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By TravelPulse (TNS) While 2024 was a year that brought about significant, continued post-pandemic recovery for the travel industry, it was also a period of time marked by instability in some locations around the world. From attacks on the rail lines during the Paris Olympics to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, not to mention the war in Ukraine, the global travel realm in 2024 was fraught with challenges. It is against this backdrop that the international security and medical services provider Global Guardian recently released its 2025 Global Risk Map. Published annually, the map is meant to help travelers better understand the current global risk landscape. In order to develop its guidance, experts at Global Guardian assess a long list of country-specific security risk factors and indicators, including crime, health, natural disasters, infrastructure, political stability, civil unrest and terrorism. For 2025, Global Guardian’s assessment results underscore the reality that disruption globally and domestically continues to increase, and now more than ever travelers need to be prepared when exploring the world. As part of the latest assessment, Global Guardian highlighted a handful of specific global regions that are at particular risk of destabilization over the next year and beyond. Here’s a closer look at those regions, along with insights from Global Guardian CEO Dale Buckner, who recently spoke with TravelPulse at length about the risks travelers may face in 2025. Here are the regions at risk of destabilization in 2025: Israel’s existential battle against Iran is set to continue into 2025, says the Global Guardian report. “In July 2024, Israel assassinated Hamas’ political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) safehouse in Tehran, and Iran has pledged revenge,” the report explains. “This comes as Iran and its web of regional proxies took their war on Israel out of the shadows and into the open following October 7, 2023, with seven live fronts.” Global Guardian also predicts that Israel’s regional war will shift from Gaza to the West Bank and Lebanon in the year ahead, heightening tensions with Hezbollah, while Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean will persist. The report adds that as “we enter 2025, Israel may assess that its strategic window to prevent a nuclear Iran is rapidly closing and choose to act.” The ongoing civil war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is also of concern, according to Global Guardian’s risk analysis. The conflict “has created a dire humanitarian situation with ethnically motivated violence on the rise,” says the report. Some of the areas of concern in the Latin American region include Venezuela and Mexico, according to Global Guardian. The risk in Venezuela is tied to the country’s long-standing territorial dispute with neighboring Guyana, says the report. “Since 2019, the U.S. Department of State withdrew all diplomatic personnel from U.S. Embassy Caracas and suspended all operations,” explains Buckner. “Violent crimes, such as homicide, armed robbery, kidnapping, and carjacking, are common in Venezuela. Shortages of gasoline, electricity, water, medicine, and medical supplies continue throughout much of Venezuela. Simply put, Venezuela is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for Western travelers and should be avoided.” In Mexico, meanwhile, the problems include drug cartel-related violence and theft, among other issues, says the report. Mexico recently inaugurated its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, and like her predecessors she will face challenges “reining in cartel violence, corruption, extortion, theft and kidnapping,” says the report. “As such, security continues to be a top concern in Mexico’ ” says the report, which categorizes Mexico as “high risk” when it comes to travel for 2025. Countries classified as high risk experience regular conflict, criminal activity or civil unrest — and have not effectively managed those risks. The Global Guardian report also suggests there may be heightened risks in Mexico now that Donald Trump has been reelected U.S. president. “Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Mexico could dramatically deteriorate. Trump has promised a mass deportation operation, which could sour relations between the U.S. and Mexico, increasing risks to businesses operating in Mexico,” the report adds. Asked to comment on Mexico’s high-risk designation, Buckner stressed that the situation in the country is extremely nuanced, adding that it’s a vast oversimplification to call the entire country high risk. “There are pockets of Mexico that are wildly safe and wonderful to visit and people shouldn’t hesitate to go,” Buckner told TravelPulse. “And there are also pockets that are unsafe and dangerous.” The good news, added Buckner, is that Mexico’s new president is focusing a great deal of effort and energy on addressing the problems surrounding drug cartels, which are the source of a great deal of the risk. Buckner was quick to add however, that as long as there’s demand for drugs, the drug cartel situation is likely to remain problematic. “The U.S. is driving the drug demand — we consume more drugs then the rest of the world,” explained Buckner. “It’s really overly simplified to paint Mexico as the bad guy, because if there wasn’t demand, we wouldn’t need the supply. But the demand is real and violence comes with that.” Representatives for Global Nexus, a government and public affairs consultancy that advises travel and tourism companies and interests in Southern Mexico, told TravelPulse that while drug-related violence has been known to occur, it involves members of the drug cartel targeting each other, they’re not targeting tourists. “There is an ongoing battle between small drug vendors who use the beach to sell product to tourists hanging out on the beach,” explained Ruben Olmos, Global Nexus president and CEO, in reference to the Quintana Roo region, which is popular with tourists. “There have been cases where gunfire has been exchanged between these groups. They are targeting themselves. They are fighting over ‘This is my beach’ and they initiate a shootout.” However, added Olmos, that the U.S. State Department’s risk categorization for Quintana Roo (which is separate from the Global Guardian risk assessment) has not changed. Located on the State Department’s Mexico page, the risk assessment for Quintana Roo remains in the “Exercise Increased Caution” category, which is below the top risk categories of “Do Not Travel” and “Reconsider Travel.” The Exercise Increased Caution designation means “Be aware of heightened risks to safety and security,” explains the State Department’s website. Olmos also pointed out that Mexico is the only country that has a map on the U.S. State Department website that covers every single state in the country, providing details for travelers about which states are safest. In June 2024, thousands of young people took to the streets in Kenya to