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Natixis Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Ambev S.A. ( NYSE:ABEV – Free Report ) by 72.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 1,624,633 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 684,439 shares during the period. Natixis Advisors LLC’s holdings in Ambev were worth $3,964,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. HTLF Bank purchased a new position in Ambev in the third quarter worth about $26,000. Wealthstream Advisors Inc. purchased a new stake in Ambev during the third quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Riversedge Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Ambev in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Foster Group Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Ambev in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $33,000. Finally, BSW Wealth Partners bought a new position in shares of Ambev during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $33,000. 8.13% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. Ambev Stock Performance Shares of ABEV opened at $2.19 on Friday. Ambev S.A. has a 12 month low of $2.01 and a 12 month high of $3.00. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $2.29 and a 200-day moving average price of $2.24. The company has a current ratio of 1.20, a quick ratio of 0.89 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.02. The firm has a market cap of $34.50 billion, a PE ratio of 12.17, a P/E/G ratio of 6.69 and a beta of 1.06. Analysts Set New Price Targets Read Our Latest Research Report on ABEV Ambev Profile ( Free Report ) Ambev SA, through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, draft beer, carbonated soft drinks, malt and food, other alcoholic beverages, and non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products in Brazil, Central America and Caribbean, Latin America South, and Canada. It offers beer primarily under the Skol, Brahma, Antarctica, Brahva, Budweiser, Bud Light, Beck, Leffe, Hoegaarden, Balboa ICE, Balboa, Atlas Golden Light, Atlas, Bucanero, Cristal, Mayabe, Presidente, Presidente Light, Brahma Light, Bohemia, The One, Corona, Modelo Especial, Stella Artois, Quilmes Clásica, Paceña, Taquiña, Huari, Becker, Cusqueña, Michelob Ultra, Busch, Pilsen, Ouro Fino, Bud 66, Banks, Deputy, Patricia, Labatt Blue, Alexander Keith’s, and Kokanee brands. Read More Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ABEV? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Ambev S.A. ( NYSE:ABEV – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Ambev Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Ambev and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Askew scores 28 as Long Beach State beats Hawaii 76-68
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House Passes Massive Defense Bill That Includes Wage Increase For Troops, Gender-Affirming Care Ban For Military ChildrenWhat to know about a Wisconsin man who faked his own death and fled to Eastern EuropeWhenever I pull a prank, which generally involves my grandchildren, whose maturity level is way above mine, I think outside the box. Whenever I pull a prank, which generally involves my grandchildren, whose maturity level is way above mine, I think outside the box. This is a wise strategy because I can’t fit inside the box. And even if I could, the air supply to my brain would be cut off and I’d be even more immature, which admittedly would make me a better prankster. Still, I proved to be a pretty good one when I pulled a birthday prank on my wife, Sue, with a box I didn’t have to think outside of. That’s because I got inspiration from the best prankster I have ever known: my longtime buddy Tim Lovelette. Sue, Tim and I were members of the notorious class of 1975 at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, where our shenanigans were even crazier than those in the 1978 frat-house comedy “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Maybe we should sue for theft of intellectual property. Anyway, while Sue was an innocent bystander and I engaged in silly but mostly harmless pursuits that seldom involved actual schoolwork, Tim set the standard because his pranks not only were pulled on a daily basis, but sometimes involved live snakes. When Sue and I recently met up with Tim and his wife, Jane, whom we hadn’t seen in a long time, Tim excitedly told me about Prank-O, a company specializing in gift boxes for products that don’t exist. That’s why, like my head, the boxes are empty. “It’s American ingenuity at its finest,” Tim assured me. “You have to look into this.” I called Prank-O, which is headquartered in Minnesota, though not in a big-box store, and spoke with head honcho Ryan Walther. “I thought I had it made because I’m paid to write stuff that has no redeeming social value,” I told him. “But you pull pranks for a living. It sounds like a dream job.” “That’s why I do what I do,” said Ryan, who was one of the original partners in The Onion, the satirical news outlet that lives up to its name by making readers cry with laughter. “It has served me well in life.” His life as a prankster began as a kid, when he discovered the brilliance of the Pet Rock, a collectible toy made in 