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sage-studies · 3 years

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Tag 9 people to learn about their interests!

Thanks for the tag @the---hermit!

MUSIC

Favourite genre?

I also grew up listening to metal/rock, so a lot of my music taste comes from that but I don't really have a favourite genre, I just like music that has a lot of energy to it

Favourite song?

I honestly can never pick a favourite song, I always have like 20 at a time. Tho my favourite new release is Tom Cardy's new album that he put out yesterday

Most listened song recently?

Jubilee Line - Wilbur Soot (I've just been listening to the whole album on repeat lately, as well as Lovejoy's ep)

Song currently stuck in your head?

Monster Truck - Tom Cardy

5 fave lyrics?

'A man delivered can never find his way in darkness, a man surrendered can never find his own forgiveness.' (Cardiff - Stone Sour)

Pretty much all of the lyrics in Trust Me Not - Backseat Vagabond

'You belong in a museum, where the normal people see you, cameras flash, they pay attention... We talk about angels like they don't exist, but how can I deny looking up at this?' (Venus - Saint Street)

'Can't help but smile when I'm sitting here beside her, she smells like cigarettes and cheap apple cider.' (Cheap Apple Cider - Saint Street)

BOOKS

Favourite book series?

Probably Vampire Academy or the Iron Fey series

Comfort book?

Also Vampire Academy

Favourite book?

It's so hard to choose ughhh

Perfect book to read on a rainy day?

Maybe the Heartstopper series

Favourite character?

Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy, or Valkyrie Cain from Skulduggery Pleasant

5 favourite quotes from your favourite book(s) that you know by heart?

I can't remember things like that for the life of me, but I'll find the one scene that breaks my heart everytime. (Actually, I lied. There's 2 and they're both from VA)

'The next words stuck in my throat, and I sank to my knees as I spoke them.

"Is he... is Dimitri a Strigoi?"

Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then - he nodded.

My heart shattered. My world shattered.'

- VA Book 3

'"This isn't over. I won't give up on you."

"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has."' - VA Book 5

(Insert meme 'wanna see how hard I can cry?' here.)

I've read this series through multiple times and those scenes never fail to make me ugly cry.

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator (only for the shock in realising that the character isn't what the appear to be - I'm thinking of the Virginia Andrews Mirror Sisters sorta style here) | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES

Favourite tv/movie genre?

I like horror/thriller, but I also like watching nature/science documentaries

Comfort movie?

Not really sure tbh, I don't watch much tv/movies anymore, maybe any Studio Ghibli movie

Movie you watch every year?

Don't have one

Favourite movie?

Probably Your Name

Favourite tv show?

I don't really have one rn, unless I can count Dream SMP as a tv show

Comfort tv show?

If we're calling DSMP a tv show, then I'd say that

Most rewatched tv show?

I think it'd be The Umbrella Academy or The Witcher

5 fave characters?

Vanya and Klaus from TUA, Bee Duo from DSMP and Eret from DSMP :)

I kinda get bored after a few seasons, so unless they're really good I won't watch past maybe 3 seasons (I think I watched Supernatural up until maybe season 5, but that also took me like 2 years).

I'll tag @a-students-lifebuoy, @kkul-bee and anyone who wants to do this :D (no pressure tho)

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Complete set of Vampire Academy art + some quotes from them.

Rose Hathaway: “Lissa and I had been best friends ever since kindergarden, when our teacher had paired us together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell "Vasilisa Dragomir" and "Rosemarie Hathaway" was beyond cruel and we'd -or rather, I'd- responded appropriately. I'd chucked my book at our teacher and called her a fascist bastard. I hadn't known what those words meant, but I'd known how to hit a moving target.” (I.e. the exact moment I fell in love with Rose Hathaway)

Dimitri Belikov: “No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

Adrian Ivashkov: “My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.”

Sydney Sage: “Just because I like you, it doesn’t mean I still don’t think you’re an evil creature of the night. You are.”

Christian Ozera: “Don't worry, I won't bite. Well, at least not in the way you're afraid of."

Lissa Dragomir: “Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.”

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Sam Smith the thrill of it all involves mental health!

Sam Smith the thrill of it all in the limelight involves more than just creating jams. It involves staying mentally healthy as well.

