Category: 3. Business

  • Grade 16 officer’s flat in DHA robbed

    Grade 16 officer’s flat in DHA robbed


    KARACHI:

    Armed robbers looted over Rs20 million in cash, gold, and valuables from the flat of Keamari Muktiarkar Gada Hussain Abro, a Grade-16 government officer, in DHA Phase 6 on October 27.

    According to Darakhshan police SHO Shahid Taj, the robbery was allegedly orchestrated by Abro’s domestic servant, Adnan Malik, who has been arrested, while his two accomplices remain at large.

    “Around 2:30pm, my wife called to inform me that armed men had entered our home and looted valuables,” Abro stated in his FIR.

    He said two unidentified men knocked on the door, which was opened by the servant Adnan, allowing the robbers inside. They confined the family in one room and looted Rs15 million in cash, an iPhone 13 Pro Max, another touchscreen mobile phone, gold jewelry including two rings, three chains, a gold necklace set, a laptop, and a tablet – items collectively worth around Rs8 million.

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  • Nektar Therapeutics to Participate in the Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference in London

    Nektar Therapeutics to Participate in the Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference in London

    SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) today announced that company management will be webcasting its participation in the Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference being held November 17-20, 2025 in London.

    • Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference in London on Thursday, November 20, 2025 – webcast to be available at 11:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time / 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time – link here

    The fireside chat will be accessible via the webcast link above as well as on the Investor Events section of the Nektar website: https://ir.nektar.com/events-and-presentations/events. A replay of the presentation will be available for 30 days.

    If you would like to request a one-on-one meeting with company management during the conference, please reach out to your Jefferies representative.

    About Nektar Therapeutics

    Nektar Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments that address the underlying immunological dysfunction in autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases. Nektar’s lead product candidate, rezpegaldesleukin (REZPEG, or NKTR-358), is a novel, first-in-class regulatory T cell stimulator being evaluated in two Phase 2b clinical trials, one in atopic dermatitis, one in alopecia areata, and in one Phase 2 clinical trial in Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Nektar’s pipeline also includes a preclinical bivalent tumor necrosis factor receptor type II (TNFR2) antibody and bispecific programs, NKTR-0165 and NKTR-0166, and a modified hematopoietic colony stimulating factor (CSF) protein, NKTR-422. Nektar, together with various partners, is also evaluating NKTR-255, an investigational IL-15 receptor agonist designed to boost the immune system’s natural ability to fight cancer, in several ongoing clinical trials.

    Nektar is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For further information, visit http://www.nektar.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

    Contact:

    For Investors:

    Vivian Wu of Nektar Therapeutics
    628-895-0661

    For Media:

    Jonathan Pappas
    LifeSci Communications
    857-205-4403
    [email protected] 

    SOURCE Nektar Therapeutics

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  • Omnicom and Interpublic Announce Extension of Exchange Offers in Connection with Expected Merger Closing

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  • A&O Shearman advises Celanese on USD 500 million divestiture of Micromax to Element Solutions Inc

    A&O Shearman advises Celanese on USD 500 million divestiture of Micromax to Element Solutions Inc

    The sale supports Celanese’s strategic priorities, including deleveraging its balance sheet and focusing on core growth areas.

    The Micromax portfolio comprises advanced electronic inks and pastes used in high performance electronics across applications such as navigation and defense, medical monitoring, and advanced circuit board components. The portfolio includes conductive, resistive, and dielectric thick film inks, as well as Low Temperature Co fired Ceramic (LTCC) materials for multilayer circuits.

    The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions and required regulatory approvals.

    “This transaction underscores our strength in executing complex, cross border divestitures,” said M&A partner, Romain Dambre. “We are pleased to support Celanese on a strategic portfolio action that advances its priorities and positions Micromax for continued success under new ownership.”

    The A&O Shearman team that advised Celanese was led by M&A partner, Romain Dambre and associates Iqra Anees, Lucy Chen, and Becca Scher in New York.

    Tax advice was provided by partner Ryan Bray in Dallas, and associate Brandon Fawbush in Washington D.C. Antitrust advice was provided by partner Noah Brumfield and associate Nick Putz in Washington D.C. Employment advice was provided by compensation, employment, pensions and governance (CEPG) partners Doreen Lilienfeld and Melisa Brower and associates Alexandra Sentner and Thomas Blecher in New York. Intellectual property advice was provided by partner JB Betker and associate Will Jackson in New York.

