASDAQ:SNPS – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 21st. The semiconductor company reported $3.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.28 by $0.15. The company had revenue of $1.53 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.52 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 22.09% and a net margin of 24.06%. Synopsys’s revenue for the quarter was up 12.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $2.17 EPS. On average, equities analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 9.45 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Synopsys Profile ( Free Report ) Synopsys, Inc provides electronic design automation software products used to design and test integrated circuits. It operates in three segments: Design Automation, Design IP, and Software Integrity. The company offers Digital and Custom IC Design solution that provides digital design implementation solutions; Verification solution that offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug solutions; and FPGA design products that are programmed to perform specific functions. Read More Want to see what other hedge funds are holding SNPS? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Synopsys, Inc. ( NASDAQ:SNPS – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Synopsys Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Synopsys and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Fury as hated London mayor Sadiq Khan ‘will be rewarded for failure’ if he gets rumoured knighthood

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry threw internal divisions in his political movement into public display. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make America Great Again base who championed his hard-line immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who aligned themselves with Trump did so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer’s comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks, whom Trump tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar.” Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government, weighed in, defending the tech industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump’s world and what his political movement stands for. Trump had not yet weighed in on the rift. His presidential transition team did not respond to questions about positions on visas for highly skilled workers or the debate between his supporters online. Instead, his team instead sent a link to a post on X by longtime adviser and immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller that was a transcript of a speech Trump gave in 2020 at Mount Rushmore in which he praised figures and moments from American history. Musk, the world’s richest man who has grown close to the president-elect, was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump’s movement but his stance on the tech industry’s hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. Critics say they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent,” he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump’s own positions over the years reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he also sought curbs on legal immigration, including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump’s businesses, however, hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club, and his social media company behind his Truth Social app used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country” and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. However, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country,” he told the “All-In” podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump’s budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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Guwahati: A silent sit-in protest was staged today at Keishampat in Imphal West, organised by Taragi Cheisu, a group comprising senior citizens and several other organisations. The protest was held to condemn the brutal killing of innocent children and a woman from the Jiribam district. Retired Police Officer Thanjam Brojen On The Protest Retired police officer Thangjam Brojen, speaking at the protest, emphasised that merely deploying more companies of central forces would not address the ongoing issues. He highlighted that the effectiveness of the forces would depend on their strategic utilisation. Students of College of Agriculture, Iroisemba, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, held a sit-in protest today in the College campus. Around 450 students participated in the demonstration, condemning the brutal killing of three children and three women at Jiribam, Manipur. pic.twitter.com/Ag5lveM47a Brojen expressed concern over the shrinking moral and ethical space and the disappearance of legitimate state institutions. He appealed to those in authority to reassert state control and contain the violence as soon as possible. On Deployment Of Additional Central Forces In response to media queries about the deployment of additional central forces, Brojen questioned the absence of a clear strategic plan for their use. He noted the lack of coherent strategies to contain the violence. Commenting on the reimposition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in six identified police stations, Brojen pointed out that AFSPA was already in effect in various parts of the state, yet the ongoing crisis remained unresolved. He suggested that with proper policies and programmes, the conflict could be addressed without reimposing AFSPA. Manipur Govt Extends Suspension Of Mobile Internet Services Meanwhile, the Manipur government on Saturday extended the suspension of mobile internet services for two days in several districts of the state, according to an order. Amid escalating violence, the administration suspended the services on November 16 for two days to prevent anti-social elements from spreading content that might create law and order problems. It has been extended several times since then. “The state government after reviewing the prevailing law and order situation has decided to continue the suspension of mobile internet services in Imphal West, Imphal East, Kakching, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur and Kangpokpi for another two days in public interests," the order issued by the home department said. Internet services were suspended on November 16 after violence broke out in the state following the recovery of bodies of three women and three children. The Manipur government had lifted the suspension on broadband services on November 19, considering the hardships faced by common people, healthcare facilities, educational institutions and other offices. Further, in an effort to bolster security across Manipur, authorities have announced the deployment of 90 additional security forces, supplementing the earlier presence of 198 companies in the state. A significant portion of these reinforcements has already reached Imphal and is being strategically deployed to safeguard citizens, vulnerable areas, and critical infrastructure. The decision was made during a high-level security review meeting held today, attended by representatives from the Army, Assam Rifles, BSF, CRPF, local police, and DGP. The meeting assessed the security situation in Imphal and all districts, identifying key areas of concern and developing a robust strategy for addressing them. With the arrival of additional companies, security forces are being redistributed to cover high-risk zones and sensitive points across the state. 2 People Arrested For Being Involved In Vandalism On the other hand, two more persons were arrested in Manipur for allegedly being involved in vandalism and arson at the residences of legislators in Imphal Valley on November 16, police said on Saturday. With these arrests, the number of people apprehended for arson at the residences of MLAs reached 34. Police also said that they are examining inputs and looking for additional suspects in various localities of Imphal Valley for arson incidents on November 16. An investigation into the incidents of vandalism and arson at the residences of legislators is underway, the officer said.