“I think a lot of people don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves. I think people should, but a lot of people don’t. People may be a bit taken back sometimes about how honest I am and how open I am. But I’m happier this way – it’s a good thing for me.” Sam Smith

The thrill of living life in Hollywood doesn’t exclude you from mental health and temptations.

Sam Smith opened up via his official Instagram page with a quote image that says “I am enough.”

Equally important is how does his best, to be honest, loving and open individual. The singer and songwriter mentioned in the past how there is an importance in being open and honest. Further, he’s shown family, friends and fans nothing less.

Let’s take a leap here, how many people in this world can say relate to the feelings of depression, sadness and essentially being “lost.”

For example, it was Amy Tan who spoke about uniqueness.

“Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable – but it can also make us feel lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even when surrounded by people. The feeling I’m talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.”

Honestly, quite similar to what Sam Smith has openly talked about regarding mental health.

Even Anne Hathaway had honest thoughts about loneliness.

“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”

Isn’t it true that mental health does not discriminate?

To illustrate, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Kesha Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber, Kayne West, Aaron Carter, Justin Timberlake, Usher, K Flay, DAYA, Ruby Rose, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Shawn Mendes, Lady Gaga, Madonna, and many other celebrities have opened up about mental health and their challenges in overcoming those thoughts and feelings.

The 27-year-old singer and songwriter took to Instagram and shared how the thrill of it all [everything in life] includes hard times, patience and hard work in order to overcome your battles.

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Sam talked therapy, challenges and the haunting challenge mental health affects a person.

Sam Smith via Instagram

“Just wanted to share a little thought with you all. Sitting here on my first holiday in a long long time. Looking back on a year and a half of therapy and what has been probably the most challenging time of my short 27 years here. I’ve watched and read so much over the last 6 months to try and make sense of all the mess in my head.

“Tried to find ways to organize all of my problems so that they are bound and organized into folders and boxes so that they will never haunt me or affect me again. But I’m slowly starting to realize that the words above are the only words that really matter…. and they are the words of the incredible @brenebrown …. ‘You are enough’

That mess in your mind is not a mess. It is who you are. By constantly trying to change and seek perfection and a life of no pain only causes more pain I am realizing.

Still on course and learning but feeling the closest I’ve ever felt to a real space of Joy, gratitude, and peace.

Sorry to blab on. But I know we are all dealing with some really heavy shit at times. And I find listening to words from strangers comforting. So hopefully sometimes I can be that stranger to you guys.

Now every morning and every night before you go to bed. Say these words to yourself in the mirror. I’m gonna do it too. We are in this together

Hope you’re all having a gorgeous summer x”

With this in mind, it’s safe to say that we are each unique, we each have faced a different trek in life.

Fortunately, the choices you make now will determine your future, above all your happiness.

How is that possible?

Our minds are powerful, in fact, it’s said that we only use 10% of our mind. The statement is thought to have come from Albert Einstein and Pierre Flourens around the 1880s. As well as William James.

In 1908 James wrote an interesting thought in a book called “The Energies of Men.”

“We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources” (from The Energies of Men, p. 12).

Another interesting study by Karl Lashley between 1920-1930 shared his process in the lab.

“Lashley removed large areas of the cerebral cortex in rats and found that these animals could still relearn specific tasks. We now know that the destruction of even small areas of the human brain can have devastating effects on behavior. That is one reason why neurosurgeons must carefully map the brain before removing brain tissue during operations for epilepsy or brain tumors: they want to make sure that essential areas of the brain are not damaged.”

That alone shows what we are capable as long as we focus, work hard and make the decision [right now] to be the best version of yourself, humble up and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

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It’s safe to assume most of us have needed some type of help in life, whether that be mental or a personal situation.

Inspire others through your trials.

Lastly, isn’t it quite inspiring when a celebrity opens up about their trials? There’s a sense of comfort knowing you’re not alone [even though you would likely not wish these feelings on anyone in the world].

Whether you are currently facing something or not, remember it’s okay to love yourself. Most importantly, pay attention to your family and friends, sometimes there are small cries and it takes guts to survive.

You can change peoples lives by sharing your story. What a great post from Sam Smith on Instagram today. Life is unique and the thrill of it all involves mental health.

As you can see, we are all prone to feeling emotions which bring us down and it’s okay because we are human and we are damn perfect just the way we are at this very moment.

Mental health does not discriminate. But sometimes people do.

To end, be sure to check out Sam Smiths latest music video for his new collaboration with Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, and ILYA.

