BENSALEM, Pa., April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against NET Power Inc. ("Net Power" or the "Company") (NYSE: NPWR).

IF YOU ARE AN INVESTOR WHO SUFFERED A LOSS IN NET POWER INC. (NPWR), CONTACT THE LAW OFFICES OF HOWARD G. SMITH BEFORE JUNE 17, 2025 (LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE) TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ONGOING SECURITIES FRAUD LAWSUIT.

Contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss your legal rights by email at howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, by telephone at (215) 638-4847 or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.

LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP announces that investors with losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Maravai LifeSciences Holdings, Inc. ("Maravai" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MRVI).

IF YOU SUFFERED A LOSS ON YOUR MARAVAI INVESTMENTS, CLICK HERE BEFORE MAY 5, 2025 (LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE) TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECURITIES FRAUD LAWSUIT

Shareholders with losses of $50,000 or more are encouraged to contact the firm. 

LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP announces that investors with losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against SoundHound AI, Inc. ("SoundHound" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SOUN).

IF YOU SUFFERED A LOSS ON YOUR SOUNDHOUND INVESTMENTS, CLICK HERE BEFORE MAY 27, 2025 (LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE) TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECURITIES FRAUD LAWSUIT

 

30 April 2025

 

 

 

LONDON FINANCE & INVESTMENT GROUP PLC

(Incorporated in England with registered number 00201151)

LSE code: LFI

JSE code: LNF

ISIN: GB0002994001

("Lonfin" or the "Company")

 

 Change of Date of Suspension of Shares on the

London Stock Exchange

 

 

Further to the announcement released on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, Lonfin confirms that its shares will not be suspended with effect from Thursday 1st May 2025 and the trading of shares shall continue as normal.

A new timetable providing the updated dates regarding the withdrawal of shares from the stock exchange and repayment of capital to shareholders will be announced shortly.

 

The Independent Directors accept responsibility for the contents of this announcement.

 

 

Enquiries:

 

London Finance & Investment Group PLC

 

Tel:  +44 (0) 20 3709 8740

Beaumont Cornish Limited

Roland Cornish/Felicity Geidt

 

Questco Corporate Advisory PTY Ltd

Tel:  +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

 

 

Tel: +27 (0) 82 786 3537

 

 

 

 

FIDELITY EMERGING MARKETS LIMITED (the 'Company')

 

 

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800HWWQPUJ4K1GS84

 

 

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

 

 

The Board of the Company announces that it has bought into Treasury.

 

 

Number of shares repurchased:

60,000

Date of transaction:

30 April 2025

Average share price paid per share (GBp):

699.750

Lowest share price paid per share (GBp):

697.000

Highest share price paid per share (GBp):

700.000

 

 

Following this transaction the Company has:

 

 

Issued Share Capital:

77,568,185

Total Shares held in Treasury:

10,950,925

Total Voting Rights:

66,617,260

 

 

Notes:

 

1. The above total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

 

2. The Company's issued share capital held in Treasury attract no voting rights.

 

 

Contact:

 

George Bayer

 

For and on behalf of FIL Investments International

Company Secretary

 

020 7961 4240

 

 

 For immediate release

30 April 2025

CAPITAL GEARING TRUST P.L.C.

LEI: 213800T2PJTPVF1UGW53

 

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

 

Capital Gearing Trust P.l.c. (the "Company") today purchased a total of 13,301 of its own Ordinary shares at an average price of 4804.80 pence per share, to be held in Treasury.

 

Following the transaction, the Company's share capital comprises:

17,797,414 Issued Ordinary Shares (excluding Treasury shares)

8,782,849 Ordinary shares held in Treasury

26,580,263 Issued Ordinary Shares (including Treasury shares)

 

The figure of 17,797,414 which is the total number of voting rights in the Company following the transaction, may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they may determine if they are required to notify their interest, or change to their interest, in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Frostrow Capital LLP

Company Secretary

Email: company.secretary@capitalgearingtrust.com

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust plc

 

Market Purchase by the Company of its own Ordinary Shares

 

The Board of Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust plc ("ASCoT") hereby gives notification that, pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 6 March 2025 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares, a market purchase of 15,000 Ordinary shares of the Company was made on 30 April 2025, at a price of 1,366.6667p per share.