protest a controversial tax bill. The protesters were met with heavy-handed policing, including the use of live fire and mass arrests, says the Global Guardian risk report. Despite the local security response, protests continued. The success and tenacity of the Kenyan movement has triggered similar protests or dissent in other countries including Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, and Nigeria, says Global Guardian. That is just a portion of the risk Global Guardian sees for Sub-Saharan Africa over the course of 2025. “With multiple conflicts escalating across the continent, aging leaders leaving behind unclear successions, and entrenched regimes with dissipating legitimacy, Sub-Saharan Africa now looks much like the North African and Arab world in the early 2010s,” says the report. “While the dynamic unfolding in Africa might not yet merit the label of “African Spring,” a significant change to the continent’s political status quo is coming.” Several countries received an extreme or high-risk designation on the new Global Guardian risk map for 2025, including more than a few that are popular with leisure travelers or tourists. Extreme risk countries are those that Global Guardian says are “actively engaged in conflict, while also experiencing severe criminal activity and civil unrest.These countries are insecure; state institutions are too weak to manage militant groups or large-scale disasters.” They include Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Ukraine, West Bank, Gaza and Yemen. The current list of high-risk countries, which are countries that experience regular conflict, criminal activity or civil unrest and have not effectively managed those risks, includes Bangladesh, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Libya, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Uganda, Venezuela Officials from the Jamaica Tourist Board provided a statement to TravelPulse in response to Global Guardian’s designation of the country. “Last month, Global Guardian, a private security provider, released its 2025 Global Risk Map, which included Jamaica, amongst other destinations,” said the Tourist Board. “It is important to note that the crime rate against visitors is notably low at 0.01% and the majority of Jamaica’s tourism product remains unaffected.” The country’s tourism officials added that Jamaica has welcomed 3 million visitors this year and boasts a high repeat visitor rate of 42%. “The island is consistently ranked among the top destinations for international travel and visitors continue to come with confidence to enjoy all that Jamaica has to offer,” the statement adds. When it comes to Jamaica, Buckner offered similar comments to those of Mexico, noting that the situation is impacted by drug-related violence and the experience on the ground is nuanced and cannot be painted with a broad brush. “In the same vein as Mexico — Jamaica can be a wonderful place to visit,” says Buckner. “There are pockets of beauty and low crime and as long as you are careful, it’s a very low threat.” Buckner, a retired Army colonel, maintains that the world is indeed a more risky place heading into 2025. The challenges in the Middle East and Ukraine are at the forefront of the instability, but are hardly the only cause for concern. “Israel has now gone to Gaza and cleaned out Hamas, they’re now moving north into Lebanon, and we are convinced Israel will strike Iran,” Buckner said during an interview that took place prior to Israel’s strike on Iran. “If that occurs you are going to see violence across the Middle East.” “But there are over 100 conflicts across the globe,” continues Buckner. When you combine that reality with other challenges the world is currently grappling with, including the destabilizing influences of climate change, there are plenty of risks for travelers to bear in mind when planning a journey for the coming year. He wraps up by offering a few tips for travelers, a check-list of sorts, to work through when planning or considering travel to a specific country in 2025: — If you don’t know who to call or how you are going to negotiate if someone is kidnapped, you shouldn’t go there. — Consumers need to read the fine print on travel insurance because it does not cover war zones, terrorism or natural disasters, says Buckner. And travelers are often surprised and find out too late that these types of events are not covered. — If you get stuck or stranded, if you don’t know who you are going to call to get you out of that situation, know what organizations locally or internationally are available to help you. ©2024 Northstar Travel Media, LLC. Visit at travelpulse.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.AP Sports SummaryBrief at 5:02 p.m. EST

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Larson Financial Group LLC lowered its holdings in VanEck Gold Miners ETF ( NYSEARCA:GDX – Free Report ) by 65.8% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,509 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 2,905 shares during the period. Larson Financial Group LLC’s holdings in VanEck Gold Miners ETF were worth $60,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. A number of other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the business. Beacon Capital Management LLC raised its holdings in VanEck Gold Miners ETF by 202.4% during the 2nd quarter. Beacon Capital Management LLC now owns 747 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 500 shares during the period. LRI Investments LLC bought a new stake in shares of VanEck Gold Miners ETF during the 1st quarter valued at $28,000. Cedar Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in shares of VanEck Gold Miners ETF by 63.4% during the 2nd quarter. Cedar Wealth Management LLC now owns 874 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $30,000 after purchasing an additional 339 shares during the period. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in VanEck Gold Miners ETF by 53.0% during the 3rd quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC now owns 950 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $38,000 after purchasing an additional 329 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Eagle Bay Advisors LLC boosted its stake in VanEck Gold Miners ETF by 95.8% in the 2nd quarter. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC now owns 1,175 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $40,000 after purchasing an additional 575 shares during the period. VanEck Gold Miners ETF Stock Up 0.6 % Shares of GDX opened at $37.66 on Friday. VanEck Gold Miners ETF has a twelve month low of $25.67 and a twelve month high of $44.22. 