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How to develop the electric power industry on the basis of ecological compatibility - was noted at the State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan (SEIT) within the framework of the conference on studying international experience in the field of sustainable energy for environmental protection. The event was preceded by an exhibition of scientific works on the profile of the university, accompanied by a performance by the Kuvvat music and song collective. The electric power industry is one of the main sectors of the country's economy, and special attention is paid to its development, modernization and renovation, and expansion of infrastructure in the country. In the future, the sector will produced energy from renewable sources - these are the conditions of the global climate agenda. And the first industrial hybrid solar-wind plant facility is being prepared for opening in the western part of the country in Balkan velayat. In this regard, during the conference, Turkmenistan's achieved results in the field of energy conservation were discussed, and examples of an increase in the share of renewable energy sources in European countries were presented. Reports on the following topics were "regional practices for the development of green energy", "renewable energy sources: opportunities and challenges", "hydrogen is the fuel of the future", "climate change and energy", "solar thermal systems", etc. were listened. The conditions and possibilities of introducing energy-efficient technologies in construction, the possibility of issuing a "green" certificate to buildings under construction and planned for construction were discussed. Speakers from the Republic of Kazakhstan, Georgia, Latvia and Poland spoke distant. Then, international experts held a training seminar on the topic "Stable energy communication in Central Asia" for teachers and students of SEIT, and certificates were awarded to the participants. The events were held within the framework of the plan agreed upon the European Union Mission in Turkmenistan with the Government of the country for the current year.Will Jamaal Williams Play in Week 13? NFL Injury Status, News & UpdatesCitigroup Inc. lifted its position in Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. ( NASDAQ:FYBR – Free Report ) by 106.9% in the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 239,893 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 123,939 shares during the quarter. Citigroup Inc.’s holdings in Frontier Communications Parent were worth $8,523,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of FYBR. Russell Investments Group Ltd. boosted its stake in Frontier Communications Parent by 140.9% in the first quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 4,208 shares of the company’s stock worth $103,000 after buying an additional 2,461 shares in the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD lifted its holdings in shares of Frontier Communications Parent by 6.8% in the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 118,907 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,914,000 after acquiring an additional 7,602 shares during the last quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale lifted its holdings in shares of Frontier Communications Parent by 23.5% in the 1st quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 105,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,587,000 after acquiring an additional 20,000 shares during the last quarter. NBC Securities Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Frontier Communications Parent by 20.9% in the 2nd quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 105,912 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,772,000 after purchasing an additional 18,331 shares in the last quarter. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC grew its holdings in shares of Frontier Communications Parent by 117.1% during the 2nd quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 14,745 shares of the company’s stock valued at $386,000 after purchasing an additional 7,952 shares during the last quarter. Frontier Communications Parent Stock Performance Shares of FYBR stock opened at $34.81 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.77, a current ratio of 0.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.28. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $35.31 and a 200 day moving average of $30.56. The firm has a market capitalization of $8.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -46.41 and a beta of 1.10. Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. has a 52 week low of $20.51 and a 52 week high of $39.21. Analysts Set New Price Targets Several analysts have issued reports on the stock. Moffett Nathanson lowered shares of Frontier Communications Parent from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 5th. Wells Fargo & Company restated an “equal weight” rating and set a $38.50 target price (up from $31.00) on shares of Frontier Communications Parent in a report on Friday, September 6th. Wolfe Research cut Frontier Communications Parent from an “outperform” rating to a “peer perform” rating in a research note on Monday, September 30th. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price objective on Frontier Communications Parent from $29.00 to $32.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, August 5th. Finally, Benchmark reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $37.00 target price on shares of Frontier Communications Parent in a research note on Thursday, September 5th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $35.31. Read Our Latest Report on Frontier Communications Parent Insiders Place Their Bets In other news, EVP John Harrobin sold 23,491 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.85, for a total value of $818,661.35. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 121,182 shares in the company, valued at $4,223,192.70. This trade represents a 16.24 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink . Company insiders own 1.40% of the company’s stock. About Frontier Communications Parent ( Free Report ) Frontier Communications Parent, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides communication and technology services in the United States. It offers broadband, video, voice, and other value-added services. The company also provides data and Internet, including broadband networking services; data-based voice over internet protocol, unified communications, long-distance, and voice messaging services; video services under the Frontier TV brand; access services; hardware and network solutions; and packages of services. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding FYBR? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. ( NASDAQ:FYBR – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Frontier Communications Parent Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Frontier Communications Parent and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

It was around 1am when I discovered my impostor was watching me. I was sitting up in bed, scrolling on my phone through the list of people who had viewed my Instagram story. The audience was the same as it always was: friends, family and a smattering of followers I had picked up over the years. But a tug from my subconscious told me, this time, something was wrong. I scrolled back up and there it was: an account I had never seen before. Their profile photo was a selfie I had taken in a bookshop basement years ago. Have you ever walked by an unexpected mirror and jumped at your own reflection? That’s how it felt as I stared back at myself, unnerved by my sudden appearance. I brought the screen close to my face. The photo was old, from 2016, but it was a day I remembered well. I had just handed in my university dissertation and I was enjoying my newfound freedom. I had been ambling through Cardiff and had taken a snapshot in a mirror to mark the moment. My gold iPhone 5 looked tiny in my hand and I was wearing my favourite flannel shirt. These were familiar fragments of my life back then. Now, someone had seemingly come along and picked them up out of the bin. Was it just a glitch? A strange Meta mess-up that would reset if I clicked on their account? I would feel silly but relieved, then settle into bed with the