 

Following the purchase and cancellation of the above shares, 82,148,105 Ordinary shares will remain in issue. A total of 511,000 Ordinary shares have been purchased and cancelled under the above authority.

 

For further information contact: Michael Campbell, Aberforth Partners LLP,

telephone: 0131 220 0733.

 

Aberforth Partners LLP, Secretaries

 

END

 

30 April 2025

 

Rightmove plc

Share buy-back programme

Rightmove plc – transactions in own shares

 

Rightmove plc (‘Rightmove’), announces that today it purchased 178,194 of its 0.1p ordinary shares at a volume weighted average price paid per share of 740.848p. The highest price paid per share was 746.200p and the lowest price paid per share was 735.200p. Rightmove purchased these shares through UBS AG London Branch.

 

The number of shares purchased represented 0.0229% of the voting rights attributable to the total ordinary shares in issue prior to such purchase. The purchased shares will be cancelled.

 

Since announcing a share buy-back programme on 28 December 2007, Rightmove has purchased in aggregate 530,135,440 ordinary shares.

 

The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) following this announcement is 778,101,024. Rightmove holds 10,817,616 shares in treasury.

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) as amended by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the ‘UK MAR’), the schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by UBS AG London Branch on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

 

Contact: Carolyn Pollard, Company Secretary 

CompanySecretary@rightmove.co.uk

 

Schedule of Purchases – Individual Transactions

 

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price (per share)

Time of transaction

Quantity

Price

Execution Time

194

739.400

16:15:02

101

737.800

16:08:42

777

737.800

16:08:42

163

737.000

16:07:26

708

737.000

16:07:26

125

737.600

16:06:34

620

737.600

16:06:34

668

737.800

16:05:52

726

737.800

16:05:52

194

737.800

16:04:25

315

737.800

16:04:25

633

737.600

16:03:29

48

737.400

16:02:30

300

737.400

16:01:54

100

737.400

16:01:54

322

737.400

16:01:54

91

737.200

16:01:38

550

737.400

16:01:26

35

737.200

16:01:13

136

737.000

16:01:06

440

737.200

16:00:44

550

737.200

16:00:44

300

737.200

16:00:44

100

737.200

16:00:44

83

737.200

16:00:44

203

737.200

16:00:38

98

736.600

15:59:53

100

736.600

15:59:53

94

736.600

15:59:52

107

736.600

15:59:52

781

736.200

15:59:32

107

736.600

15:55:21

285

736.600

15:55:11

321

736.600

15:55:11

651

736.800

15:53:55

642

736.600

15:51:44

714

737.000

15:50:45

757

737.200

15:49:43

702

737.000

15:48:12

637

737.200

15:46:08

836

737.200

15:46:08

724

737.200

15:46:08

93

736.800

15:43:32

767

736.400

15:43:19

707

736.200

15:42:39

99

736.600

15:40:37

100

736.600

15:40:37

27

736.600

15:40:37

550

736.600

15:40:37

230

736.600

15:40:37

468

DUBLIN, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap" or the "Company") (NYSE: AER) today announced it has filed an interim financial report including its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). AerCap's Form 6-K can be accessed on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at www.aercap.com, as well as on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

About AerCap

TP will integrate agentic AI solutions from emerging tech leaders Ema and Parloa to help clients combine and scale agentic AI with human experts to advance intelligent orchestration of AI and emotional intelligence across customer experience and back-office services.

NEW YORK and PARIS, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global digital services leader TP today announced partnerships with emerging leaders in agentic artificial intelligence (AI), Ema and Parloa. These partnerships advance TP's goal of delivering a steady pipeline of AI innovations that help clients accelerate AI adoption, enhance customer engagement, and realize value faster across their front-office and back-office activities.

CHICAGO, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) held its annual meeting of shareholders virtually today. Chairman and CEO D.G. Macpherson provided a company update, which included 2024 financial and operational highlights.