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Receive News & Ratings for VanEck Gold Miners ETF Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for VanEck Gold Miners ETF and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .It was the first time the two FIFA best women’s coach of the year winners had gone toe to toe on the touchline, and more than two years since the two top-ranked women’s sides in the world had met at the London venue. Wiegman’s European champions were without a shot on target in the first half, while the visitors had a goal chalked off for offside early in the second half. Hayes’ Olympic gold medallists saw a penalty call reversed after a VAR check, and – though England looked brighter in the second half – Wiegman’s side were never able to find a way through a resolute US defence. Wiegman elected to start Paris St Germain keeper Mary Earps, while Chelsea captain Millie Bright was on the bench for a second straight England encounter. Bright’s former Blues boss Hayes fielded a USA line-up that included seven players who featured when the Americans last played at Wembley on October 7, 2022. US men’s boss Mauricio Pochettino, whose single season in charge of Chelsea overlapped with Hayes’ 12-year tenure at Stamford Bridge, was also in attendance and was spotted catching up with Wiegman and Hayes ahead of kick-off. Jessica Naz looked to get England off to an early start with a cross claimed by Alyssa Naeher, who will retire from international football after the Americans’ European trip. Alyssa Thompson unleashed an effort forcing Earps to leap into action, but the game soon settled, England still looking for a breakthrough when Jess Park directed an effort wide. Alex Greenwood could not connect with Lucy Bronze at the back post from a free-kick, while Emily Fox outpaced her Arsenal team-mate Beth Mead, beating her to a good ball from Bronze following a promising break down the right. The world’s top-ranked side continued to enjoy the possession advantage against their hosts, while clear-cut chances remained elusive. Hayes’ side came marginally closer to opening the scoring when Casey Krueger tested Earps with a low attempt through a crowd just after the half hour, and deadlock remained intact after the England keeper smothered Sam Coffey’s off-balance effort late on in the period. USA captain Lindsey Horan had the ball in the back of the net shortly after the restart but the offside flag was raised. The Americans continued to threaten, first from substitute Yazmeen Ryan’s cross, picked out by Earps, then another attempt from forward Horan. England finally worked the ball deep into the visitors’ half, where Park’s effort was nodded away and Leah Williamson could only head straight at Naeher from the resulting corner. The pace picked up as the hour approached and a more determined England side started to emerge, but remained frustrated by the American defending. Ryan had just Greenwood to beat when she fired a shot into what appeared to be the chest of the Manchester City defender, but referee Lina Lehtovaara initially awarded the visitors a penalty. With VAR available, the Finnish official was called to the monitor and subsequently reversed her decision. Hayes rang more substitutes, while Wiegman’s first changes came in the form of Fran Kirby and Chloe Kelly for Park and Naz in the 75th minute. Mead, surrounded by a trio of blue shirts, sent Naeher leaping, though her attempt looked certain to be wide, and the sides soon had just 10 minutes left to snap the stalemate. 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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Narin An handled the windy conditions with a hot putter on Thursday, making four straight birdies around the turn and finishing with an 8-under 64 for a one-shot lead in the CME Group Tour Championship. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Narin An handled the windy conditions with a hot putter on Thursday, making four straight birdies around the turn and finishing with an 8-under 64 for a one-shot lead in the CME Group Tour Championship. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Narin An handled the windy conditions with a hot putter on Thursday, making four straight birdies around the turn and finishing with an 8-under 64 for a one-shot lead in the CME Group Tour Championship. At stake for the 60-player field is a $4 million prize to the winner, the largest single-day payoff in women’s golf. Nelly Korda already has won more than that during her sterling season of seven wins. Now she faces an eight-shot deficit over the next three days at Tiburon Golf Club if she wants to end her year in fitting fashion. Korda, coming off a victory last week, couldn’t make amends for her three bogeys and had to settle for an even-par 72. She has come from behind in four of her victories, and still has 54 holes ahead of her. But it has made the task that much tougher. Everything felt easy for An, a 28-year-old from South Korea who has never won on the LPGA and has never cracked the top 10 in any of the 16 majors she has played. “Today my putt really good,” An said. “The speed was good and the shape was good. I just try to focus a little bit more.” She had a one-shot lead over Angel Yin, who shot 30 on the back nine, including an eagle on the par-5 17th hole that most players can easily reach in two. Former U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz and Marina Alex were at 66, with Lydia Ko leading the group at 67. Despite the wind so typical along the Gulf Coast of Florida, 27 players — nearly half the field — shot in the 60s. “It’s a good head start for the big ol’ prize we get at the end of the week,” Yin said. Whoever wins this week is assured of breaking the 17-year-old LPGA record for most money earned in season. The record was set by Lorena Ochoa in 2007 at $4,364,994, back when the total prize money was about half of what it is now. Ochoa earned $1 million for winning the Tour Championship in 2007. The opening round followed a big night of awards for the LPGA Tour, where Korda officially picked up her first award as player of the year, which she clinched earlier this month. Ko was recognized for her big year, highlighted by an Olympic gold medal that put her into the LPGA Hall of Fame. She regained plenty of focus for the opening round on a course where she won just two years ago. “The course isn’t easy,” Ko said. “I set a goal of shooting 3 under today, and somebody shot 8 under. I was like, ‘OK, maybe I need to make a few more birdies.’ It’s a course that can get away from you as much as you can shoot some low scores, so I’m just trying to stick to my game plan and go from there.” Also in the group at 67 was Albane Valenzuela of Switzerland, already celebrating a big year with her debut in the Solheim Cup and her first appearance in the Tour Championship. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. She made a late run at her first LPGA title last week at Pelican Golf Club, and kept up her form. And she can see the finish line, which is appealing. “I everyone is looking at that $4 million price tag,” Valenzuela said. “I try not to look too much at the result. I feel like in the past I’ve always been stuck on results, and ultimately all I can do is control my own round, my own energy, my own commitment. “It’s the last week of the year. It’s kind of the bonus week. No matter what, everyone is having a paycheck.” ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf Advertisement AdvertisementResearchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have developed an artificial intelligence model that helps identify depression based on speech and brain neural activity. This offers a new approach to depression diagnosis, according to a press release by KTU. “Depression is one of the most common mental disorders, with devastating consequences for both the individual and society, so we are developing a new, more objective diagnostic method that could become accessible to everyone in the future,” says Rytis Maskeliūnas, a professor at KTU and one of the authors of the invention. The scientists argue that while most diagnostic research for depression has traditionally relied on a single type of data, the new multimodal approach can provide better information about a person’s emotional state. Impressive accuracy The combination of speech and brain activity data achieved an impressive 97.53 percent accuracy in diagnosing depression, significantly outperforming alternative methods. “This is because the voice adds data to the study that we cannot yet extract from the brain,” explains Maskeliūnas. According to Musyyab Yousufi, a PhD student at KTU who contributed to the invention, the choice of data was carefully considered: “While it is believed that, facial expressions might reveal more about a person’s psychological state, but this is quite easily falsifiable data. We chose voice because it can subtly reveal an emotional state, with the diagnosis affecting the pace of speech, intonation, and overall energy.” Moreover, unlike electrical brain activity (EEG) or voice data, face can directly identify a person’s state of severity up to a certain extent. “But we cannot violate patients’ privacy, and also, collecting and combining data from several sources is more promising for further use,” says the professor at KTU Faculty of Informatics (IF). Maskeliūnas emphasises that the EEG dataset used for the research was obtained from the Multimodal Open Dataset for Mental Disorder Analysis (MODMA), as the KTU research group represents computer science and not the medical science field. MODMA EEG data was collected and recorded for five minutes while participants were awake, at rest, and with their eyes closed. In the audio part of the experiment, the patients participated in a question-and-answer session and several activities focused on reading and describing pictures to capture their natural language and cognitive state. AI diagnosis The collected EEG and audio signals were transformed into spectrograms, allowing the data to be visualised. Special noise filters and pre-processing methods were applied to make the data noise-free and comparable, and a modified DenseNet-121 deep-learning model was used to identify signs of depression in the images. Each image reflected signal changes over time. The EEG showed waveforms of brain activity, and the sound showed frequency and intensity distributions. The model included a custom classification layer trained to split the data into classes of healthy or depressed people. In the future, this AI model could speed up the diagnosis of depression, or even make it remote, and reduce the risk of subjective errors. This requires further clinical trials and improvements to the programme. However, Maskeliūnas adds, the latter aspect of the research might raise some challenges. “The main problem with these studies is lack of data because people tend to remain private about their mental health issues,” he says. Another important aspect is getting the algorithm to provide information to a medical professional about what led to the diagnosis. “The algorithm still has to learn how to explain the diagnosis in a comprehensible way,” says Maskeliūnas. According to the KTU professor, due to the growing demand for AI solutions that directly affect people in areas of healthcare, finance, and the legal system, similar requirements are becoming common. This is why explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which aims to explain to the user why the model makes certain decisions and to increase their trust in the AI, is now gaining momentum. The article 'Multimodal Fusion of EEG and Audio Spectrogram for Major Depressive Disorder Recognition Using Modified DenseNet121' was published in Brain Sciences Journal and can be accessed here . Weekly newsletter every Friday

NEW HOPE, Pa. (AP) — Dayle Haddon, an actor, activist and trailblazing former “Sports Illustrated” model who pushed back against age discrimination by reentering the industry as a widow, has died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. Authorities in Bucks County found Haddon, 76, dead in a second-floor bedroom Friday morning after emergency dispatchers were notified about a person unconscious at the Solebury Township home. A 76-year-old man police later identified as Walter J. Blucas of Erie was hospitalized in critical condition. Responders detected a high level of carbon monoxide in the property and township police said Saturday that investigators determined that “a faulty flue and exhaust pipe on a gas heating system caused the carbon monoxide leak.” Two medics were taken to a hospital for carbon monoxide exposure and a police officer was treated at the scene. As a model, Haddon appeared on the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Esquire in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1973 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She also appeared in about two dozen films from the 1970s to 1990s, according to IMDb.com , including 1994’s “Bullets Over Broadway,” starring John Cusack. Haddon left modeling after giving birth to her daughter, Ryan, in the mid-1970s, but then had to reenter the workforce after her husband's 1991 death. This time she found the modeling industry far less friendly: “They said to me, ‘At 38, you’re not viable,’” Haddon told The New York Times in 2003. Working a menial job at an advertising agency, Haddon began reaching out to cosmetic companies, telling them there was a growing market to sell beauty products to aging baby boomers. She eventually landed a contract with Clairol, followed by Estée Lauder and then L’Oreal, for which she promoted the company's anti-aging products for more than a decade. She also hosted beauty segments for CBS’s “The Early Show.” "I kept modeling, but in a different way," she told The Times, “I became a spokesperson for my age.” In 2008, Haddon founded WomenOne, an organization aimed at advancing educational opportunities for girls and women in marginalized communities, including Rwanda, Haiti and Jordan.' Haddon was born in Toronto and began modeling as a teenager to pay for ballet classes — she began her career with the Canadian ballet company Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, according to her website . Haddon's daughter, Ryan, said in a social media post that her mother was “everyone’s greatest champion. An inspiration to many.” “A pure heart. A rich inner life. Touching so many lives. A life well lived. Rest in Light, Mom,” she said.