1975 by advertising executive Gary Dahl, who put small rocks inside cardboard boxes with air holes (for breathing, of course) and sold more than a million of them. “That guy was one of my heroes,” said Ryan, who went on to co-found Prank-O in 2009, when he and his business partner, Arik Nordby, fulfilled their dream of injecting laughter into the solemn ritual of gift-giving. Now 50, with a wife and four kids who are “bewildered” at what he does and parents who are “proud that their son is an empty-box baron,” Ryan has grown up (sort of) to run a company (pranko.com) whose amazing products include the Squirrel Hot Tub, the Noggin Net and the Dream Griddle. There’s also Roto Wipe (“Say goodbye to costly toilet-paper costs!”) and the Pasta Recycler (“Make used pasta almost like new again!”). “These products don’t actually exist?” I asked. “That’s right. We sell empty boxes for $8.99 each,” said Ryan, who went on “Shark Tank” in 2018 and got businessman and show judge Mark Cuban to offer $640,000 for a share in the company, although the deal fell through. “But you did prank him,” I pointed out. “Yes. The world needs laughter and we’re here to help,” said Ryan, adding that gift-givers can put real gifts in the empty boxes. One of his favorites is the Pasta Recycler, which I got for Sue as a birthday present. “What’s this?” she wondered after she unwrapped the box, which I filled with uncooked spaghetti because her real gift, a raincoat (isn’t it romantic?), wouldn’t fit. “My gift to you,” I cooed. “Happy birthday!” “Is this a prank?” Sue asked. “Yes!” I answered proudly. “Here’s another one,” she said. “We’re having pasta for dinner. And you can make it.” Jerry Zezima writes a humor column for Tribune News Service and is the author of seven books. His latest is “The Good Humor Man: Tales of Life, Laughter and, for Dessert, Ice Cream.” Reach him at [email protected] or via jerryzezima.blogspot.com .
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Getting enterprise data into large language models (LLMs) is a critical task for enabling the success of enterprise AI deployments. That’s where retrieval augmented generation (RAG) fits in, which is an area where many vendors have offered various solutions. Today at AWS re:invent 2024 the company announced a series of new services and updates designed to help make it easier for enterprises to get both structured and unstructured data into RAG pipelines. Making structured data accessible for RAG requires more than just looking up a single row in a table. It involves translating natural language queries into complex SQL queries to filter, join tables and aggregate data.The challenges are further compounded for unstructured data, where by definition there is no structure for the data. To help solve those challenges AWS announced new services for structured data retrieval support, ETL (extract, transform and load) for unstructured data, data automation and knowledge base support. “Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a very popular technique for customizing your data, but one of the challenges with retrieval augmented generation is it’s historically been mostly for text data,” Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data at AWS, told VentureBeat. ” And if you see enterprises, most of the data, especially operational, is sitting in data lakes and data warehouses, and that has never been ready for RAG, per se.” Improving structured data retrieval support with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases Why isn’t structured data ready for RAG? Sivasubramanian provided a few scenarios. “To build a highly accurate, secure system, you’ve got to actually understand the schema, build a custom schema embedding, and then actually understand the historical query log, and then keep up with the changes and schemas,” Sivasubramanian said. During his keynote at re:invent Sivasubramanian explained that the Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases service is a fully managed RAG capability that enables enterprises to customize responses with contextual and relevant data. “It automates the complete RAG workflow, removing the need for you to write custom code to integrate your data sources and manage queries,” he said. With structured data retrieval support in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Sivasubramanian said that AWS is providing a fully managed RAG solution. It enables enterprises to natively query all their structured data to generate results for generative AI applications. Knowledge Bases will automatically generate and execute the SQL queries to retrieve enterprise data and then enrich the model’s responses. “The cool thing is, it also adjusts to your schema and data, and it learns from your query patterns and provides the customization options for enhanced accuracy,” he said. “Now with the ability to easily access structured data for your RAG, you will generate more powerful and intelligent gen AI applications in the enterprise.” GraphRAG: Bringing it all together in a knowledge graph Another key enterprise AI challenge that AWS is looking to solve for RAG is helping to improve accuracy, with more data sources. That’s the challenge that the new GraphRAG capability aims to solve. “One of the big challenges