Shareholders elected the following 12 directors:

Rodney C. Adkins

Neil S. Novich

George S. Davis

Beatriz R. Perez

Katherine D. Jaspon

E. Scott Santi

Christopher J. Klein

Susan Slavik Williams

D.G. Macpherson

Lucas E. Watson

Cindy J. Miller

Steven A. White

CHICAGO, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) announced today that its board of directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $2.26 per share, an increase of 10% from the most recent company dividend. The dividend is payable on June 1, 2025, to shareholders of record on May 12, 2025.

"2025 is on track to be our 54th consecutive year of increased dividends, upholding Grainger's long-standing commitment to our shareholders. This increase reinforces our ability to continue investing in the business while also returning excess cash to shareholders," said D.G. Macpherson, Grainger Chairman and CEO.

VANCOUVER, BC, April 30, 2025 /CNW/ - Trading resumes in:

Company: Argo Corporation 

TSX-Venture Symbol: ARGH

All Issues: Yes

Resumption (ET): 11:45 AM

CIRO can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension (halt) of trading in a security of a publicly-listed company. Trading halts are implemented to ensure a fair and orderly market. CIRO is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada.

SOURCE Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) – Halts/Resumptions

USA News Group News Commentary

Issued on behalf of Lake Victoria Gold Ltd.

VANCOUVER, BC, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- USA News Group News Commentary – Gold's ongoing rally is setting the stage for a potential breakout in mining stocks, according to analysts. Billionaire investor John Paulson has drawn fresh attention to the sector, recently backing an Alaskan gold mine with an $800-million investment, marking a bold move amid rising volatility. Trade tensions stirred by the U.S. White House have added fuel to the rally, propelling the Top 50 mining stocks group higher. Among the companies making waves with new developments are Lake Victoria Gold (TSXV: LVG) (OTCQB: LVGLF), Perseus Mining Limited (TSX: PRU) (OTCPK: PMNXF), Mandalay Resources Corporation (TSX: MND) (OTCQB: MNDJF), Aya Gold & Silver Inc. (TSX: AYA) (OTCQX: AYASF), and Goliath Resources Limited (TSXV: GOT) (OTCQB: GOTRF).

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Annual Financial Report

British & American Investment Trust PLC Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2024 Registered number: 00433137 Directors Registered office David G Seligman (Chairman) Wessex House Jonathan C Woolf (Managing Director) 1 Chesham Street Alex Tamlyn (Non-executive) Telephone: 020 7201 3100 Julia Le Blan (Non-executive and Chair of the Audit Committee) Registered in England No.00433137 30 April 2025

This is the Annual Financial Report as required to be published under DTR 4 of the UKLA Listing Rules.

Financial Highlights

For the year ended 31 December 2024

2024  

2023  

Revenue return Capital return Total Revenue return Capital return Total £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 Profit/(loss) before tax – realised 438 (690) (252) 797 (585) 212 Profit/(loss) before tax – unrealised – 2,270 2,270 – (2,196) (2,196) __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ Profit/(loss) before tax – total 438 1,580 2,018 797 (2,781) (1,984) __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ Earnings per £1 ordinary share – basic* 0.49p 6.32p 6.81p 1.86p (11.12)p (9.26)p __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ Earnings per £1 ordinary share – diluted* 0.49p 4.51p 5.87p 1.86p (11.12)p (9.26)p __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ Net assets 5,953 4,512 __________ __________ Net assets per ordinary share – deducting preference shares     at fully diluted net asset value** 17p 13p __________ __________ – diluted 17p 13p __________ __________ Diluted net asset value per ordinary share at 25 April 2025 3p __________ Dividends declared or proposed for the period: per ordinary share – interim paid 1.75p 1.75p – final proposed 0.0p 0.0p per preference share 1.75p 1.75p

*Calculated in accordance with International Accounting Standard 33 ‘Earnings per Share’. The cumulative convertible non-redeemable preference shares are anti-dilutive relating to the calculation of diluted EPS on the revenue return (Note 3).