Mid Minnesota Federal Credit Union (MMFCU) recently promoted Jim Peterson to Loss Prevention Manager. Peterson started at the credit union serving members in the Brainerd office in 2021, and quickly moved into leading the team of tellers at one of our busiest locations. Prior to moving to the Brainerd Lakes Area, Jim’s three-decade career in financial services includes both loans and collections. “I am excited about the previous experience Jim has as well as his ability to build strong relationships with staff and members,” said Jonathan LeMieur, Vice President of Consumer Lending. “Working with our members that find themselves in unexpected circumstances can be difficult at times, but also provides an opportunity to see them through a tough time.” “I am very excited to take on a new role and a new challenge,” said Peterson. “I am going to miss many of the members I have had the pleasure to work with at our Brainerd office.” Mid Minnesota Federal Credit Union is a member owned financial cooperative serving central Minnesota. What sets MMFCU apart from other financial institutions is that our members are owners and have a vested interest in our success. Any profits are returned to our membership in the form of higher dividend rates, lower interest rates on loans, additional technology, and growth in services. MMFCU has 13 locations and participates in CO-OP Shared Branching offering an additional 5,900 locations nationwide. Deposits are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. Learn more at mmfcu.org.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and for the first time, the major social platforms are running big, even full-screen promotions for their own subscription offerings and products within their apps. Which, in some ways, makes perfect sense, maximizing their reach capacity to boost their business. But in others, it feels a little intrusive, and in some cases, even a little desperate. First off, X has started running full-screen pop-up promos for X Premium, which are difficult to even get rid of on screen, due to the “x” in the top left being obscured by the coloring. Yes, X is still super keen to get people to pay to use the app. Despite the app losing users , and despite less than 1% of its audience actually paying for X Premium thus far. Subscriptions had been a key pillar of Elon Musk’s initial growth plan for X , with Musk projecting that X Premium subscriptions (which, at that stage, was called “Twitter Blue”) would rise to 9 million users by this stage of his reformat of the app, bringing in millions of dollars in supplemental revenue. Thus far, around 1.3 million profiles are estimated to have signed up for the program. Musk also projected that X Premium would reach 104 million subscribers by 2028, thereby diluting X’s reliance on ad revenue. And if it still wants to reach those goals, it’s going to need to enact more pushes like this full-screen takeover to maximize awareness. Like, also, X Premium gifting : Look, I don’t think anything is going to get millions more people signing up for X Premium, which is just not that enticing an offering for most at this stage. But X is still keen to make Premium happen, and it’s using whatever means it can in the app to maximize take-up. Meta is also using its valuable ad space to promote its VR headsets, which are the key to its future metaverse ambitions. As you’ve no doubt seen for yourself, right now, Meta is running top-of-feed promotions for Meta Quest, on both Facebook and IG, as it seeks to get more people into its VR experiences. Though similar to X Premium, the hard sell for Meta is that there aren’t that many good reasons to buy a VR headset as yet, as the available experiences just aren’t that compelling. The technology is amazing, and more and more games and features are being rolled out, which will no doubt attract more interest over time. But at this stage, it’s not a must-have tech gadget, with the available VR apps still fairly limited. But either way, exposing ads to billions of users can’t hurt. Finally, Snapchat is also pumping out promotions for Snapchat+, directly into user inboxes. That feels a little intrusive, and all of these promos are a little overbearing, making these apps feel more like shopping tools than social platforms. But they’re also pretty easy to ignore. And in the modern age, we’ve all gotten much better at ignoring the influx of promotions being pumped into our feeds. But it is an interesting shift either way, with the apps becoming more direct commercial entities, and transforming into large-scale advertisers in their own right. And they have access to the most attention-grabbing promo options in their own tools. Which is probably not a great trend, but as social apps look to further commodify their experiences, this may be the new norm.Algert Global LLC lessened its holdings in Accolade, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ACCD – Free Report ) by 46.8% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 188,553 shares of the company’s stock after selling 165,566 shares during the period. Algert Global LLC’s holdings in Accolade were worth $726,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its holdings in Accolade by 1.4% during the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 5,403,256 shares of the company’s stock worth $56,626,000 after purchasing an additional 77,044 shares in the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD raised its position in Accolade by 15.3% in the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 19,540 shares of the company’s stock valued at $205,000 after buying an additional 2,586 shares during the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in Accolade during the 2nd quarter valued at $43,000. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. grew its stake in shares of Accolade by 18.5% in the 2nd quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. now owns 2,011,931 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,203,000 after acquiring an additional 314,371 shares in the last quarter. Finally, ARK Investment Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Accolade by 0.5% in the second quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 5,641,448 shares of the company’s stock valued at $20,196,000 after purchasing an additional 28,405 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 84.99% of the company’s stock. Accolade Price Performance Shares of NASDAQ:ACCD opened at $3.86 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $310.88 million, a PE ratio of -3.75 and a beta of 2.02. The company has a quick ratio of 2.72, a current ratio of 2.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $3.61 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $4.47. Accolade, Inc. has a twelve month low of $3.08 and a twelve month high of $15.36. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades ACCD has been the topic of several analyst reports. Truist Financial cut their price target on shares of Accolade from $9.00 to $7.50 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, October 9th. Canaccord Genuity Group reduced their target price on Accolade from $13.00 to $7.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, October 9th. Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price target on Accolade from $7.00 to $6.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 11th. Stephens cut their price objective on Accolade from $10.00 to $8.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, October 9th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $8.00 target price on shares of Accolade in a research report on Monday, October 7th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $9.04. Check Out Our Latest Report on Accolade Accolade Company Profile ( Free Report ) Accolade, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and provision of personalized and technology-enabled solutions that help people to understand, navigate, and utilize the healthcare system and their workplace benefits in the United States. The company offers a platform with cloud-based intelligent technology and multimodal support from a team of advocates and clinicians, including registered nurses, physician medical directors, pharmacists, behavioral health specialists, women’s health specialists, case management specialists, expert medical opinion providers, and primary care physicians. 