in enterprises is to piece apart distinct pieces of data and show how they are connected so that you can build explainable RAG systems,” Sivasubramanian said. “This is where knowledge graphs are super important.” Sivasubramanian explained that knowledge graphs create relationships across multiple data sources by connecting different pieces of information. “When these relationships are converted into graph embeddings for your gen AI applications, the system can easily traverse this graph and retrieve these connections to gather a holistic view of your customer data,” he said. The new GraphRAG capabilities in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases automatically generate graphs using the Amazon Neptune graph database service. Sivasubramanian noted that itlinks the relationship between various data sources, creating more comprehensive Gen AI applications without the need for any graph expertise. Tackling the challenges of unstructured data with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Another critical enterprise data challenge is the issue of unstructured data. It’s an issue that many vendors are trying to solve, including startups like Anomalo . When data, be it a pdf, audio or video file needs to be indexed for RAG use cases, having some kind of understanding of what’s in the data is crucial to making the data useful. “Unfortunately, unstructured data is difficult to extract and it needs to be processed and transformed to make it ready,” Sivasubramanian said. The new Amazon Bedrock Data Automation technology is AWS’ answer to that challenge. Sivasubramanian explained that the feature will automatically transform unstructured multi model content into structured data to power gen AI applications, “I like to think of this as a gen AI powered ETL [Extract,Transform and Load] for unstructured data,” he said. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation will automatically extract, transform and process an enterprise’s multimodal content at scale. He noted that with a single API, an enterprise can generate custom outputs, aligned to data schemas and parse multimodal content for genAI applications. “With these updates, we are empowering you to harness all of your data to build contextually more relevant gen AI applications,” he said. Stay in the know! Get the latest news in your inbox daily By subscribing, you agree to VentureBeat's Terms of Service. Thanks for subscribing. Check out more VB newsletters here . An error occured.
Nederland Middle/Senior’s parent-teacher association is trying crowdfunding this year to help the small school restore library services for its students. Along with money for the school library, the fundraiser could help cover the cost of scholarships for students to travel to competitions, for teacher grants for projects and for school events that include Homecoming, Harvest Feast and a Valentine’s Day ice cream social. “The library is the big need,” Nederland parent and PTA secretary Stacie Beaber said. Nederland Middle/Senior Principal Gavan Goodrich said the school, which has close to 100 students in the middle school and close to 115 in the high school, has focused on other areas for its allotted teaching positions instead of the library. Those areas include an outdoor leadership career and technical education program, as well as advanced placement classes. With teaching staff allocated based on enrollment, he said, it can be challenging to provide all the classes students want — and need to take to meet district graduation requirements. “Every school has to make priorities,” he said. “We have a lot of different needs we need to cover. We have to make some hard decisions.” He said many of the library books were redistributed to language arts teachers. For research, students have the option to use digital resources. Without a staff member to supervise, he said, students generally can only use the library as part of a class when a teacher uses the library as a classroom space. “We don’t have a functioning, traditional library,” he said. Hearing the desire from the school community for more library services, he said, he would like to work with the PTA to potentially hire a part-time paraeducator to run the library and potentially coordinate parent volunteers who could assist with checking out books. Other ideas for the money include updating the library’s collections. “I do think we can fund some creative solutions to make it a library kids can use,” he said. So far, the school has raised $6,500 toward its $10,000 goal. The fundraiser ends Dec. 13. For more information or to donate, go to app.givebacks.gives/nmshspta . Beaber said Nederland’s students deserve the same library services as the district’s other middle and high schools, adding it’s challenging to operate as a rural school in an urban school district. The school draws from a large area that’s generally sparsely populated, while open enrollment from outside the mountain area is limited by distance and the challenges of driving up Boulder Canyon in the winter. The school’s enrollment declines, coupled with Boulder Valley’s need to “right size” school staffing numbers because of a tighter budget, meant the school lost close to two full-time teacher positions last school year. Plus, Beaber