**Basic net assets are calculated using a value of fully diluted net asset value for the preference shares.

Chairman’s Statement

I report our results for the year ended 31 December 2024. 

Revenue

The return on the revenue account before tax amounted to £0.4 million (2023: £0.8 million), a lower level than in the previous year due to a lower level of dividends received from our subsidiary company. The bulk of this revenue was accounted for by dividends received from our subsidiary company arising from gains and income related to our US investments.

Gross revenues totalled £0.9 million (2023: £1.3 million). In addition, film income of £112,000 (2023: £74,000) was received in our subsidiary company. In accordance with IFRS10, this income stream is not included within the revenue figures noted above because consolidated financial statements are not prepared.

The total return before tax, comprising revenue and capital return, amounted to a profit of £2.0 million (2023: £2.0 million loss), representing net revenue of £0.4 million, a realised loss of £0.7 million and an unrealised gain of £2.3 million. The revenue return per ordinary share was 0.5p (2023: 1.9p) on an undiluted basis.

Net Assets and Performance

Net assets at the year end were £6.0 million (2023: £4.5 million), an increase of 31.9 percent after payment of £0.6 million in dividends to shareholders during the year. This compares to an increase in the FTSE 100 index of 5.7 percent and to an increase in the UK All Share index of 5.6 percent over the period. On a total return basis, after adding back dividends paid during the year, our net assets increased by 45.5 percent compared to increases of 9.7 percent and 9.5 percent in the FTSE 100 and UK All Share indices, respectively.

This substantial outperformance for the year as a whole more than reversed the underperformance of the previous year despite falling from the exceptional outperformance of over 100 percent registered at the half year. These results were due almost entirely to the significant recovery of 70 percent in the value of our largest investment, Geron Corporation, over the year as a whole.  As reported at the interim stage, this reflected the long-awaited achievement by Geron of clearance by the US FDA of its haematological cancer drug, Rytelo, its first such approval, on 7th June last year. Following which Geron immediately commenced the marketing in the USA generating sales in line with expectations in the third and fourth quarters of the year. This represents a significant milestone in our long history of investment in this company which has proved to be a long and often difficult road given the elevated levels of volatility experienced in both the individual stock price and biopharma market as a whole.  A more detailed description of the performance of Geron is given in the Managing Director's report below.

Equity markets in the UK and USA performed firmly in 2024, as inflationary pressures subsided in response to central bank interest rate policies which had kept rates higher for longer than had been anticipated, particularly in the USA.  Inflation had proved to be more stubborn than expected in the USA and this was in part due to the effects of the Biden administration’s albeit very successful policy of stimulating growth and activity in infrastructure and environmental investment. These higher levels of corporate activity also resulted in the steady increase in the value of US equities over the year, with the indices rising by 20 percent and surpassing their all time highs throughout the year as they rose.  In the UK, the equity market showed a similar performance in the first half, rising by 10 percent, as growth returned to the economy but remained flat thereafter. This followed the change in government in July and its policy of talking down the UK’s economic prospects to prepare the ground for a hard-hitting budget in the autumn. This had the unfortunate effect of killing business and consumer confidence which by the fourth quarter had translated into monthly declines in GDP. In my interim statement, I described at length the likely damaging effects of the labour government’s economic approach and policies and I will not repeat these here. However, the introduction a record-breaking tax and spend budget and other legislation since then which placed significant extra tax and operational burdens on the corporate sector has only added to my previous comments about the government’s much vaunted but misdirected promises and policies to achieve economic growth. Unfortunately the inevitable outcome of these policies is already beginning to be seen in the reversal of growth and record levels of taxation, government spending and borrowing.  A further blow to UK and indeed world-wide growth prospects has occurred in the first quarter of 2025 with the introduction of Trump’s international trade tariffs as more fully described in recent events below.

Dividend

In 2024, dividends of 1.75 pence per ordinary share and 1.75 pence per preference share were paid as an interim payment during the year. This was the same level of dividend for ordinary and preference shareholders as in the previous year and represented a yield of approximately 6 percent on the ordinary share price averaged over a period of 12 months.

