30 April 2021 | 11:54am
StockMarketWire.com - The FTSE 100 had dipped slightly by midday to 6,955.92 as investors weighed up mixed trading in Asia overnight with another outstanding set of numbers from the US tech sector as Amazon reported better than expected quarterly figures
High-street bank Barclays reported a sharp rise in first-quarter profit as materially lower credit impairment charges offset a fall in income. For the three months through March, pre-tax profit jumped to a record £2.4 billion from £0.9 billion, while income slipped 6% to £5.9 billion year-on-year. However, its share price slipped in morning trading, down 6% to 177.2p.
Packaging firm Smurfit Kappa has revealed that corrugated volume growth in the first quarter was up approximately 7% in both Europe and the Americas, driving underlying revenue growth of 6% to €2,269 million (£1,972 million). It opened today up 3.2% to £36.78 per share.
On April 7, the city had its 12th homicide of the year as a 30-year-old female was found dead in a home on SW 60th Street.
Few details were known in the following days. Was this a drug-related homicide? A domestic dispute? Or maybe a murder related to the citys increase in gang activity?
All that was known was it was another body in a city that has seen its murder count steadily rise over the past decade.
In 2006, Oklahoma Citys four-year homicide average was 49.2 a year. After last years 75 murders, the citys current four-year average is 73.5, a 149-percent increase.
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Dr. S. Howard Wittels and his son, Tiger Tech CEO Harrison Wittels, developed a mini-EKG armband. It has been used by the military for years to monitor soldiers and track their health.
COVID-19 causes inflammation to the heart and blood vessels, so the Wittels and their team realized they could update their device with light sensors that can detect that inflammation.
Tiger Tech COVID Plus armband is completely noninvasive and it takes less than 3 to 5 minutes to render a decision. Device checks for abnormalities in a participant’s biometrics, along with other COVID-19 complications. But it’s not a simple task – COVID Plus uses hundreds of unique biomarkers to find patterns associated with COVID-19.
25.04.2021
Strabag: Strabag subsidiary Züblin and Dreßler Bau GmbH are working together as management contractors in a consortium to realise the new public administration headquarters in the heart of Dresden. The design-and-build contract, which will leave its mark on the Dresden cityscape, was awarded by Kommunale Immobilien Dresden GmbH & Co. KG with a fixed lump sum price of Euro 116 mn. The project is based on a design by the architectural firms Barcode Architects (Rotterdam) and Tchoban Voss Architekten (Hamburg/Dresden). The contract has now been ceremoniously signed and the consortium of ZÜBLIN (66 %) and Dreßler Bau (34 %) will begin realising the striking 33 metre administration building at Ferdinandplatz scheduled for completion within a period of about four years. The detailed design phase is currently underway, to be followed by a three-year construction period from spring 2022 until late March 2025. The project will be preceded by archaeological excavations commissi