    The multidisciplinary deal team was also supported by A&O Shearman teams across nine jurisdictions, including U.S., UK, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands, and Singapore.  

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  • Digital Euro Could Be Curtailed Under EU Lawmaker’s Proposal

    Digital Euro Could Be Curtailed Under EU Lawmaker’s Proposal

    A fully-fledged digital euro should only be launched if the private sector doesn’t come up with its own solution to integrate the region’s fractured payments landscape, according to the lead European Union lawmaker on the file.

    Fernando Navarrete proposed to let an online version of the digital money be “conditional on the absence of a pan-European sovereign retail payment solution,” according to a statement accompanying the long-awaited report that will form the basis for further discussions in the European Parliament.

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  • Aptar Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results

    Aptar Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results

    Crystal Lake, Illinois, October 30, 2025 — AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE:ATR), a global leader in drug delivery and consumer product dosing, dispensing and protection technologies, today reported the following third quarter results for the period ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.

    Third Quarter 2025 Highlights

    (Compared to the prior year quarter; see Non-GAAP section for full definitions; see reconciliation for Non-GAAP measures)

    • Reported sales increased 6% and core sales increased 1%
    • Strong product volume growth in Closures and Pharma, especially in injectables
    • Reported net income increased 28% to $128 million and reported earnings per share increased 30% to $1.92
    • Adjusted earnings per share, which also excludes non-ordinary-course litigation costs (see Non-GAAP section for full definition), increased 4% to $1.62
    • Adjusted EBITDA, which also excludes non-ordinary-course litigation costs, increased 7% to $223 million
    • Adjusted EBITDA margin was 23.2% compared to 22.9% in the prior year
    • Returned $70 million to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends

    Nine Months Year-to-Date 2025 Highlights

    (Compared to the prior year period; see Non-GAAP section for full definitions; see reconciliation for Non-GAAP measures)

    • Reported sales increased 3% and core sales increased 1%
    • Reported net income increased 16% to $318 million and reported earnings per share increased 17% to $4.75
    • Adjusted earnings per share increased 7% to $4.48
    • Adjusted EBITDA increased 8% to $624 million, and Adjusted EBITDA margin was 22.2% compared to 21.2% in the prior year
    • Returned $279 million to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends

    “Aptar delivered solid third quarter results with strong product volume growth in Pharma and Closures. As we anticipated, we are seeing the steady ramp in sales in our injectables division, which grew 18% in the third quarter, indicating an expected strong finish to the year for elastomeric components. Our continued focus on innovation, operational excellence and disciplined capital deployment, positions us well to deliver sustainable value for our customers and shareholders, while expanding our third quarter adjusted EBITDA margin,” said Stephan B. Tanda, Aptar President and CEO.

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  • Federal Reserve plans to shrink board of top banking supervisor

    Federal Reserve plans to shrink board of top banking supervisor

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    The Federal Reserve’s top banking supervisor plans to shrink the Washington-based board’s staff by 30 per cent, amid a push by the Trump administration to deregulate the financial sector.

    Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s vice-chair for supervision, on Thursday unveiled a proposal to lower the headcount of the central bank’s supervision and regulation department from 500 to roughly 350 employees by the end of 2026.

    An email sent to staff, seen by the Financial Times, said the central bank would try to lower headcount “as much as possible through natural attrition, retirements, and by offering a voluntary separation incentive to all S&R division employees, with details to come in the following weeks”.

    The email also highlighted Bowman’s plans to reshape the unit “to operate with a flatter organizational structure and fewer management layers”.

    The lay-offs will only affect staff based at the Fed board, and not the 12 regional Feds, where most of the central bank’s supervisors work.

    The changes come as the Trump administration pushes the Fed and other US financial regulators to ease rules affecting American lenders.

    Elizabeth Warren, the most senior Democrat on the powerful Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the Fed, accused the central bank of “recycling” a regime that contributed to the 2008 global financial crisis.