It is our intention to pay an interim dividend this year of no less amount contingent on the profitable sales of investments during the year. The position regarding these investments is set out in more detail in the Managing Director’s report below.

Recent events and outlook

As explained in considerably more detail in the Managing director’s report below, 2025 has to date brought a totally unexpected reversal in the advances the portfolio experienced in 2024 due to an unexpected and significant fall in the share price of Geron in the last two months which has negatively impacted our portfolio value.  We believe this reversal to be temporary and that the portfolio will regain its value of the previous year for the reasons set out in that report.

The perceived economic and business uncertainties going forward in the UK have been discussed at length above and in our interim report.  Since when, however, a major new source of uncertainty has arisen with the election last November of President Trump in the USA on the promise of a radical programme of change and indeed disruption across almost all areas of domestic political, economic, social and financial policy as well as globally in terms of trade, defence and international relations. 

The initial market reaction to his promises to reduce the costs of living and inflation, cut taxes and promote business was positive and the equity market and US dollar strengthened further in the last two months of 2024.  However, this reaction soon dissipated after the new administration took office in mid January. 

It had been expected that some of Trump’s more extreme plans - for example to slash the costs of government administration, abolish entire government departments and introduce penal international trade tariffs on goods - were intended more as a negotiating tactic rather than firm strategy, given Trump’s tendency to use extreme policy announcements as a crude lever and then change course abruptly to achieve quick commercial gains.  However, this has not been the case and if anything has been doubled down upon as seen by the mass and indiscriminate layoffs of government employees, the nonchalant shedding of age-old alliances and earlier this month the imposition of a far harsher than expected regime of international trade tariffs on goods imported from all other countries. 

The accumulation of all these disruptive and damaging policies, many of which upend long-established economic, defence and trade arrangements which have underpinned global prosperity and security as long as most people can remember, has resulted in extreme levels of uncertainty since the beginning of the year causing significant falls or re-alignments in all markets, be they financial, investment, currency, commodity, employment or trade, whether in the USA or worldwide.

It is too early to say how these unprecedented policy changes in the USA will play out over time, save to say that in the short to medium term increases in inflation, slower reductions in interest rates and lower levels of economic growth and therefore investment markets can be expected.  For these reasons and the continuing high levels of unc

Landmark pilot brings on-demand, fully electric, Smart Routing™ transit system to one of Canada's fastest-growing cities

TORONTO, April 30, 2025 /CNW/ - Argo Corporation (TSXV: ARGH) (OTCQX: ARGHF), leader in next-generation transit solutions, today signed and announced a $10.9 million 12-month pilot with the City of Brampton to deploy its fully electric Smart Routing™ transit system. Launching this summer, Brampton residents will be able to request on-demand rides near their door – all for a standard fare – with seamless transfers into Brampton Transit and GO Transit networks.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyber Enviro-Tech, Inc. (OTCQB: CETI) announced today that it is conducting critical testing of its advanced water purification technology for the oil and gas industry. If successful, the results could lead to contracts potentially valued at over $100 million annually, as referenced in the Company's April 17, 2025 press release.

Produced water — a byproduct of oil and gas extraction — typically contains high concentrations of salts, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and other contaminants, making it one of the most difficult industrial wastewaters to treat. CETI's testing aims to demonstrate the ability to purify this highly contaminated water, reducing Total Dissolved Solids levels from 300,000 parts per million to the Environmental Protection Agency standard of 500 ppm.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Appier, a global AI-native AdTech and MarTech company, announced its successful collaboration with L'Oréal on the AI-powered transformation of SkinCeuticals' e-commerce platform, showcasing a full-funnel, data-driven strategy that delivered measurable results and set a new benchmark for AI in the beauty e-commerce sector.

Powered by Appier's Ad Cloud and Personalization Cloud, and in partnership with Omnicom Media Group (OMG),  L'Oréal significantly enhanced SkinCeuticals' marketing performance, achieving a 152% quarter-over-quarter increase in ROAS, a 400% uplift in CVR among hesitant users, and a 48% boost in total on-site revenue.