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Here are seven critical mistakes you must avoid to protect yourself and build the strongest defense possible. Speaking to Law Enforcement Without an Attorney When you’re charged with a crime, law enforcement will likely want to question you. Even if you’re innocent, it’s vital to resist the urge to explain yourself or try to “clear things up.” Anything you say can and will be used against you in court. This isn’t just a warning – it’s a reality. You might think cooperating fully will demonstrate your innocence, but law enforcement officers are skilled at asking questions designed to trip you up. (In fact, that’s what they’re best at.) You could inadvertently make statements that seem inconsistent or suggest guilt. Instead of speaking, assert your right to remain silent and request an attorney. “There’s a misconception that only guilty people hire a lawyer. But this is a perception that law enforcement likes to continue pushing so that they have a better chance of tripping up suspects,” attorney Brian Walker explains . “Hiring a lawyer on day one is actually one of the smartest things you can do.” Protect yourself by letting your attorney handle communication with law enforcement from the start. Considering the circumstances (and what’s at stake), it’s the best investment you’ll ever make. Discussing Your Case on Social Media It’s very tempting to vent or share details of your situation on social media. However, this can be one of the most damaging mistakes you make. Prosecutors and law enforcement actively monitor social media accounts for evidence, and anything you post can be taken out of context and used against you . This doesn’t just apply to public posts. Private messages, comments, and even deleted posts can sometimes be recovered and presented as evidence in court. Avoid discussing your case online altogether. This includes avoiding vague posts that could be misinterpreted, like “Some people just don’t understand the full story” or “I’m so angry right now.” Assume that anything you post will be brought up on a TV screen for jurors to potentially see during a trial. Instead, keep all discussions about your case strictly between you and your attorney. They are the only ones who can offer guidance on what is safe to share. Talking About Your Case With Friends or Family You might feel the need to confide in loved ones for support, but sharing details about your case with friends or family can backfire. Unlike conversations with your attorney, conversations with others are not protected by attorney-client privilege. This means prosecutors could subpoena your loved ones to testify about what you said. Even well-meaning friends or family members might misunderstand or misinterpret what you share, unintentionally making statements that hurt your case. The best approach is to limit conversations about your case to your legal team. Destroying or Tampering With Evidence If you think hiding, destroying, or altering evidence will help your case, stop right there. Tampering with evidence is a separate crime that can escalate your legal troubles significantly. It’s also a red flag to prosecutors, who may argue that your actions demonstrate guilt. Whether it’s deleting text messages, erasing computer files, or throwing away physical items, any attempt to manipulate evidence can lead to additional charges. Even if the evidence seems incriminating, it’s better to let your attorney handle it. They can assess whether it’s admissible and determine the best course of action. Remember, your attorney is your ally in managing evidence. Be transparent with them about any concerns you have so they can strategize effectively. Missing Court Deadlines The legal process involves strict timelines, and missing deadlines for court appearances, filings, or other requirements can have serious consequences. Failing to appear for a scheduled court date can result in a bench warrant for your arrest. Ignoring deadlines for filing paperwork could weaken your case or lead to a default judgment against you. Your attorney will keep track of these deadlines, but you must stay engaged and proactive. Keep a calendar of important dates, set reminders, and communicate regularly with your legal team. Meeting deadlines shows the court you’re taking the charges seriously and can prevent avoidable setbacks. Ignoring Legal Advice You hired an attorney to guide you through this process, so trust their expertise. It can be tempting to rely on advice from friends, internet forums, or your own instincts, but your lawyer has the training and experience to navigate the legal system in ways others can’t. For example, you might think pleading guilty to a lesser charge is your best option to “get it over with,” but your attorney may recognize a stronger defense strategy that could result in a dismissal or acquittal. Similarly, they’ll know when it’s best to negotiate, file motions, or proceed to trial. By ignoring their advice, you risk making decisions that could undermine your defense. Stay in close communication with your attorney and follow their guidance, even if it feels counterintuitive. Panicking and Losing Focus Facing criminal charges is undeniably stressful, but panicking or making impulsive decisions will only hurt your case. Emotional reactions like anger, fear, or desperation can lead to poor judgment, such as arguing with law enforcement, making incriminating statements, or agreeing to unfavorable plea deals. It’s important to stay as calm and focused as possible. This doesn’t mean ignoring your feelings – it’s natural to feel overwhelmed – but channel that energy into working constructively with your legal team. The more level-headed you remain, the better equipped you’ll be to make decisions that serve your best interests. Lean on your attorney for support and rely on their expertise to guide you through the process. They’ve handled cases like yours and know how to navigate the challenges ahead. Adding it All Up When you’re charged with a crime, what you don’t do can be just as important as what you do. By avoiding the seven mistakes we’ve discussed in this article, you can put yourself in a strong position to have the best defense possible. Good luck! 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Jonathan Levin: In American debt we trust — But for how long?Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin went viral for the messaging advice she offered to Democrats. MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin went on an unprecedented tear against her own network as well as her "Morning Joe" colleagues Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on her podcast, defiantly criticizing her employer's business model and ratcheting up her attacks towards the duo for revealing their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. On Friday's installment of " Jen Rubin's Green Room ," Rubin accused Scarborough and Brzezinski of "forgetting" that their audience "despises Trump" and that viewers wanted them to "hold the line against Trump" instead of engaging with the incoming president. "What were they thinking? Who do they think their audience was?" Rubin asked. "Well, perhaps this wasn't about their audience. Perhaps this was them trying to defend themselves or avoid retribution that they thought was coming their way. But really, these are rich, famous people. What have they got to worry about? It was just an appalling example at how eager so many elites are to fall in line, to curry favor, to deflect attention, to deflect any kind of incoming criticism that might come their way from the White House." MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR FUELS ‘MORNING JOE’ BOYCOTT AFTER TRUMP MEETING: THEY DON'T ‘APPRECIATE’ THEIR AUDIENCE MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin continued lobbing attacks towards her "elite" colleagues Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough over their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images; Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) "So they are getting hammered for it. They are hemorrhaging their audience. And this, of course, only exacerbates the reason and the problem why MSNBC and its other cable networks are being spun off. And that is, cable television is dying," Rubin said. "Most of you probably haven't watched MSNBC since the election either, and not understanding your audience and continuing to serve up the same chewed-over talking points with the same panels, essentially same program day, after day, after day, hour after hour, is no longer working. So Comcast has said, 'Fine, spin you off. You guys go fend for yourselves. And the question after the spin-off is completed will be whether that's a viable business model. Can they afford to pay Rachel Maddow, God bless her, 20 plus million dollars a year? Is there advertising to support that? Are there cable fees to support that? We don't know. We don't know if MSNBC, a year from now, is gonna exist, or whether it's gonna be in some slim down fashion." WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST CLAIMS ‘REPUBLICANS WANT TO KILL YOUR KIDS: ’IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE' Rubin, also a Washington Post columnist, went on by offering suggestions on how MSNBC can "rethink their model." "Get rid of the pattern of chewing over the same three or four stories all day long with a shuffling of panelists all parroting back the same line to the host, this is not working. It's boring. It's not good TV. They need to do something else, and they should look to models that are successful," Rubin said. "They should look to people like The Onion. Hey, they've purchased Info Wars. I can't wait to watch what they're gonna program. They should look to shows that, yes, are perhaps lighter on the news, but actually have much more information than they do." Rubin took several swipes at her employer MSNBC on her podcast. (Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images) She went on to say that viewers "get more from a John Oliver monologue" than they do "from a day or two of watching CNN or MSNBC." "And by the way, I'm an MSNBC contributor," Rubin reminded her liberal audience. "At least I have the honesty, I have the candor, to tell you this is not gonna work, and this is not continuing to work. And what's more, by hanging on to these legacy outlets that are failing, I think Democrats fail to explore other options. They fail to look for other avenues to communicate with the public. They are relying on dying outlets in a dying industry, cable TV news, and they have to be way more innovative, way more creative in figuring out ways to reach people, including people who don't like politics all that much, and that's the big challenge. Those were the people who, frankly, went along voting for Trump because they did not know too much about what he had in mind and what he had planned, and really his threat to their well-being." MSNBC'S FUTURE A ‘BIG CONCERN’ FOR STAFFERS AS COMCAST MOVES TO SEPARATE LIBERAL NETWORK FROM NBCUNIVERSAL "So I think once we get past a stage in which we are doing the same thing over and over again, otherwise known as the definition of insanity- if you expect a different result, then perhaps we can experience some innovation, and maybe we can expect something better from news... But you know one thing, you can always come here, because I'm gonna tell you what I think. I'm gonna be provocative... We're gonna tell the truth. We're gonna talk to you. I want to hear from you, because unlike Mika and Joe, I care about my audience, and I wanna hear what you think," Rubin added. Rubin did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital 's request for comment. A spokesperson for MSNBC declined to comment. Rubin said viewers "get more from a John Oliver monologue" than they do "from a day or two of watching CNN or MSNBC." (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) While Rubin is currently urging MSNBC to get rid of the formula of "panelists all parroting back the same line to the host," she was notably vocal against NBC's hiring of former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel (she was fired following swift backlash from the network's liberal stars). Ruben previously fueled a boycott against "Morning Joe." "The market works great. You can stop watching Morning Joe anytime," Rubin wrote on social media Monday. She then added on the social media site BlueSky :, "On MJ: If you don't appreciate the audience you have, betray that audience and lose their trust you are [going] to lose lots of them. I have seen this movie." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Rubin was also outspoken against her other employer The Washington Post and its billionaire over Jeff Bezos over his decision to halt the paper's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris just days before the election. "First of all, I do not believe the reason stated. I don't believe they have suddenly decided— he has suddenly decided that we should endorse everybody except presidential candidates, and that of all the elections, this is the one to start with this new policy," Rubin said on her podcast last month . "We endorsed a presidential candidate in 2020 no problem. And I perceive this, and even if it's not intended, it is inevitably perceived as bending the knee to Donald Trump at the worst possible moment when democracy is on the line." "You have a billionaire who has a business aside from the Post that does business with the federal government deciding not to run afoul of a man who has declared war on democracy and on the free press, and I still find it absolutely inconceivable that someone who owns a newspaper would do this," she continued." Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the Jan. 6, 2021 , U.S. Capitol attack, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was committed to holding accountable all perpetrators “at any level” for “the assault on our democracy.” That bold declaration won't apply to at least one person: Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith's move on Monday to abandon the federal election interference case against Trump means jurors will likely never decide whether the president-elect is criminally responsible for his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 campaign. The decision to walk away from the election charges and the separate classified documents case against Trump marks an abrupt end of the Justice Department’s unprecedented legal effort that once threatened his liberty but appears only to have galvanized his supporters. The abandonment of the cases accusing Trump of endangering American democracy and national security does away with the most serious legal threats he was facing as he returns to the White House. It was the culmination of a monthslong defense effort to delay the proceedings at every step and use the criminal allegations to Trump's political advantage, putting the final word in the hands of voters instead of jurors. “We always knew that the rich and powerful had an advantage, but I don’t think we would have ever believed that somebody could walk away from everything,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department official. “If there ever was a Teflon defendant, that’s Donald Trump.” While prosecutors left the door open to the possibility that federal charges could be re-filed against Trump after he leaves office, that seems unlikely. Meanwhile, Trump's presidential victory has thrown into question the future of the two state criminal cases against him in New York and Georgia. Trump was supposed to be sentenced on Tuesday after his conviction on 34 felony counts in his New York hush money case , but it's possible the sentencing could be delayed until after Trump leaves office, and the defense is pushing to dismiss the case altogether. Smith's team stressed