Day: November 6, 2019

The load factor on Icelandair’s flights was 85.3% in October compared to 80.9% in the same period last year. The total number of Icelandair’s passengers was 341 thousand in October, decreasing by 3% compared with October last year. The total capacity decreased by 13% between years.The number of passengers to Iceland increased by 16% compared to October last year. This year, the number of passengers to Iceland has increased by 26% with the total number of passengers amounting to over 1.6 million to date. Passengers on the home market from Iceland increased by 15% between years. This increase in the to and from markets is due to the Company’s focus on minimizing the impact of the suspension of the MAX aircraft and changes in the competitive environment in these markets. In line with this shift in focus, the number of via passengers decreased...

UTRECHT, Pays-Bas et CAMBRIDGE, 06 nov. 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merus N.V. (Nasdaq : MRUS), entreprise spécialisée dans les anticorps bispécifiques de stade clinique développant le produit Biclonics®, a annoncé aujourd’hui la tarification d’un appel public à l’épargne par voie de prise ferme portant sur 4 750 000 actions ordinaires au tarif public de 14,50 $ par action, déduction faite des remises et commissions liées à la souscription. Merus a également accordé aux souscripteurs une option d’achat de 30 jours portant sur un volume de 712 500 actions ordinaires supplémentaires. Le produit brut du placement, avant déduction des remises et commissions liées à la souscription et frais d’offre estimatifs, est évaluée à 68,9 millions de dollars, à l’exclusion de l’option d’achat d’actions...

UTRECHT, Niederlande und CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merus N.V. (Nasdaq: MRUS), ein klinisches Unternehmen für bispezifische Antikörper, das Biclonics® entwickelt, gab heute die Preisgestaltung für ein öffentliches Zeichnungsangebot von 4.750.000 Stammaktien zu einem öffentlichen Angebotspreis von 14,50 USD pro Aktie vor Zeichnung von Rabatten und Provisionen bekannt. Merus gewährte den Zeichnern außerdem eine 30-tägige Option zum Kauf von weiteren 712.500 Stammaktien. Der Bruttoerlös aus dem Angebot vor Abzug der Zeichnungsrabatte und -provisionen sowie der geschätzten Angebotsaufwendungen wird voraussichtlich bei ca. 68,9 Mio. USD liegen, wobei die Option der Zeichner, zusätzliche Stammaktien zu erwerben, unberücksichtigt bleibt. Alle Aktien des Angebots sollen von Merus verkauft werden.Citigroup und Jefferies fungieren...

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Natur International Corp., (OTCQB: NTRU), a “farm-to-functional” producer of natural and organic plant-based foods and beverages, beauty products, and animal care including full and broad spectrum CBD (cannabinoid) and terpene-blended consumer products, today announced that it has appointed Mr. Li Zeng as a member of the Executive Management Board, effective immediately. Mr. Zeng will be responsible for operations in Asia, particularly in China.Mr. Zeng is the Chairman and CEO of Hualong (Chongqing) Ltd, a part of CQNews, the second largest media company in China. Over the past four years, he has built a national network of commercial relationships throughout China in order to drive additional digital cross border platform development. Mr. Zeng manages all external relations...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVIDIA today posted the fastest results on new benchmarks measuring the performance of AI inference workloads in data centers and at the edge — building on the company’s equally strong position in recent benchmarks measuring AI training.The results of the industry’s first independent suite of AI benchmarks for inference, called MLPerf Inference 0.5, demonstrate the performance of NVIDIA Turing™ GPUs for data centers and NVIDIA Xavier™ system-on-a-chip for edge computing.MLPerf’s five inference benchmarks — applied across a range of form factors and four inferencing scenarios — cover such established AI applications as image classification, object detection and translation.NVIDIA topped all five benchmarks for both data center-focused scenarios (server and offline), with Turing...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVIDIA today introduced Jetson Xavier™ NX, the world’s smallest, most powerful AI supercomputer for robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge.With a compact form factor smaller than the size of a credit card, the energy-efficient Jetson Xavier NX module delivers server-class performance up to 21 TOPS for running modern AI workloads, and consumes as little as 10 watts of power.Jetson Xavier NX opens the door for embedded edge computing devices that demand increased performance but are constrained by size, weight, power budgets or cost. These include small commercial robots, drones, intelligent high-resolution sensors for factory logistics and production lines, optical inspection, network video recorders, portable medical devices and other industrial IoT systems.“AI has...

Mandatory notification of tradeCarl K. Arnet, member of the Board of Directors in BW Offshore, has today purchased 30,000 shares in BW Offshore Limited of NOK 67.82 per share. Following this transaction, Mr. Arnet, directly and indirectly, holds 2,390,000 shares in BW Offshore Limited.For further information, please contact:Ståle Andreassen, CFO, +65 97 27 86 47Anders S. Platou, Head of Corporate Finance, +47 99 50 47 40IR@bwoffshore.com or www.bwoffshore.comAbout BW Offshore:BW Offshore is a leading provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry. The company also participates in developing proven offshore hydrocarbon reservoirs. BW Offshore is represented in all major oil and gas regions world-wide with a fleet of 15 owned FPSOs. The company has more than 30 years of production track record, having executed 40 FPSO...

IPSOS LAUNCHES IPSOS.DIGITAL, ITS FULLY AUTOMATED RESEARCH PLATFORMParis November 6th, 2019 – As part of Ipsos’ ongoing commitment to deliver fast, high-quality data while bringing the best of science, technology and know-how to its clients, Ipsos today announces the launch of Ipsos.Digital, it’s self-service research platform that offers clients fast, simplified access to global research capabilities and insights.This intuitive end-to-end platform provides access to Ipsos’ fully integrated online panels of consumers and other publics. Users first identify their sample – either targeted at a specific audience, or representative of the general population – from Ipsos’ high-quality online samples. Then, they can launch their study in just a few clicks, receiving automated reports within a matter of hours. Ipsos.Digital offers fully automated...

Heimavellir hf.: Traustur rekstur fyrstu níu mánuði 2019.Árshlutareikningur Heimavalla hf. fyrstu níu mánaða 2019 var samþykktur af stjórn þann 6. nóvember 2019. Helstu atriði:Leigutekjur námu 2.567 m.kr. á fyrstu níu mánuðum 2019 (2018 9M: 2.761 m.kr.) sem er 7% lækkun milli ára og skýrist af því að íbúðum í eignasafninu fækkar um 11% milli ára.Íbúðir í rekstri þann 30. júní 2019 voru 1.596 talsins og til viðbótar eru 124 íbúðir í sölumeðferð. Alls átti félagið 1.720 íbúðir.Rekstrarhagnaður fyrir matsbreytingu og söluhagnað (EBIT) nam 1.544 m.kr. eða 60,1% af veltu (2018 9M: 1.654 m.kr. og 59,9% af veltu).Ef litið er fram hjá einskiptis liðum og áhrifum af innleiðingu IFRS16 reikningsskilastaðals er rekstrarhagnaður fyrir matsbreytingu og söluhagnað 60,8% af veltu á fyrstu níu mánuðum 2019.Félagið seldi eignir fyrir 8.002 m.kr. á tímabilinu...