Albertson terminated its merger with krogh and announced an increase in dividend and repurchase plan. albertson Company announced that it had exercised its right to terminate its merger agreement with krogh, because the US District Court in Oregon and the District Court in Washington issued an injunction on the proposed merger on December 10th. Vivek Sankaran, CEO of the company, commented: "In view of the recent decision of the federal and state courts to block the proposed merger between the company and krogh, we have made a difficult decision to terminate the merger agreement. We are very disappointed with the court's decision. " In addition, the board of directors of albertson Company plans to increase the quarterly cash dividend from $0.12 to $0.15 per share, and approved a stock repurchase plan of up to $2 billion.Market News: US Secretary of State Blinken will travel to Jordan and Turkey for talks on the Syrian issue on Wednesday.Pakistan KSE-100 index rose 0.5% to 109,693.20.
Blonde Technology: Shareholders holding more than 5% of the shares plan to transfer 2% of the shares internally. Blonde Technology announced that as of the announcement date, Ms. Xiong Haitao, a shareholder, holds 122 million shares of the company, accounting for 4.64% of the company's total share capital; Ms. Xiong Haitao and her concerted actions hold a total of 216 million shares, accounting for 8.2% of the total share capital. Ms. Xiong Haitao plans to sign an agreement with Warburg Wanying Private Equity Fund to increase it as a concerted action, and plans to transfer no more than 52.73 million shares to it through block trading, that is, no more than 2% of the total share capital. After the transfer is completed, Huabao Wanying will entrust Ms. Xiong Haitao with the right to vote on the shares. This internal transfer does not involve market reduction, and the shareholding ratio remains unchanged, which does not affect the company's control.Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar: Qatar will soon reopen its embassy in Syria.The USD/JPY intraday increase of USD/JPY expanded to 0.50% and is now reported at 152.72.
Xia Yiping issued an internal letter: the company will merge duplicate departments and cut unprofitable projects. Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam, communicated with all employees through video conference, frankly indicating that the company is currently experiencing difficulties, and the company needs to adjust immediately and enter the 2.0 stage of entrepreneurship. The management will go all out to tide over the difficulties with all employees. In the letter sent on the same day, Xia Yiping said that Jiyue Automobile will do well in four aspects when it enters the stage of entrepreneurship 2.0: insisting on long-term investment in core technologies to maintain its leading edge; Strengthen sales and service capacity building to cope with fierce market competition; Merge departments and posts with duplicate functions, change inefficient internal workflow, and cut projects that cannot improve financial performance in the short term. (Auto has a style)Kremlin: (Asked about Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's diplomatic means to provide Assad with safe passage) There is nothing to add to this.Spot gold just broke through the $2,690.00/oz mark, and the latest price was $2,689.72/oz, down 0.15% in the day.