that their decision to abandon the federal cases was not a reflection of the merit of the charges, but an acknowledgement that they could not move forward under longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Trump's presidential victory set “at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: On the one hand, the Constitution’s requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities . . . and on the other hand, the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. The move just weeks after Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris underscores the immense personal stake Trump had in the campaign in which he turned his legal woes into a political rallying cry. Trump accused prosecutors of bringing the charges in a bid to keep him out of the White House, and he promised revenge on his perceived enemies if he won a second term. “If Donald J. Trump had lost an election, he may very well have spent the rest of his life in prison,” Vice President-elect JD Vance, wrote in a social media post on Monday. “These prosecutions were always political. Now it’s time to ensure what happened to President Trump never happens in this country again.” After the Jan. 6 attack by Trump supporters that left more than 100 police officers injured, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and several other Republicans who voted to acquit Trump during his Senate impeachment trial said it was up to the justice system to hold Trump accountable. The Jan. 6 case brought last year in Washington alleged an increasingly desperate criminal conspiracy to subvert the will of voters after Trump's 2020 loss, accusing Trump of using the angry mob of supporters that attacked the Capitol as “a tool” in his campaign to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and obstruct the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory. Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters — many of whom have said they felt called to Washington by Trump — have pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries of federal charges at the same courthouse where Trump was supposed to stand trial last year. As the trial date neared, officials at the courthouse that sits within view of the Capitol were busy making plans for the crush of reporters expected to cover the historic case. But Trump's argument that he enjoyed absolute immunity from prosecution quickly tied up the case in appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution , and sent the case back to the trial court to decide which allegations could move forward. But the case was dismissed before the trial court could got a chance to do so. The other indictment brought in Florida accused Trump of improperly storing at his Mar-a-Lago estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, enlisting aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showing off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case in July it on grounds that Smith was illegally appointed . Smith appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but abandoned that appeal on Monday. Smith's team said it would continue its fight in the appeals court to revive charges against Trump's two co-defendants because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” In New York, jurors spent weeks last spring hearing evidence in a state case alleging a Trump scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. New York prosecutors recently expressed openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump's second term, while Trump's lawyers are fighting to have the conviction dismissed altogether. In Georgia, a trial while Trump is in office seems unlikely in a state case charging him and more than a dozen others with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The case has been on hold since an appeals court agreed to review whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had hired to lead the case. Associated Press reporter Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed.

Larson Financial Group LLC raised its position in shares of Southern Copper Co. ( NYSE:SCCO – Free Report ) by 578.3% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 407 shares of the basic materials company’s stock after buying an additional 347 shares during the period. Larson Financial Group LLC’s holdings in Southern Copper were worth $47,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. A number of other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of SCCO. Ensign Peak Advisors Inc increased its stake in Southern Copper by 1.0% during the 2nd quarter. Ensign Peak Advisors Inc now owns 10,558 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $1,138,000 after buying an additional 108 shares during the period. Prudential PLC increased its position in shares of Southern Copper by 1.0% during the second quarter. Prudential PLC now owns 10,667 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $1,149,000 after acquiring an additional 109 shares during the period. Tyche Wealth Partners LLC raised its stake in shares of Southern Copper by 0.6% in the third quarter. Tyche Wealth Partners LLC now owns 19,685 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $2,277,000 after acquiring an additional 109 shares in the last quarter. Greenwood Capital Associates LLC raised its stake in shares of Southern Copper by 0.7% in the third quarter. Greenwood Capital Associates LLC now owns 15,722 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $1,819,000 after acquiring an additional 112 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Inspire Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in Southern Copper by 3.9% in the third quarter. Inspire Advisors LLC now owns 3,001 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $347,000 after purchasing an additional 113 shares during the period. 7.94% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Southern Copper Stock Performance Shares of Southern Copper stock opened at $100.35 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $78.83 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.84, a P/E/G ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a quick ratio of 2.31, a current ratio of 2.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64. Southern Copper Co. has a 52 week low of $70.92 and a 52 week high of $129.79. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $110.08 and its two-hundred day moving average is $108.49. Southern Copper Dividend Announcement Wall Street Analyst Weigh In SCCO has been the topic of several recent research reports. Citigroup upped their price target on Southern Copper from $99.44 to $100.00 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 2nd. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on shares of Southern Copper from $97.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, September 19th. Finally, Scotiabank decreased their price target on shares of Southern Copper from $54.00 to $52.00 and set a “sector underperform” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has assigned a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $90.63. Check Out Our Latest Stock Analysis on Southern Copper Southern Copper Company Profile ( Free Report ) Southern Copper Corporation engages in mining, exploring, smelting, and refining copper and other minerals in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, and Chile. The company is involved in the mining, milling, and flotation of copper ore to produce copper and molybdenum concentrates; smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper; refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes; production of molybdenum concentrate and sulfuric acid; production of refined silver, gold, and other materials; and mining and processing of zinc, copper, molybdenum, silver, gold, and lead. Featured Articles Receive News & Ratings for Southern Copper Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Southern Copper and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .US coach Emma Hayes admits to anthem uncertainty ahead of England stalemate