Sam spoke of the record in a recent press release.

“This year, both personally and musically, I feel so free. More than ever I have had so much fun making this record and this video. Time to dance darlings x.”

The new song “How Do You Sleep? hit 72,364,971 views.

Be sure to check it out on YouTube and leave some love in the comments section!

Blessed be!

Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep? (Official Video)

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4. What is the most expensive thing you have bought? 18. Favorite part of your personality? 22. Favorite quote? 28. Have you ever had a near death experience? 78. Do you like your laugh? 89. What is the nicest thing anyone has said to you?

4) Hmm...The things that come to mind are either when I bought about $100~ worth of Copics (they’re like $7 each) or when I bought Manga Studio for my laptop during a Black Friday sale. But even then it was somewhere over $100 because art programs are disgustingly expensive ;^; I really ought to buckle down sometime and try that program again because I felt it had a fairly steep learning curve but I would like to actually properly enjoy it since I put the money into it, you know?

18) Uhh in a weird way, how my ADHD affects my humor? Since it’s hard for me to stop myself before blurting shit out, sometimes that means I’m pretty quick on the draw to say something funny because it just pops to mind and comes out before I’ve given it much thought. There’s not a ton of things I like about my personality but my ability to make people laugh makes me feel validated.

22) I don’t have a true favorite for much, but especially quotes because really it just changes. I can think of two that I enjoy though. One is from BoJack Horseman and is pretty depressing but was “You know, it’s funny. When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.” And as for something that comforts me, the quote on my home page was from a dream I had when I was uber depressed. When I woke up, I wrote it down. For context, it was Christopher Lloyd uhh pretty much cosplaying as Doc Brown telling me it lmao. But it was a really comforting dream.

28) Apparently when I was very very young, like maybe a couple weeks old, I got pneumonia and scared the shit out of my family. My Grandma was sure I was going to die.

78) Ehhh I don’t hate it, I guess. The only thing I don’t like about it is sometimes even my genuine laughter sounds fake (like if I hear it on a recording) and when I laugh really hard I go completely silent and then HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN to inhale

89) Aw jeez...I really couldn’t say. My memory is too bumbled. There’s a lot of super nice things that my friends and family have said to me over the years. But when I was a teen with shitty self-esteem, someone online told me I looked like a young Anne Hathaway and I will carry that compliment to the grave no matter how relevant it is lmao.

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offered more than $6 billion in stock in April, its first-quarter earnin.

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway netted more than $6 billion from stock sales in April, its first-quarter profits showed.

The billionaire financier’s business was extensively expected to release a portion of its $128 billion money pile last quarter, but rather its reserves grew to $137 billion by the end of March.

Berkshire published its biggest-ever quarterly loss of $50 billion, due to about $55 billion in financial investment losses.

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold more than $6 billion worth of stocks in April, Â according to first-quarter earnings released on Saturday ahead of its yearly meeting.

The renowned financier’s conglomerate holds stakes in Apple, Amazon, Coca-Cola, and other companies. It was commonly expected to capitalize on the coronavirus sell-off and buy stocks on the low-cost, but instead netted about $6.1 billion from stock sales last month.

Berkshire’s money stack swelled from $128 billion on December 31 to $137 billion at the end of March, in spite of $1.8 billion in net stock purchases and $1.7 billion in share buybacks in the duration.

The group’s first-quarter figures disappointed the agreement price quotes of Wall Street experts surveyed by Bloomberg.

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Here are the essential numbers:

Income: $613 billion versus the $630 billion estimate

Net income: $497 billion loss versus the $6.33 billion price quote

EPS $2044 loss versus the $2.58 estimate

Net property worth: $372 billion versus the $359 billion price quote

Berkshire posted a bottom line of $497 billion last quarter, its biggest-ever quarterly loss and a sharp swing from its net earnings of $216 billion in the first quarter of2019 The shift showed $545 billion in financial investment losses, compared to a $155 billion gain in the exact same duration last year.

Nevertheless, Berkshire warned financiers versus reading excessive into its revenues.

” The amount of investment gains/losses in any given quarter is generally meaningless and provides figures for net earnings per share that can be incredibly misguiding to investors who have little or no knowledge of accounting guidelines,” the business stated in its revenues release.

Berkshire’s operating revenues grew 6%to $5.9 billion as insurance coverage investment income and “other” profits rose, offsetting lower insurance underwriting revenues due to anticipated pandemic payments and less income from its railway, energies and energy sector.