world returned to how it was. But when I visited their page the image remained. According to Instagram, it now belonged to someone named Paweł Sibilski. Paweł had 691 followers and he was following more than 2,600 people. I couldn’t see who they were, or the four posts he had shared, because his profile was private. In his bio, written in Polish, he described himself as a developer and investor. There was a Facebook link beneath it. I tapped it with a curiosity that swelled into horror. Paweł’s Facebook was like a shrine devoted to my face. His profile photo was a selfie I had taken outside a pub in 2018. His cover photo, directly above it, was a shot of me wearing a hoodie on a frosty day in 2016. There was another photo where I was mid-expression, my hair blown sideways; I couldn’t even remember when that was taken. It was like watching footage of myself sleepwalking; there I was, all over his account, with no memory of how I got there. Panic set in. The account was mostly private, but I pieced together what I could. Every photo (besides a stock image of an empty bar) was a different closeup of me. Paweł had been uploading them since 2020, but they spanned almost a decade of my life. Hundreds of people had liked and commented on them, and Paweł had humbly thanked them. He was incredibly popular, with 4,600 Facebook friends (about six times more than I have on my own account) – and he had spent the last four years convincing them that he was really me. I thought of the hapless hero in Dostoevsky’s novel The Double, when Golyadkin encounters his beguiling doppelganger. The duplicate charms his way into Golyadkin’s life, wins over his colleagues and friends, and eventually replaces him. Golyadkin later loses grip of his identity and has a severe mental breakdown. I know this story because it was the subject of my dissertation, the same one I had handed in before taking that bookshop selfie. Did my impostor somehow know this? Had he read the book as well? What else were we sharing that I had once thought belonged only to me? Paweł’s Facebook account had a longer bio, again written in Polish. I used Google to translate the top line. “Bądź Zawsze Sobą,” it read. “Always be yourself.” I couldn’t decide if it was comical or violating. I was concerned, but also weirdly flattered. I couldn’t help feeling slightly buoyed up by the fact that I had been selected; that my photos were considered worth stealing. But who was Paweł, why had he chosen me and what had he done with my identity? * * * My impostor was more protective of my personal details than I had been in my online life. In order to see what else he had hijacked, I had to become his Facebook friend. A fresh wave of paranoia made me wonder if we were already connected. I rushed back to my private account and scanned my friends list. How well did I really know these people? In recent months I had tightened my social media security, but in the past I had recklessly accepted all requests. I’d had the same Facebook account for over 15 years, and Paweł had clearly been watching me for about half a decade. I tried to view my profile as one of my current 800 “friends” would see it. They would know the names of my family and pets, where I studied, where I worked, where my parents were buried, what my childhood looked like, where I lived, the places I had been and the places I was likely to visit again. It was a fraudster’s cheat sheet, a stalker’s dream. Paweł was accepting compliments about my face beneath my reproduced photos and passing them off as his own. He was clearly a crafty catfish, an online con artist who takes someone else’s images and pretends to be them to deceive others. I decided to give him the same treatment; I would make a fake account and try to catfish my own impostor. Creating an alias was harder than I expected. I didn’t want to use a name that might belong to a real person, but the pseudonyms I came up with sounded ridiculous, like badly written 1950s detectives: would accept a friend request from Eric Pistachio or Dirk Avalanche? I ended up using my middle name followed by the first syllable of my mother’s maiden name. I typed “cartoon character” into Google and used a popular result as my profile photo: an image of the anime ninja Naruto. For a cover photo I went with a generic woodland. It was as easy as that: a fake name and a fake face, made real by the internet. Facebook suggested some strangers I should add, so I sent them all requests to make me look more legitimate. I was surprised when dozens immediately accepted. How easily they had just let a catfish into their lives. I clicked on some of their profiles: family photos, career updates and tagged locations – I had access to the lot. ‘Most girls wanted to have sex with you,’ he told me. ‘I got some nude photos and videos, it was so nice’ I sent Paweł a friend request. It felt sticky and horrible, as if I was betraying myself and playing into his game. Here I was, dressed as a cartoon character while I asked a stranger for permission to look at myself. Everything was out of sync. I closed my laptop, laid down in bed and tried not to think about Golyadkin. The next morning I had 89 new friends, but Paweł wasn’t among them. He had either rejected or ignored my request. Had he somehow seen right through it? In a normal state I would have waited but I was too agitated for patience. I started drafting a message under my pseudonym. It was confrontational, so I dialled it back. I wanted answers, not to scare him off. I told him my name was Andrew, and that I knew he was using my photos, but I said I was more curious than annoyed and simply had some questions. I took a breath and clicked send. “This account can’t receive your message because they don’t allow new message requests from everyone.” I had stooped to the level of a catfish for nothing. In frustration I copied and pasted my message beneath one of his (my) photos. I took screenshots of his accounts and posted them to my Instagram story, to warn my friends and family. Then I took a selfie and pointed accusingly at the camera. My finger loomed large, close to the lens; on the tip I wrote, “Get your own face, Paweł.” My followers reacted just like I had, with a mix of shock and laughter. It was surreal but funny, wasn’t it? A troubling sort of compliment. I had so many messages that I almost missed one. It was sent in such a frantic state it was missing proper punctuation. “Hey do we know each other? Where do you know me from?” it read. It was Paweł. The fake innocence riled me up, along with the subtle accusation that was somehow bothering . He had a new profile photo now, a stock image of a silhouetted concert crowd. I told him who I was and that I wanted answers. He read this straight away and then the chat went dead for 12 minutes. “I think it’s only fair, don’t you?” I followed up. “You have been using my photos for many years without my knowledge and befriending lots of people posing as me. All I’m asking for is an explanation.” He started to type. He typed for a long time. The three dots promised some sort of closure, but his response when it came was disjointed and confusing – eight lines long without any full stops. Paweł later revealed he was translating everything I’d said into his native Polish, and I sensed he was also panicking. So I slowed down and asked him very basic questions. “Would you be happy to share your real name, or your age or general location?” “I’m a bit ashamed,” he replied, and seemed to mean it. He typed like an embarrassed child who had been caught stealing sweets. “How old are you?” I tried again. “I’m assuming you’re a man?” “Yes, that’s right, I’m a man. I gave my age as 25 – I’m generally a bit older.” “How much older than 25?” He was being coy, but I felt as if I was getting somewhere. The chat went silent again for a few minutes. “I live in Warsaw. I’m 42 years old, I have a wife, two children and, as you can see, a double personality.” I reeled back. I had assumed he was a young loner, not a family man. I imagined him now, messaging me while his kids played nearby. It creeped me out again. I tried to keep my questions straightforward and calm, so I didn’t scare him into silence, and slowly he began to reveal what he had done with my identity. Paweł said he initially created the account because he wanted to make money. He had some sort of scheme I didn’t understand, but it involved selling products. He needed a photo of someone “handsome” to lure customers in. He had found me by chance as a Google result because of an old article I had written; then he had tracked down my social media. He had used my face because he thought no one would recognise it. “Pretty boy not very popular,” he wrote. “You are not a celebrity, you are not famous.” I was now being by my impostor. Paweł failed to make money from the account, but somewhere along the line he started to enjoy logging in as me. “I could be free. I wasn’t afraid of anyone,” he wrote. I almost felt sorry for him as he explained how he would come home from a tough, physical job, start drinking alcohol and slip into his online identity. “Then I opened up – I was you,” he wrote. “I could feel like someone else for a moment and express my opinion without fear of persecution.” This made me incredibly nervous. “What sort of opinions did you express using my profile photo?” “Generally you got nice opinions,” he said, as if he was unable to separate the two of us in his mind. The exception, he said, would be in talking to “someone, mainly a woman, who overdid it with plastic surgery. Then I wrote honestly that she was ruining her appearance, and because you are so handsome, they wondered if they were doing the right thing.” I have done nothing wrong to anyone. No one has reported me or anything, Can I still have your account for a while? I felt a pang of helpless shock. Paweł was dressing up as me and haranguing women. I had viewed him as a low-risk fantasist, but he clearly had a cruel streak. Over the following days we continued to message, and Paweł’s revelations became more sinister. “Most girls wanted to have sex with you,” he wrote. “I also got some nude photos and videos, it was so nice.” He said he had used the account to start simultaneous romantic relationships with women who all thought they were talking to me. These lasted for up to six months at a time and ended only because Paweł refused to meet them in person. He said he still had their videos saved in a personal archive. “Did you feel bad that the people sending you nude images thought they were sending them to someone else?” I asked in disbelief, trying not to let my anger show. “Honestly I didn’t think about it, I was amused by the fact that they were so naive,” he wrote. “Maybe something is wrong with my psyche?” I had thought I was the main casualty of Paweł’s deception, but now it was clear that the real victims were the women he had tricked. I felt sickened that he had involved me in this. I asked if his wife knew. He said she almost caught him on the fake account once, but he convinced her it belonged to a friend. She had no idea about his second life and the string of women he had manipulated. “I feel guilty,” Paweł wrote. “It’s good you caught me because I wanted to end it for a long time, thank you.” “Were you worried about being found out?” I asked. “I have done nothing wrong to anyone. On the contrary, [as] you see for yourself, so many years and no one has reported me or anything,” he wrote, having recovered from his short-lived shame. “Can I still have your account for a while as you?” He claimed he was using the catfish account for “good” and acting as a “psychologist” for the people he had tricked, because he talked them through their problems. This just made them sound all the more vulnerable, and his actions all the more despicable. “I would like you to tell anyone you are still speaking to that you are not really me, and to close the account,” I wrote back. “OK, I will do that,” he replied finally. * * * Paweł later told me he had deleted the profile, but I could see it was still intact. He had simply removed my images, leaving empty templates ready to be filled again. At one point Paweł unashamedly liked all of my recent Instagram photos. Part of me feared he had saved them for future use, then I remembered something he had said about AI being so convincing these days that you could use that to make a fake account instead. This was hardly reassuring. I asked Paweł if he would put me in touch with the women he had tricked. I didn’t know what I would say to them even if he agreed; I suppose I just wanted to check they were OK. He ignored this request, then eventually said he didn’t want them to know the truth. Without his help it was impossible to track them down; his friends and followers lists were still private. Even if I somehow gained access, he had amassed thousands of connections; I had no idea which of them, or how many, he had manipulated. I tried to shut Paweł’s account down by reporting it to Meta. I received an automatic response in seconds that said his profile didn’t go against their community standards so they wouldn’t remove it. I emailed Facebook support and tried Meta’s press office, asking about their stance on catfishing and what it would take to remove a fake account, but I received no response. I emailed the Metropolitan police, who advised me to report what had happened, but they told me they weren’t sure where it would sit as a criminal case because the impostor seemingly lived in Poland. It felt as if there was nothing I could do to stop him. I asked Paweł if he had a final comment about his actions. “That’s how it is in life – we don’t always do everything as it should be, it’s important to admit the mistake and change for the better,” he wrote. “I’m busy with work now and I got bored of pretending to be someone else.” Who knows if this, or anything he told me, was true. His Facebook account is still online. For years Paweł secretly followed me; now our roles have been reversed. I find myself occasionally searching his name and keeping tabs on his page, making sure those images are still empty and not filled in with updated photos of my face, or that of someone else completely oblivious to his deception.Giuliana warns her partner: “If he cheats on me, I’ll say ‘bye’”

70 Gifts under $25 on Amazon that are legitimately amazingThe gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fled New York City by bus, police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. Here's the latest: The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer may have fled the city on a bus, New York City police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. “We have reason to believe that the person in question has left New York City,” Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer made sure to wear a mask during the shooting yet left a trail of evidence in view of the nation’s biggest city and its network of security cameras that have aided authorities piecing together his movements and his identity. A law enforcement official said Friday that new surveillance footage shows the suspect riding the subway and visiting establishments in Manhattan and provided more clues about his actions in the days before he ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . The gunman’s whereabouts and identity remain unknown Friday, as did the reason for Wednesday’s killing. New York City police say evidence firmly points to it being a targeted attack . ▶ Read more about the search for the gunman In many companies, investor meetings like the one UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was walking to when he was fatally shot are viewed as very risky because details on the location and who will be speaking are highly publicized. “It gives people an opportunity to arrive well in advance and take a look at the room, take a look at how people would probably come and go out of a location,” said Dave Komendat, president of DSKomendat Risk Management Services, which is based in the greater Seattle area. Some firms respond by beefing up security. For example, tech companies routinely require everyone attending a major event, such as Apple’s annual unveiling of the next iPhone or a shareholder meeting, to go through airport-style security checkpoints before entering. Others forgo in-person meetings with shareholders. ▶ Read more about how companies protect their leaders Those images include New York’s subway system, a law enforcement official said. In establishments where the person was captured on camera, he always appeared to pay with cash, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. — Mike Balsamo Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm that serves 1.5 million customers in 12 states, said it’s temporarily closing all six locations. The firm has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota, and employs about 3,000 people. Employees will work from home, Medica spokesman Greg Bury said in an email Friday. “The safety of Medica employees is our top priority and we have increased security both for all of our employees,” a statement from Medica said. “Although we have received no specific threats related to our campuses, our office buildings will be temporarily closed out of an abundance of caution.” Bury also said biographical information on the company’s executives was taken down from its website as a precaution. The insurer cited the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in its announcement about the Dec. 12 event. “All of us at Centene are deeply saddened by Brian Thompson’s death and want to express our support for all of those affected. Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers,” Centene CEO Sarah M. London said in a news release. “He was a person with a deep sense of empathy and clear passion for improving access to care. Our hearts are with his family and his colleagues during this difficult time.” Centene Corp. has grown in recent years to become the largest insurer in Medicaid, the state- and federally funded program that covers care for people with low incomes. Insurers manage Medicaid coverage for states, and Centene has more than 13 million people enrolled in that coverage. The insurance company also said it’s focused on ensuring the safety of employees and assisting investigators. “While our hearts are broken, we have been touched by the huge outpouring of kindness and support in the hours since this horrific crime took place,” the company said. But he said Friday that he’s confident police will arrest the shooter. “We are on the right road to apprehend him and bring him to justice,” Adams said on TV station WPIX. Later, it removed their names and biographies entirely. Police and federal agents have been collecting information from Greyhound in an attempt to identify the suspect and are working to determine whether he purchased the ticket to New York in late November, a law enforcement official said. Investigators were also trying to obtain additional information from a cellphone recovered from a pedestrian plaza through which the shooter fled. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely varied approaches companies take to protect their leaders against threats. Experts say today’s political, economic and technological climate is only going to make the job of evaluating threats against executives and taking action to protect them even more difficult, experts say. Some organizations have a protective intelligence group that uses digital tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to comb through online comments to detect threats not only on social media platforms such as X but also on the dark web, says Komendat. They look for what’s being said about the company, its employees and its leadership to uncover risks. ▶ Read more about the steps companies take to protect their leadership Police said Thursday they found a water bottle and protein bar wrapper from a trash can near the scene of the ambush and think the suspect bought them from a Starbucks minutes before the shooting. The items were being tested by the city’s medical examiner.On Nov. 20, Nvidia reported financial results for its fiscal 2025 third quarter, showing stunning 94% year-over-year revenue growth. The business is absolutely booming, and so is the stock price. As of this writing, Nvidia stock is up close to 200% year to date. As impressive as those returns are for Nvidia, it's not the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC 0.35% ) this year. That distinction presently belongs to energy company Vistra ( VST -2.81% ) , which has gained 332% in 2024. Vistra provides residential electricity and owns power generation plants, including nuclear plants . And many investors believe that its nuclear assets set it up to meet the growing power needs of artificial intelligence (AI). However, after gaining over 300% in under a year, is it too late to buy Vistra stock? Stock market history can serve as a guide. Here's what happened with S&P 500's winners Looking at top stocks from the past can offer some useful insights. For practical reasons, I had to limit the scope of this survey by setting some parameters. First, I'm only looking at the last 10 years for the S&P 500 . Second, I've only included stocks that were members of the S&P 500 for the entire year. Companies included in the index during the year were excluded from the results. Over the last 10 years, Southwest Airlines , Netflix , Nvidia, Align Technology , AMD , Devon Energy , and Occidental Petroleum have all taken the top-stock crown at least once. Year Best-Performing Stock Return When It Was the Top Stock Return the Following Year 2014 Southwest Airlines 125% 2% 2015 Netflix 134% 8% 2016 Nvidia 224% 81% 2017 Align Technology 131% (6%) 2018 AMD 80% 148% 2019 AMD 148% 100% 2020 Nvidia 122% 125% 2021 Devon Energy 179% 40% 2022 Occidental Petroleum 117% (5%) 2023 Nvidia 239% 196%* Return data from YCharts. Table by author. *Year-to-date return as of 11/21/24. This data is actually quite surprising. After being the index's top stock, one would think it would be due for a pullback. But in reality, the past decade's annual best performers continued their winning streak the next year in eight out of 10 cases. Moreover, the average gain in the second year was huge. Investors could have made a lot of money by simply buying whichever was the best stock in the past year. Let's say an investor bought Southwest Airlines stock on Dec. 31, 2014 and held for all of 2015. And let's say that this investor sold Southwest Airlines at the end of 2015 and rolled that investment into Netflix for 2016, then did the same for Nvidia in 2017, and so on. Let's exclude trading fees and taxes for simplicity (but don't exclude them in real life because they can add up). If an investor used this strategy and started with a $10,000 investment, they'd have over $800,000 by year 10. Again, these sensational returns weren't achieved by predicting which stock would be the best in the coming year. It would have been achieved by simply buying what already had been the best stock -- no prophetic powers needed. Therefore, history suggests Vistra stock is headed higher in 2025. What does this mean for Vistra stock? Before I go further, I should note that Vistra stock was added to the S&P 500 in May. So, unlike the stocks in my example, it wasn't a part of the index for the entire year. Returns from my above strategy aren't quite as good when including mid-year additions to the S&P 500, though these stocks still went up in value the following year more often than not. However, investors need to be extremely careful with what they take away from this historical data. Rather than look at this as some surefire approach to investing, there's a far better takeaway. Stocks bounce around day by day for any number of reasons. But the longer the time horizon, the more stock movements are tied to business results. At the risk of sounding overly simplistic, positive results send shares higher , whereas poor results drop shares lower. To put this another way, it's the difference between correlation and causation. History shows that the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 tends to go up the following year as well. But that's correlation, not causation. The cause, however, is the strong underlying business results. And those business results tend to stay strong for multiple years, if not longer. For this reason, investors would do well to give Vistra stock a close look . Whether from AI or the general electrification of the grid, the company's services will enjoy growing demand in coming years. The company is leaning more into nuclear power by buying out minority investors in its Vistra Vision business. And it's a company with a history of profitability and returning cash to shareholders. So, while Vistra stock is on pace to be the top stock in the S&P 500 for 2024, this doesn't mean the stock has peaked. To the contrary, the best performers in past years have gone on to deliver even more gains because in many cases, their soaring stock prices reflected positive developments within the business that extended beyond the end of each year. And it's that core business investors should focus on, whether it's with Vistra or any another company.

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The gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fled New York City by bus, police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. Here's the latest: The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer may have fled the city on a bus, New York City police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. “We have reason to believe that the person in question has left New York City,” Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer made sure to wear a mask during the shooting yet left a trail of evidence in view of the nation’s biggest city and its network of security cameras that have aided authorities piecing together his movements and his identity. A law enforcement official said Friday that new surveillance footage shows the suspect riding the subway and visiting establishments in Manhattan and provided more clues about his actions in the days before he ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . The gunman’s whereabouts and identity remain unknown Friday, as did the reason for Wednesday’s killing. New York City police say evidence firmly points to it being a targeted attack . ▶ Read more about the search for the gunman In many companies, investor meetings like the one UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was walking to when he was fatally shot are viewed as very risky because details on the location and who will be speaking are highly publicized. “It gives people an opportunity to arrive well in advance and take a look at the room, take a look at how people would probably come and go out of a location,” said Dave Komendat, president of DSKomendat Risk Management Services, which is based in the greater Seattle area. Some firms respond by beefing up security. For example, tech companies routinely require everyone attending a major event, such as Apple’s annual unveiling of the next iPhone or a shareholder meeting, to go through airport-style security checkpoints before entering. Others forgo in-person meetings with shareholders. ▶ Read more about how companies protect their leaders Those images include New York’s subway system, a law enforcement official said. In establishments where the person was captured on camera, he always appeared to pay with cash, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. — Mike Balsamo Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm that serves 1.5 million customers in 12 states, said it’s temporarily closing all six locations. The firm has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota, and employs about 3,000 people. Employees will work from home, Medica spokesman Greg Bury said in an email Friday. “The safety of Medica employees is our top priority and we have increased security both for all of our employees,” a statement from Medica said. “Although we have received no specific threats related to our campuses, our office buildings will be temporarily closed out of an abundance of caution.” Bury also said biographical information on the company’s executives was taken down from its website as a precaution. The insurer cited the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in its announcement about the Dec. 12 event. “All of us at Centene are deeply saddened by Brian Thompson’s death and want to express our support for all of those affected. Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers,” Centene CEO Sarah M. London said in a news release. “He was a person with a deep sense of empathy and clear passion for improving access to care. Our hearts are with his family and his colleagues during this difficult time.” Centene Corp. has grown in recent years to become the largest insurer in Medicaid, the state- and federally funded program that covers care for people with low incomes. Insurers manage Medicaid coverage for states, and Centene has more than 13 million people enrolled in that coverage. The insurance company also said it’s focused on ensuring the safety of employees and assisting investigators. “While our hearts are broken, we have been touched by the huge outpouring of kindness and support in the hours since this horrific crime took place,” the company said. But he said Friday that he’s confident police will arrest the shooter. “We are on the right road to apprehend him and bring him to justice,” Adams said on TV station WPIX. Later, it removed their names and biographies entirely. Police and federal agents have been collecting information from Greyhound in an attempt to identify the suspect and are working to determine whether he purchased the ticket to New York in late November, a law enforcement official said. Investigators were also trying to obtain additional information from a cellphone recovered from a pedestrian plaza through which the shooter fled. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely varied approaches companies take to protect their leaders against threats. Experts say today’s political, economic and technological climate is only going to make the job of evaluating threats against executives and taking action to protect them even more difficult, experts say. Some organizations have a protective intelligence group that uses digital tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to comb through online comments to detect threats not only on social media platforms such as X but also on the dark web, says Komendat. They look for what’s being said about the company, its employees and its leadership to uncover risks. ▶ Read more about the steps companies take to protect their leadership Police said Thursday they found a water bottle and protein bar wrapper from a trash can near the scene of the ambush and think the suspect bought them from a Starbucks minutes before the shooting. The items were being tested by the city’s medical examiner.

Saturday, November 30, 2024 In a significant milestone for Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain has been crowned the Caribbean’s Leading Business Travel Destination for 2024 at the prestigious World Travel AwardsTM. Competing against top regional contenders such as Georgetown (Guyana), Hamilton (Bermuda), Kingston (Jamaica), San Juan (Puerto Rico), and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Port of Spain emerged victorious, cementing its position as a hub for business travel and international events. The award recognizes Port of Spain’s pivotal role in hosting high-profile business events throughout the year. Among the key gatherings were the 33rd Annual Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) Conference and Exhibition, the CAPA Airline Leader Summit 2024, and the upcoming CANSO Latin America and Caribbean Conference scheduled for December 2-4, 2024. These events have solidified Port of Spain’s reputation as a center for regional collaboration, knowledge exchange, and industry innovation. The city’s infrastructure, accessibility, and vibrant business community have been integral to its success in attracting global events and participants. Established in 1993, the World Travel AwardsTM is a globally recognized platform that celebrates excellence across all sectors of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries. Known as the ultimate hallmark of industry distinction, the awards feature a Grand Tour of regional gala ceremonies, culminating in a Grand Final where winners compete on a global stage. Each year, the World Travel AwardsTM draw key decision-makers, influencers, and industry leaders to its gala events. The awards are also a significant social media phenomenon, amplifying winners’ visibility across multiple platforms and channels. Port of Spain’s victory is no accident. The city boasts a blend of modern infrastructure, a rich cultural backdrop, and strategic positioning in the Caribbean. Its accessibility via Piarco International Airport, combined with a wide range of accommodations and event facilities, makes it an ideal location for business travelers. Moreover, Trinidad and Tobago’s proactive approach to tourism and business travel has been a driving force. The government and private sector have collaborated on initiatives to enhance the destination’s appeal, emphasizing sustainable practices, local culture, and global connectivity. The CANSO Latin America and Caribbean Conference 2024 is poised to further highlight Port of Spain’s capabilities as a business travel destination. Industry leaders from aviation, technology, and policy will convene in the city, strengthening its role as a nexus for regional and international discussions. These events also provide an opportunity for local businesses to engage with global networks, fostering economic growth and innovation within Trinidad and Tobago. The recognition from the World Travel AwardsTM is expected to significantly boost Port of Spain’s tourism and business sectors. It places the city in the spotlight as a premier destination for conferences, exhibitions, and corporate travel. The ripple effect on local industries such as hospitality, transportation, and food services is anticipated to be substantial. This accolade also encourages further investment in infrastructure and services, ensuring the city remains competitive on a global scale. Port of Spain’s achievement aligns with Trinidad and Tobago’s broader vision for economic diversification and growth. By leveraging its strengths in business tourism, the country is positioning itself as a leader in the Caribbean, capable of competing with global cities. As the city prepares for more international events and continues to build on its success, the future looks promising for Trinidad and Tobago’s business travel industry. Port of Spain’s recognition as the Caribbean’s Leading Business Travel Destination for 2024 underscores its excellence in hosting world-class events and providing unparalleled services for business travelers. This achievement not only elevates the city’s global profile but also sets the stage for continued growth and innovation in Trinidad and Tobago’s tourism and business sectors.Citigroup Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Fabrinet ( NYSE:FN – Free Report ) by 13.9% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 38,115 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,639 shares during the quarter. Citigroup Inc. owned approximately 0.11% of Fabrinet worth $9,012,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. A number of other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. grew its stake in shares of Fabrinet by 14.7% during the third quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 480,550 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $113,621,000 after purchasing an additional 61,491 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its position in Fabrinet by 4.1% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 314,665 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $77,027,000 after buying an additional 12,409 shares during the last quarter. Epoch Investment Partners Inc. increased its stake in shares of Fabrinet by 9.6% in the 2nd quarter. Epoch Investment Partners Inc. now owns 302,006 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $73,928,000 after buying an additional 26,475 shares during the period. Driehaus Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of Fabrinet by 183.5% during the second quarter. Driehaus Capital Management LLC now owns 277,978 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $68,046,000 after acquiring an additional 179,943 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Victory Capital Management Inc. raised its position in shares of Fabrinet by 19.8% during the second quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 236,705 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $57,943,000 after acquiring an additional 39,063 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 97.38% of the company’s stock. Analyst Ratings Changes Several research firms recently issued reports on FN. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on Fabrinet from $240.00 to $285.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, August 20th. Barclays started coverage on shares of Fabrinet in a research note on Thursday, November 14th. They issued an “equal weight” rating and a $292.00 target price on the stock. Needham & Company LLC assumed coverage on shares of Fabrinet in a research note on Tuesday, November 5th. They set a “buy” rating and a $280.00 price target for the company. B. Riley cut shares of Fabrinet from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating and reduced their price objective for the company from $194.00 to $178.00 in a research note on Wednesday, November 20th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities upped their target price on shares of Fabrinet from $260.00 to $280.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, August 20th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $252.14. Fabrinet Stock Performance Shares of NYSE FN opened at $234.65 on Friday. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $244.01 and a 200 day moving average price of $238.01. The stock has a market cap of $8.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.77 and a beta of 0.95. Fabrinet has a 52-week low of $159.30 and a 52-week high of $278.38. Fabrinet ( NYSE:FN – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 4th. The technology company reported $2.39 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.38 by $0.01. The business had revenue of $804.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $771.24 million. Fabrinet had a net margin of 10.28% and a return on equity of 18.08%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 17.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.78 EPS. Analysts predict that Fabrinet will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Insider Transactions at Fabrinet In other news, EVP Edward T. Archer sold 8,690 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $220.26, for a total transaction of $1,914,059.40. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 8,333 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,835,426.58. This represents a 51.05 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink . 0.38% of the stock is currently owned by insiders. Fabrinet Company Profile ( Free Report ) Fabrinet provides optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services in North America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company offers a range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities in the manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, advanced packaging, integration, final assembly, and testing. Featured Articles Want to see what other hedge funds are holding FN? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Fabrinet ( NYSE:FN – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Fabrinet Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Fabrinet and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

Nigerian social media activist, VeryDarkMan (VDM), has responded to actress Iyabo Ojo, involving her daughter, Priscilla, and her partner, Paulo Okoye, in their ongoing feud. The conflict escalated after Iyabo Ojo wrote an emotional message addressing VeryDarkMan. In her note, she described his behavior as troubling and linked it to his upbringing. She claimed his childhood lacked love, care, and stability, leading to what she described as toxic, narcissistic traits. Iyabo further criticized his parents, suggesting his mother lacked independence and initiative, and speculated about issues like infidelity or poor character as contributing factors. Responding in a video message posted on his Instagram page on Friday, VeryDarkMan accused Iyabo Ojo of being unfaithful to Paulo Okoye, alleging it was due to his low libido, and claimed she was with him solely for his wealth. He also made disparaging remarks about Priscilla, alleging she had been promiscuous and predicting she would eventually become a single mother like her mother. READ MORE: Bobrisky Loses Rights Violation Suit Against EFCC, National Assembly VDM went on to claim that Priscilla’s future daughter would follow the same pattern, calling it a “generational curse.” He continued with offensive remarks, suggesting Iyabo’s partner, Paulo, was too old to meet her physical needs, and accused her of pursuing relationships with younger men. He stated, “Till you reach your old age, we dey this matter. The only thing that can save you is if you die. I know you are a very happy woman knowing that Paulo is very old, that will give you a lot of room for young boys. A person like Paulo can’t work on you well; you have a high libido. Everything in his body has shrunk; I am even beginning to believe that that one no dey knack, dem dey knack am. “You are happy that your daughter has brought home a man, and I know she is experienced with the likes of Kesh, you know dem plenty, who has smashed her. She was a pass-around girl. I am not lying and I can swear by anything. You aren’t with Paulo because you like him but for his property. Nigerians make una no put una mouth, just be enjoying it. Nobody can do anything, we have passed that level that they will be using police to arrest. We go dey go court tire, nothing go sub. “If your daughter marries, that marriage can never last. She will end up like you becoming a single mother. She will also give birth to a daughter that will end up like her. It’s a generational thing and I am laying the curse. You’re already cursed, and I am laying more curses”. Watch him speak below... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC9r0prsRgk/?igsh=MWZmYjR0eHp4NTVvcg==Possible Bearish Signals With Blackstone Insiders Disposing Stock

VP Sara Duterte —RICHARD A. REYES Vice President Sara Duterte has tried to justify the existence of her assistance programs as not “duplications” of similar functions of other national government agencies, saying that she was just continuing what one of her predecessors had started. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday in Butuan City, Duterte said that the medical and burial assistance, among others, from the Office of the Vice President (OVP) began under former Vice President Noli de Castro, who served from 2004 to 2010 during the Arroyo administration. “The people got used to the OVP having medical and burial assistance because those programs have been there since the time of Vice President Noli de Castro,” she explained. “Therefore, if the people asked for assistance from us in the government, we can’t just turn them away and say ‘Hey, we apologize, you’re on your own now,’ we can’t just say that,” Duterte said. De Castro, who was involved in public service work as a broadcaster, continued this as a senator and as the second-highest official in the country, providing social assistance and basic needs to the public. The assistance came in the form of aid for medical, educational, burial, employment, transportation, livelihood, housing, and legal problems. The number of aid recipients continued to increase and the coverage expanded to include antipoverty concerns, housing problems, and problems of overseas Filipino workers. In the budget for 2006, the OVP said the bulk of the increase in its budget proposal was for assistance to indigent patients in hospitals, livelihood programs, comprehensive integrated delivery of social service programs, death and funeral benefits of the victims of calamities and other forms of financial assistance. Duterte noted that this was also part of her mandate as vice president under the 1987 Constitution. It was also part of her oath—which is “not to reject people asking for help.” “In my oath-taking, you can clearly see ‘implement laws,’ and I am in the Executive along with the President. This means that I will protect and defend the Constitution. This also means that everything written on the Constitution must be implemented,” she said. The OVP’s assistance to the public was not a duplication “because we are also a government agency that can’t just turn away people seeking assistance,” Duterte said. READ: Sara Duterte’s confidential fund spending raises new, more doubts Lawmakers, particularly from the House of Representatives, have questioned some of the social programs of the OVP similar to those of some government agencies such as the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). This prompted the House of Representatives to reduce Duterte’s proposed P2.03-billion budget for 2025 by P1.3 billion. The funds were realigned to the DOH and the DSWD, leaving the OVP with a budget of only P733.198 million, similar to the budget annually received by her most recent predecessor, former Vice President Leni Robredo. The Senate upheld the budget cuts after Sen. Grace Poe, chair of the Senate committee on finance, said the OVP had not responded to requests for documents that would answer the questions raised over its budget proposal. Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Thursday said the P733 million was already adequate and there was no need to alter it. “As of today, I would vote against adding to the OVP budget ... unless there is really a super, super, super duper good reason that could still convince me,” the Senate deputy minority leader said during the Kapihan sa Senado forum. “At a proper time, I will argue that it is sufficient. Other Vice Presidents in previous administrations have successfully operated with a similar budget level or even less as a matter of fact,” she added. During the Senate plenary deliberations on the OVP’s proposed 2025 budget, senators approved its P733 million outlay, adopting the House version. However, Duterte secured a promise from her allies in the chamber, Senators Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go, to either give additional funding to the OVP or restore the massive cuts during the period of amendments. Poe explained that the P733 million earmarked for the OVP was not yet final as senators may still propose to either increase or decrease it, subject to the body’s approval. According to Hontiveros, she did not change the House version of the proposed funding for the OVP programs, which appear to be a “repetition” of existing programs of other agencies. But Hontiveros said that one expense item that would be hard to justify was the P10 million for the distribution of copies of “Isang Kaibigan,” a children’s book authored by Duterte. “I think it’s important to note that the P10 million for a self-authored book to be distributed is really hard to justify as appropriate,” she said. At a Senate budget hearing in August, Duterte and Hontiveros engaged in a heated exchange over the P10-million allocation for the publication of the book after the latter questioned the propriety of the item tucked in the proposed 2025 budget of the country’s second-highest official. Her query piqued Duterte, who accused Hontiveros of “politicizing” the OVP’s budget request. Despite the massive budget cuts to the OVP next year, Duterte said they would make do with what they will receive, even with the possibility that 200 of her staff might lose their jobs. “But that [200] is just an estimate and I don’t have the exact knowledge on how many would lose their jobs. But definitely, there would be a budget cut and it may include the allocated funds for our personnel’s salaries in case they will be out of work,” she said. Hontiveros said she would ask for the details about the feared job losses to see “if it turns out to be a super duper good reason.” She added that she did not want any government worker to lose employment. —WITH A REPORT FROM INQUIRER RESEARCH Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . READ: Sara Duterte’s secret fund spending ‘a violation twice over’None

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Victoria Don't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. Victoria is bigger, more diverse, and far more dependent on state spending than it was when Labor came to office a decade ago. And while Victorians’ incomes are higher today than they were in 2014, their income has grown more slowly than people in other states, meaning we are relatively poorer to the rest of Australia than we were 10 years ago. The engine of the state’s growth under Labor has been turbocharged and debt-financed infrastructure spending, which began soon after Daniel Andrews took office pledging to remove 50 level crossings across Melbourne. This spending, which saw debt start to rise sharply even before it exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic, has left the state with an enormous interest bill that will soon require repayments of $25m-a-day, as well as the highest taxes in the nation. It has also masked weakness in private sector investment in the state. Daniel Andrews pledged to remove 50 level crossings across Victoria when he took office. Picture: Josie Hayden Victoria’s economy was quite different when Daniel Andrews became premier. Before Labor won the 2014 election all three car makers had announced they would soon leave Australia but Ford, Holden and Toyota were still making cars in Geelong, Broadmeadows and Altona. Other manufacturers soon followed the car makers, including Murray-Goulburn Dairy, General Mills, Buffalo Trident, Nestle, GSK Australia Pharmaceuticals, Advance Bricks, Pavers, Saputo Dairy, Opal Australian Paper, Bosch and Seeley International – some blaming high energy prices on the way out. Before Labor won the 2014 election all three car makers had announced they would soon leave Australia but Ford, Holden and Toyota were still making cars in Geelong. Picture: David Crosling For the past decade Labor’s focus has been its so-called Big Build – a name borrowed from Boston’s Big Dig project of the 1990s – the centrepieces of which included level crossings removals, a Metro Tunnel, a West Gate Tunnel, and more recently, a North East Link. Smaller projects, including 75 new schools, were also jammed into the bulging public sector construction pipeline. The Metro Tunnel and the West Gate Tunnel are more than $8bn over budget in total, while the North East Link has already blown out by $10bn. Going full steam ahead with public sector infrastructure came at a cost, including soaking up industry capacity needed for private sector works such as housing projects, but Daniel Andrews made a virtue of declaring “things cost what they cost”. Debt exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Picture: David Geraghty At the same time the militant construction union the CFMEU was allowed to take control of projects, dictating which companies got work, which in turn opened the door to organised crime and bikies on sites. Early in its first term, the novice Andrews government was plagued by scandal. Corrections Minister Steve Herbert resigned in 2016 after the Herald Sun revealed he’d been using his chauffeur to ferry his dogs Patch and Ted between Melbourne and Trentham, and Labor’s speaker and deputy speaker, Telmo Languiller and Don Nardella, resigned after rorting a taxpayer-funded allowance. The Metro Tunnel and the West Gate Tunnel are more than $8bn over budget in total. Picture: Mark Stewart There were also revelations in the Herald Sun that the ALP had misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in MP allowances to fund a campaign team who wore red shirts during the 2014 state election. But two other issues were commanding most of the premier’s attention, including his decision to tear up contracts for the Napthine government’s East West Link tunnel. Andrews had been nervous about making the pre-election promise to dump the project at the behest of inner city MPs, sweating heavily at a press conference to announce the decision. The CFMEU was allowed to take control of projects, dictating which companies got work, which in turn opened the door to organised crime and bikies on sites. Picture: AFP One of those MPs was Jane Garrett, who Andrews made emergency services minister but soon fell out with United Firefighters Union boss Peter Marshall over demands he be given effective control of the Country Fire Authority. Garrett stood her ground and sided with volunteers who resisted a union takeover, but Andrews sided with Marshall and did a deal. The CFA dispute, which saw CFA board sack and its senior management quit, came in the middle of a federal election campaign that saw Bill Shorten come within a whisker of unseating prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who was left with a one-seat majority. None of it made any political difference, and Andrews was re-elected in a landslide in 2018. Growth in the public sector continued from that point and the economy kept ticking over despite a stark decline in manufacturing, as new arrivals flocked to Victoria. Early in its first term, the novice Andrews government was plagued by scandal, including the resignation of Corrections Minister Steve Herbert. Picture: David Smith But the eruption of Covid-19 and lockdowns that decimated the economy derailed Labor’s plans and put a strain on hospitals that had been papered over prior to the global disaster. Former Labor premier Steve Bracks says the recovery from the pandemic has been strong with Victoria’s economic growth stronger than NSW, Queensland, WA and Tasmania. But economist Saul Eslake points out that per capita household income has dived and sits only narrowly above South Australia and Tasmania. In other words, Mr Eslake told the Herald Sun, “Victorian has become a poor state over the past 10 years”. Jane Garrett stood her ground and sided with volunteers who resisted a union takeover, but Andrews sided with Marshall and did a deal. Picture: David Caird As the state’s finances declined, Labor opted to try to tax its way out of a budgetary hole. Opposition Leader John Pesutto points to 56 new or increased taxes since 2014, while slamming skyrocketing net debt that approaches $188bn. “Victorians are paying among the highest taxes in the nation, services are declining, roads are crumbling, and major projects have blown out by more than $40bn,” he said. Premier Jacinta Allan last week said the government had created a stronger economy, however, pointing to the number of jobs created under the party’s watch. “We have a stronger economy, we have a bigger economy, we have more people in work,” she said. Jacinta Allan says the government has created a stronger economy, pointing to the number of jobs created under Labor’s watch. Picture: Nadir Kinani Ms Allan took the role of Premier after Mr Andrews retired last year, shortly after announcing the contract he struck for the 2026 Commonwealth Games had been ripped up. That decision reverberated around the world, putting a question mark against the state’s sterling reputation for hosting major sporting events. At the same time the reputation for secrecy has been enhanced, from the fallout of the Lawyer X scandal to the suppression of basic information. A hallmark of Mr Andrews’s time in power was his capacity to ignore critics and focus on the things he believed mattered to voters, winning two elections with improved majorities. Since Andrews left office, the scale of spending problems has become clearer, at the same time as voters have been feeling the pinch after a prolonged cost of living crisis. Emeritus Professor of politics at Monash University, Paul Strangio, said once Labor is elected in Victoria it has proven difficult to dislodge, although history had shown – such as during the Cain/Kirner and Bracks/Brumby eras, that “winning a fourth term in 2026 might well be a bridge too far for Labor”. Opposition Leader John Pesutto points to 56 new or increased taxes since 2014, while slamming skyrocketing net debt that approaches $188bn. Picture: Ian Currie He said the current Labor reign was “the most consequential period of Labor governance in the history of the state” due to the supremacy of Daniel Andrews and policy activism, which has ushered in sweeping social reforms including voluntary assisted dying, a drug injecting room and a process to establish a Treaty with Indigenous communities. At the same time, he said, a hapless opposition has allowed Labor to assume the position of a one-party government state. “The overriding question in Victorian politics now and for the next two years is whether the Liberal Party can present as a viable alternative government,” he said. In November, 2026, voters will have the chance to extend Labor’s mortgage over the government in this state, or opt for a fresh direction. Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennet’s report card on the state after 10 years of Labor The Economy Triple F Because the interest payments on our debt are so large every week, it reduces monies available to the government to maintain our services, and taxes. Charges are increasing beyond the capacity of many families and businesses to pay. Law and Order D Sadly Victorians are increasingly concerned about their personal safety and their property. The government are being seen to side with the offenders. Health C+ Should be a given that Victorians can gain access to the best public health facilities which are fully manned. Hospitals should be appropriately funded. Education D If you cannot provide an examination system for those completing their education, what is the point of conducting exams? It reflects on the whole education system. Events and Entertainment B It’s important to keep hope alive as the state sinks into the abyss. It helps divert Victorians for a moment of time from the issues that are causing them pain. Infrastructure F Important, but should be addressed on a rolling basis when the state can afford such expenditure. And this should only be when such expenditure can be professionally managed. Neither have been achieved and it’s a major reason for the debt blow out. Overall F This is the most damaging government in Victorias history. Former Victorian premier Steve Bracks’ report card on the state after 10 years of Labor The Economy B Victoria’s economy is booming because of the Allan Labor government’s investment in vital infrastructure and services. – delivering a strong economy and a better future. Law and Order B The government has strengthened bail laws, reformed the youth justice system and is giving police extra powers to crack down on knife crime and organised criminals. Health B Victoria’s health system is world class. The government has redeveloped and built hospitals across the state. The health services workforce has grown by almost 50 per cent since 2014. Education A Victoria has the best primary school NAPLAN results in the country and has introduced explicit teaching and phonics into every classroom. Events and Entertainment A Our pipeline of iconic, international blockbuster events is the envy of the country. Infrastructure A The government has built new rail lines, sations and roads and removed level crossings, reducing congestion and cutting travel times for millions of Victorians. Overall B Join the conversation Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout More related stories Victoria ‘This will eventually kill you’: Family carries on father’s fatal asbestos fight The family of a “loyal and generous” man claim he died before he could finish his legal fight against the companies responsible for his death. Now they are keeping up the fight. 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