said, raising money can be a challenge itself. For the current fundraiser, the PTA set up a competition between the middle schoolers and the high schoolers to encourage donations. The PTA treasurer, who works for Southwest Airlines, also was able to donate two roundtrip tickets as a prize. Business sponsors include Boulder Therapeutics, Nokian Tyres, Waldron Custom Coatings and Tadasana Mountain Yoga. While local businesses are generous in supporting the school, Beaber said, there are fewer businesses to appeal to than in other areas of the school district. The school also is competing with many nonprofit organizations in need of support. “They all work really hard to support us, but we’ll be lucky to get to the $10,000,” she said.LaMelo Ball Injury Status – Hornets vs. 76ers Injury Report December 3Stocks closed higher on Wall Street as the market posted its fifth straight gain and the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched another record high. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%. The benchmark index’s 1.7% gain for the week erased most of its loss from last week. The Dow rose 1% as it nudged past its most recent high set last week, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.2%. Markets have been volatile over the last few weeks, losing ground in the runup to elections in November, then surging following Donald Trump's victory, before falling again. The S&P 500 has been steadily rising throughout this week to within close range of its record. It's now within about 0.5% of its all-time high set last week. “Overall, market behavior has normalized following an intense few weeks,” said Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide, in a statement. Several retailers jumped after giving Wall Street encouraging financial updates. Gap soared 12.8% after handily beating analysts' third-quarter earnings and revenue expectations, while raising its own revenue forecast for the year. Discount retailer Ross Stores rose 2.2% after raising its earnings forecast for the year. EchoStar fell 2.8% after DirecTV called off its purchase of that company's Dish Network unit. Smaller company stocks had some of the biggest gains. The Russell 2000 index rose 1.8%. A majority of stocks in the S&P 500 gained ground, but those gains were kept in check by slumps for several big technology companies. Nvidia fell 3.2%. Its pricey valuation makes it among the heaviest influences on whether the broader market gains or loses ground. The company has grown into a nearly $3.6 trillion behemoth because of demand for its chips used in artificial-intelligence technology. Intuit, which makes TurboTax and other accounting software, fell 5.7%. It gave investors a quarterly earnings forecast that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Facebook owner Meta Platforms fell 0.7% following a decision by the Supreme Court to allow a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against the company. It stems from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. All told, the S&P 500 rose 20.63 points to 5,969.34. The Dow climbed 426.16 points to 44,296.51, and the Nasdaq picked up 42.65 points to close at 2,406.67. European markets closed mostly higher and Asian markets ended mixed. Crude oil prices rose. Treasury yields held relatively steady in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.41% from 4.42% late Thursday. In the crypto market, bitcoin hovered around $99,000, according to CoinDesk. It has more than doubled this year and first surpassed the $99,000 level on Thursday. Retailers remained a big focus for investors this week amid close scrutiny on consumer spending habits headed into the holiday shopping season. Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, reported a quarter of strong sales and gave investors an encouraging financial forecast. Target, though, reported weaker earnings than analysts' expected and its forecast disappointed Wall Street. Consumer spending has fueled economic growth, despite a persistent squeeze from inflation and high borrowing costs. Inflation has been easing and the Federal Reserve has started trimming its benchmark interest rates. That is likely to help relieve pressure on consumers, but any major shift in spending could prompt the Fed to reassess its path ahead on interest rates. Also, any big reversals on the rate of inflation could curtail spending. Consumer sentiment remains strong, according to the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index. It revised its latest figure for November to 71.8 from an initial reading of 73 earlier this month, though economists expected a slight increase. It's still up from 70.5 in October. The survey also showed that consumers' inflation expectations for the year ahead fell slightly to 2.6%, which is the lowest reading since December of 2020. Wall Street will get another update on how consumers feel when the business group The Conference Board releases its monthly consumer confidence survey on Tuesday. A key inflation update will come on Wednesday when the U.S. releases its October personal consumption expenditures index. The PCE is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation and this will be the last PCE reading prior to the central bank's meeting in December.