The corporation had $113 billion purchased equity securities at the end of March, a minor boost from $110 billion at the end of December. It generated $965 million in after-tax gains from sales of investments last quarter, a sharp boost from $392 million in the equivalent duration.

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Like many other business, Berkshire alerted that the coronavirus outbreak has actually “negatively impacted” most of its organisations, with the impacts varying from “reasonably small to serious.”.

Numerous of its companies including railways, utilities, and insurance have been considered vital and allowed to continue running, however their earnings “slowed significantly” in April, Berkshire said. Other companies consisting of merchants and some manufacturing and service groups are being “significantly affected” by closures, it added.

Berkshire included that the coronavirus fallout will likely continue in the current quarter.

” The federal government and private sector reactions to include its spread began to considerably affect our operating organisations in March and will likely adversely affect nearly all of our operations in the 2nd quarter, although such results might differ significantly,” the business said.

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Warren Buffett is generally considered to be the best long-term investor of all time, so it’s no wonder many people like to listen closely to Buffett’s words of wisdom, in order to apply them to their own lives. With that in mind, here are seven of the best personal finance lessons I’ve learned from Warren Buffett over the years.

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1. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”

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Smart as a Billionaire

Two of the most admired names in the world, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, have something in common with legendary figures like Benjamin Franklin and Barak Obama, when he was in the midst of a frenzied presidency. They all set aside an hour a day or more for reading. Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has said “in my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero.”

When Elon Musk was asked how he intends to build rockets, he said, “I read books.” Businessinsider.com has listed the 14 books that inspired Musk.

When Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to his success, he pointed to a stack of books. Buffet said that he spends about 80% of his day reading – which translates to 600-1000 pages per day.

I have had occasion to visit one of Vancouver’s greatest zero-to-billionaire successes. Every night he reads five or six newspapers cover to cover. He is not reading Facebook or Instagram. He reads the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

If you want to get ahead, if you want to succeed, if you want an asset that will be impervious to market swings and political inversions, then you need the learning that is found in print. It wasn’t always like this. Over 2,300 years ago, Plato argued that memory – which is essential to wisdom - would be ruined by writing things down. In the 15th century Catholic leaders opposed Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, fearing that print would be the death of their safeguarding of the transmission and interpretation of their bible. Mark Twain is widely quoted in print as having said four centuries later, “the whole world admits unhesitatingly; and there can be no doubt about this, that Gutenberg's invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history of the world.”

Twain also marvelled at the timeless success of the Jews.

The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away. The Greek and Roman followed, made a vast noise and they are gone. Other peoples have sprung up, and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out and they sit in twilight now or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal, but the Jew. All other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality? (Harper’s Magazine, 1899)

Perhaps the answer can be found in the success secrets of Buffet and Gates. One thousand years before Plato argued against writing things down, Moshe and Joshua were given the final commandment – to commit the Torah to writing. From the very moment that the Jewish people crossed the Jordan to enter the land of Israel they have been charged with the task of constant Torah study. Joshua would later say the following.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Are these words from the Book of Joshua not a recipe for success? It would seem that our strength has always been in our being known as “the people of the Book” through our dedication to learning. Musk, Gates, Buffet, and Franklin were dedicated to reading books on history, nature, business, art, and philosophy. There is much to be gained from that kind of secular wisdom.

The charge of Joshua is to study divine wisdom by reading and learning Torah. The idea of Torah is multifaceted. It penetrates the heart. This is expressed in the story of Rabbi Akiva – who noted that drops of water will eventually carve out a stone. Akiva understood that daily Torah learning works slowly, gradually like drops of water on a stone. In other words, study is a formative act, a sculpting enterprise through which the individual is refined. This dimension of Torah is similar to the lifelong educational idea of Buffet or Musk, but with the added advantage that the Torah also refines character traits. That, in turn, enriches one’s spiritual investment portfolio.

The study of Torah has an additional advantage; it makes Gd present in our world. In the words of Rabbi Meir Solovietchik,

How does finite, physical, fallible man relate to an infinite, immaterial, and almighty God? For Christians, that gap is bridged through the Incarnation—through God becoming man. [This concept is clearly at odds with everything Judaics believes in, an infinite Gd and a non-corporeal Gd. So how then do we bridge the gap with the infinite?] The Jewish rejection of incarnation, though, does not leave Gd at a distance, remote and inaccessible. Judaism approaches Gd through the observance of his commandments, the most important of which, equal to all the others combined, is Torah learning: the intellectual engagement with the divine author of the commandments. . . Torah learning elicits a divine-human partnership, a continuing relationship of teacher and taught, of lover and beloved. It is not submission but communion, in which the engagement of the intellect is essential to approaching Gd.

Torah makes Gd real and tangible in our world. Soloveitchik sees this as the Jewish version of Incarnation of Gd in our lives.

I think we as a community need to be studying more, reading more, learning more. We need to do so for all the reasons I’ve given. We want to succeed like Buffet and Gates. We want to shape our character like Akiva. We want to connect to Gd like Soloveitchik. We also strive to achieve the virtue articulated by the Shema – to “teach them thoroughly to (y)our children.” We want to have answers when those children ask the questions.

We are committed to providing better and more engaging access to Torah. We have classes almost every day of the week at Schara Tzedeck. We have also partnered with Vancouver Torah Learning Centre for expanded access. And now, from the comfort of your own home, you can now receive our Torah Primer.

For those of you not interested in tapping into the wisdom of Franklin, the success of Buffet, the character development of Rabbi Akiva, or the spirituality of Soloveitchik, I leave you with the fact that Gd sets aside time for the study of Torah. The Midrashic work Tanna D’Be Eliyahu says that Gd spends a third of each day in the study of Torah. The other two thirds are spent in judgement and acts of charity. Are you better than Gd? If not, then go and learn.

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8.1.17 Tuesday Stock Market Movers & News via /r/Stock_Picks

8.1.17 Tuesday Stock Market Movers & News

Good morning traders of the r/Stock_Picks sub! Happy first trading day of August to everyone! Here are your stock market movers & news on this Tuesday, August 1st-

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Frontrunning: August 1

Futures higher on strong earnings season; Apple in focus (Reuters)

Kelly Sends Off Scaramucci, But Real Test Will Be Taming Trump (BBG)

Senate Democrats offer Republicans help on tax reform - with conditions (Reuters)

Banks May Need $50 Billion New Capital After Brexit (BBG)

Goldman Sachs Finds Itself in Odd Spot: Last Place in Trading (WSJ)

Trump dictated misleading statement on son's meeting with Russian (Washington Post)

Struggling Stock Pickers Eye Quant Tools to Gain an Edge (BBG)

Trump’s Obsession With Leaks (BBG)

BP Turns a Corner, but 2010 Oil Spill Keeps Biting (WSJ)

The immigrant success story that led police to a Chinese banking giant (Reuters)

Greenspan Sees No Stock Excess, Warns of Bond Market Bubble (BBG)

Euro-Area Economy Steams Ahead as ECB Waits for Inflation (BBG)

The energy patch: where rights offerings are 'sexy' again (Reuters)

Rowling Apologizes for Claiming Trump Ignored Disabled Boy (BBG)

President Xi says China loves peace but won't compromise on sovereignty (Reuters)

Greenspan Sees No Stock Excess, Warns of Bond Market Bubble (BBG)

Rolls-Royce Recovery Revs Up, But CEO Wary of Production Hurdles (BBG)

Snap, Blue Apron Shake Confidence in Startup Valuations (WSJ)

Caterpillar CFO Brad Halverson to retire in early 2018 (Reuters)

Under Armour to Cut About 280 Jobs (WSJ)

STOCK FUTURES NOW:

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YESTERDAY'S MARKET HEAT MAP:

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THIS WEEK'S IPO'S:

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EARNINGS RELEASES BEFORE THE OPEN TODAY:

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THIS MORNING'S MOST ACTIVE TRENDING DISCUSSIONS:

SHOP

UAA

AAPL

PFE

ZYNE

REGN

RACE

CMI

INCY

IDXX

MOS vCBMX

BB.CA

TGTX

ADM

XYL

ACCO

YRD

EIGI

PBI

XRX

THIS MORNING'S STOCK NEWS MOVERS:

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Under Armour – The athletic footwear and apparel maker reported a quarterly loss of three cents per share, half of what analysts had expected, and revenue beat forecasts. Under Armour cut its full-year outlook below forecasts, however, and also announced a restructuring that will include job cuts.

STOCK SYMBOL: UAA

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