    “The agency is now gutting its supervision and regulation staff, while granting big banks their deregulatory wish list. The Fed is actively undermining American financial stability at a moment when Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our economy,” Warren said.

    “We all know what happened the last time we let Wall Street run rampant, and I’m deeply concerned American families will pay the price once again.”

    Bowman is one of five candidates on Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s shortlist to become Fed chair when Jay Powell’s second term at the helm of the central bank ends in May 2026. US President Trump has said he plans to announce his replacement for Powell by the end of this year.

    The regulatory changes the Fed is considering could enable banks to lower their capital ratios enough to offer US borrowers an additional $2.6tn in lending capacity, according to consultancy Alvarez & Marsal.

    Bessent has also criticised the Dodd-Frank legislation, which was introduced after the global financial crisis of 2008 and expanded the Fed’s supervision and regulation responsibilities, for giving the central bank too much control over US lenders.

    “The core problem is structural: the Fed now regulates, lends to and sets the profitability calculus for the very banks it oversees,” Bessent said in an International Economy magazine article in September. “This is an unavoidable conflict that blurs accountability and jeopardizes monetary policy independence.”

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  • Apple’s iPhones Fuel Record Sales and Profit – The New York Times

    1. Apple’s iPhones Fuel Record Sales and Profit  The New York Times
    2. Apple reports fourth quarter earnings after the bell  CNBC
    3. Apple says holiday quarter will be biggest ever in company history  9to5Mac
    4. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Surprises With Q3 Sales  TradingView
    5. Apple Gives Strong Guidance for the Current Holiday Quarter  Barron’s

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  • Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage | Amazon

    Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage | Amazon

    Amazon has made its first financial disclosures since the disastrous outage suffered by its cloud computing division that brought everything from smart beds to banks offline.

    In spite of the global outage, Amazon Web Services has continued to grow, and this quarter reported a 20% increase in revenue year over year. Wall Street estimated that AWS would bring in $32.42bn in net sales in the third quarter, with the company reporting actual revenue of $33bn.

    “AWS is growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022,” CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement accompanying the earnings report.

    The strong third-quarter earnings, which exceeded analysts’ expectations, led the company’s stock to spike up about 9% in after-hours trading.

    The earnings report highlighted Amazon’s desire to compete with competitors that have managed to capitalize more aggressively on the AI boom. Amazon’s stock has lagged behind some rivals in big tech, and its e-commerce business has been more susceptible to the effects of the Trump administration’s sweeping and unpredictable tariff policies than firms more focused on software.

    The tech company, worth some $2.4tn, revealed that it easily beat Wall Street expectations through growth in its cloud computing services. Market analysts had predicted that Amazon would report $1.58 earnings per share and a net sales revenue of $177.82bn. The company reached $180.17bn in revenue and $1.95 earnings per share.

    AWS has faced increasing competition from alternative providers such as Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, with the latter’s partnership with OpenAI and reports of strong growth in its cloud business driving up its share price.

    Yet AWS is still a backbone of much of the modern internet, with an inadvertent show of its power taking place earlier this month when a glitch in the company’s cloud computing took websites, apps, tech products and critical communications systems, such as electronic hospital records, offline. The outage affected millions of people and lasted hours, underscoring how reliant many parts of everyday life are on Amazon’s products.

    At Amazon headquarters, the company confirmed plans earlier this week to lay off 14,000 corporate workers, while further job cuts are expected throughout the company. The tech company publicly announced the cuts in a post on its website titled “Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizations”, which referenced advancements in AI and claimed the company wanted to “operate like the world’s largest startup”.

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    “What we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly,” Amazon’s post stated. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”

    Jassy suggested in a blog post earlier this year that the company’s investments in AI would mean that Amazon needs “fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today”.

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  • Carrier to Present at Baird’s 2025 Global Industrial Conference

    Carrier to Present at Baird’s 2025 Global Industrial Conference

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Oct. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR) Chairman & CEO David Gitlin and Senior Vice President & CFO Patrick Goris will speak at the Baird 2025 Global Industrial Conference on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. CT (1:00 p.m. ET).

    The event will be broadcast live at ir.carrier.com. A webcast replay will be available on the website following the event.

    About Carrier

    Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure the safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

    Carrier. For the World We Share.

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