President Biden’s decision to renege on his pledge not to pardon his prodigal son’s crimes has consequences for the American justice system. Ironically, it also may diminish resistance to President-elect Trump pardoning members of the mob that stormed the Capitol nearly four years ago in an effort to overturn Biden’s 2020 election victory. The two situations are not equivalent, of course. Still, they both tear at the heart of America’s scruples. More than 1,100 Trump supporters got convicted of participating in the siege that sent a joint session of Congress into hiding, injured scores of police officers and left the Capitol in a shambles. Several defendants received probation for misdemeanor charges of entering the Capitol with the mob. But more than 600 were imprisoned from one month to up to 22 years on felony charges of destroying property, assault and battery or encouraging the attack. Trump described them as “political prisoners” and “patriots,” promising to pardon them if elected president again. He said recently he will decide their pardons on a case-by-case basis. A song titled “Justice for All” described their fate. Created and posted often on social media by a group of Jan. 6 defendants (“J6 Choir”) locked in a Washington, D.C. jail block, the song’s popularity drew sympathizers across the country. It briefly made music’s top hits list. Democrats and legal experts denounce Trump’s plan to pardon Jan. 6 defendants as victims of misguided justice. The objection is somewhat hypocritical in the aftermath of Biden pardoning son Hunter. He was convicted of lying on a gun license application and income tax evasion. What devastates the rule of law is Biden’s broken pledge to let his son face the consequences of his felony crimes, including possible prison time. His stunning turnaround occurred, he said, because his son was a victim of a Justice Department political prosecution. That’s the exact reason Trump advances for his intent to pardon some, if not all, the Jan. 6 defendants. He also claims that’s why he was prosecuted and convicted of 34 felonies in his hush money trial as well as charges pending in his other legal cases. Oddly, it seems Biden and Trump agree the Justice Department has been weaponized for political means. Trump says when he returns to office he will rid the department, including its FBI office, of what he calls partisan hacks bent on destroying the country. They will, of course, be replaced by diehard loyalists committed to his America First agenda. Democrats can hardly object. Their president of the last four years has damned the Justice Department and demoralized its employees for his own sake. And just two months before departing the White House. Listen to his attempt to rationalize the decision to pardon his son when he said repeatedly he would not. “For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They will be fair-minded,” Biden said in a statement. “Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected the process and it led to a miscarriage of justice (of his son).” Biden asked Americans to understand “why a father and a president would come to this decision.” Many will not. Sure, other presidents, including Trump in his first term, granted pardons to family and friends for alleged criminal behavior. In most of these cases, the persons pardoned felt the outcome of their sentences, including prison time. Biden’s rollback of his no pardon pledge — just two weeks before his son’s sentencing — disregarded the legal standard that no person is above the law; that everyone is treated equally no matter their station in life. Sadly, Biden’s decision of defiance comes at a time when the justice system’s moral fiber is fraying.
NoneThousands of pro-EU protesters march on Georgia parliamentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin needs hip surgery and will be out four to six months, jeopardizing the season for the 32-year-old now dealing with the second major hip injury of his career. Seguin will have a procedure to repair an impingement and the labrum in his left hip, the team said Wednesday. The surgery is planned for Thursday. “Tyler’s been dealing with this, been managing, I guess is the best way to say it, for a while,” general manager Jim Nill said. “And it just got to a point where it’s really this time to have surgery, and it’s a wear-and-tear injury.” The six-time All-Star missed all but three games of the 2020-21 season following a similar surgery on his right hip. Seguin also underwent arthroscopic knee surgery during that absence. Seguin tried to play through hip pain during the playoff bubble in Canada in 2020, when the Stars reached the Stanley Cup Final before losing to Tampa Bay. He played 19 of the first 23 games this season and is third on the team with 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists). The Stars put Seguin on injured reserve after a 3-1 victory over Winnipeg on Sunday. “He’s done a great job with it," defenseman Miro Heiskanen said. "You couldn’t really tell if he’s hurt or not, he was playing so good.” Seguin played 81 games the first season after the surgery on his right hip and didn't miss any of Dallas' playoff games in runs to the Western Conference final each of the past two seasons. After winning the Stanley Cup title with Boston as a rookie in 2010-11, Seguin spent two more seasons with Boston before getting traded to Dallas in 2013. Seguin averaged 34 goals and 43 assists in his first six years with the Stars and signed a $78.8 million, eight-year extension in 2019. Nill said it was too early to know how the Stars, who are currently fourth in the Western Conference, might use the salary cap space that would be available by placing Seguin on long-term injured reserve. By moving Seguin's cap hit of $9.85 million to LTIR, it could allow them to add another standout player before the March 7 trade deadline. “We’re in a good position cap wise, we got some cap room, and we’re good roster wise. So, we’re just going to kind of monitor that as the season goes forward,” Nill said. AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl