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Yahoo
04-08-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Insider Stock Buying Reaches US$1.28m On Granite Ridge Resources
Usually, when one insider buys stock, it might not be a monumental event. But when multiple insiders are buying like they did in the case of Granite Ridge Resources, Inc. (NYSE:GRNT), that sends out a positive message to the company's shareholders. While we would never suggest that investors should base their decisions solely on what the directors of a company have been doing, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether. We've found 21 US stocks that are forecast to pay a dividend yield of over 6% next year. See the full list for free. The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Granite Ridge Resources In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when Co-Chairman of the Board Matthew Miller bought US$252k worth of shares at a price of US$6.60 per share. That means that an insider was happy to buy shares at above the current price of US$4.88. Their view may have changed since then, but at least it shows they felt optimistic at the time. To us, it's very important to consider the price insiders pay for shares. It is generally more encouraging if they paid above the current price, as it suggests they saw value, even at higher levels. Granite Ridge Resources insiders may have bought shares in the last year, but they didn't sell any. You can see a visual depiction of insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last 12 months, below. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date! View our latest analysis for Granite Ridge Resources There are always plenty of stocks that insiders are buying. If investing in lesser known companies is your style, you could take a look at this free list of companies. (Hint: insiders have been buying them). Granite Ridge Resources Insiders Bought Stock Recently It's good to see that Granite Ridge Resources insiders have made notable investments in the company's shares. Not only was there no selling that we can see, but they collectively bought US$287k worth of shares. This is a positive in our book as it implies some confidence. Insider Ownership For a common shareholder, it is worth checking how many shares are held by company insiders. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. Granite Ridge Resources insiders own about US$21m worth of shares. That equates to 3.3% of the company. We've certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders. So What Do The Granite Ridge Resources Insider Transactions Indicate? It is good to see recent purchasing. And the longer term insider transactions also give us confidence. When combined with notable insider ownership, these factors suggest Granite Ridge Resources insiders are well aligned, and that they may think the share price is too low. While it's good to be aware of what's going on with the insider's ownership and transactions, we make sure to also consider what risks are facing a stock before making any investment decision. Every company has risks, and we've spotted 3 warning signs for Granite Ridge Resources (of which 1 is significant!) you should know about. But note: Granite Ridge Resources may not be the best stock to buy. So take a peek at this free list of interesting companies with high ROE and low debt. For the purposes of this article, insiders are those individuals who report their transactions to the relevant regulatory body. We currently account for open market transactions and private dispositions of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Data breach affecting over 75,000 people at UMass leads to lawsuit
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth failed to 'properly secure and safeguard' the personally identifiable information of over 75,000 faculty, staff and students at the institution, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The data breach in early 2025 came about from unauthorized third-party cybercriminals, which could have exposed information like people's Social Security numbers and identifying information for people's passports, driver's licenses and financial accounts, according to the complaint. The person suing UMass is Matthew Miller, and he is joined by others as part of a class action suit of those who also had their data exposed. The institution said it is 'committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the information we maintain,' according to a letter sent by David Gingerella, vice chancellor of administration and facilities. The institution is adopting 'additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect and monitor' its systems, Gingerella wrote. It is also offering a complimentary one-year membership to Experian Identity Works to detect misuse of personal information. A UMass Dartmouth spokesperson didn't respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. Read more: 'Far reaching consequences' — UMass Amherst sounds the alarm amid federal uncertainty In the lawsuit, Miller claims that the institution didn't notify people of the data breach until months after it discovered it. The complaint states that the court declare a class action, award damages and require more data protection, among other requests. Judge rules Trump can't invoke national security powers to ban foreign Harvard students Harvard's Jewish faculty have their own wish list for a deal with Trump These 16 states are supporting the Trump admin in lawsuit with Harvard Alums urge Harvard to resist compromise with Trump as reports of deal emerge 'Devastating': 10 Harvard researchers detail 'essential' work set to be cut by Trump Read the original article on MassLive.
The Guardian
16-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
A Biden official says Israel committed war crimes. Who else will come forward?
Politicians lie, and the people around them do too. When it's convenient – when the whole world is pulsing with revulsion, for example – they begin to reveal flavors of the truth. The Biden administration lied more than most, its public-facing members particularly. Its policy in Palestine was to embrace the Israelis in a 'bear hug' – to smother them with love. And there's thin cover for a genocide beyond lies. Now, Matthew Miller, the former state department spokesperson, is speaking out. It appears he has a new job – one that seems to require public-facing work, which may explain his decision to sit for a Sky News interview. You take your lumps and get it over with. Only I'm not sure it's over for Miller. In the interview, the former spokesman shared his personal view that it is 'without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes'. Asked if that had been true when he was employed by the government, he suggested that lying is just part of the job: 'You are a spokesperson for the president, the administration, and you espouse the positions of the administration. And when you're not in the administration, you can just give your own opinions.' Miller isn't alone. The Biden-era spokespeople for the genocide included the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the deputy state department spokesperson Vedant Patel, as well as Jake Sullivan, a primary policymaker for an addled president, who represented the actual center of power along with John Kirby, a former admiral, and Antony Blinken, the former secretary of state. The group spent the period from October 2023 to January 2025 lying to an anguished public. They lied scornfully (Jean-Pierre) or gleefully (Miller), mawkishly (Kirby and Blinken), or blandly (Patel and Sullivan). And they did it every day, for 15 months. They told extravagant lies: Hamas beheaded 40 babies. They told savage lies about 'command and control' centers under al-Shifa hospital – they told us not to believe what we'd seen and to believe what they couldn't show us. They lied about Israeli investigations and Biden's humanity, his capacity for 'empathy'. Every lie they told was consequential, about infants in incubators; about the execution of Hind Rajab, a child; and about the way in which their pier was used to facilitate an Israeli massacre. They lied about the things that matter most. They lied to obscure a genocide, spinning whorls of confusion. In the Sky News interview, Miller twitched visibly just before he made the remarks about war crimes. Watching him, I wondered what had happened to his confidence, the brazen and unembarrassed way in which he skipped, lightly, through so much human carnage, whistling past Gaza's profusion of mass graves. And yet, despite himself, the former spokesperson continues to lie. He claims to not know if what the Biden administration has orchestrated in Gaza is a genocide, perhaps to shield himself from the worst of the moral reckoning. The tactic he's taken is a tired one, and the interview is self-indulgent. But at least Miller is braver than the others. In a video recorded at Harvard's Kennedy School, which is where both Brett McGurk, who also helped orchestrate the genocide, and Jake Sullivan have taken jobs, Sullivan meekly, dishonestly describes 'the choices the president made'. The choices the president made. It all brings to mind the former secretary of defense Robert McNamara's book, In Retrospect, a self-exculpatory account of his participation in the Vietnam war. Two million civilians were killed in that conflict, which achieved nothing, and was fought for nothing. And yet, McNamara waited 20 years to publish that account, long after many of his victims had died. So with that retrospective, we may encourage Sullivan, Miller, McGurk, Jean-Pierre, Blinken, Patel and all the others to come forward. If they do, they will be pilloried and mocked and verbally abused for what they've done. But they should do it anyway, because they owe their victims so much. Not least the truth. Ahmed Moor is a writer and fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace
Middle East Eye
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Israel's war on Palestinians will not end until the apartheid system is dismantled
More than 600 days into what many now call a "genocide war" in Gaza, even staunch supporters of Israel are beginning to question its motives. Some have started using the term "genocide" to describe Israel's actions. Yet focusing solely on Gaza obscures a broader, long-standing strategy - one targeting the Occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Palestinians inside Israel's pre-1967 borders. To oppose genocide effectively, it is not enough to condemn what is happening in Gaza. We must also reject the systematic dehumanisation, dispossession and legal discrimination that Israel enforces against Palestinians everywhere. Western commentators such as Piers Morgan and former White House spokesperson Matthew Miller were slow to criticise Israel's conduct in Gaza, even as their platforms helped justify it for months. Their delayed condemnation reveals a deeply entrenched presumption: Israel is "right until proven wrong", while Palestinians are "wrong until proven otherwise". This imbalance stems from colonial privilege and Israel's near-total control over Palestinian life - from the river to the sea. By controlling every aspect of life, including electricity, water, movement and economic access, Israel reshapes Palestinian communities to serve its own interests and directly manipulates Palestinian politics. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters And in this regard, it is crucial to return to the beginning. Blueprint for control The term "Gaza Strip" only emerged after the Nakba of 1948. Before that, there was the Gaza District, which covered approximately 1,196 sq km. After the Nakba, it was reduced to just 365 sq km - less than one-quarter of its original size. The model of siege, deprivation and periodic warfare has been viewed as a blueprint for civilian control, and it drew virtually no meaningful international sanctions Before 1948, the Gaza District was home to 150,000 Palestinians. Following the Nakba, the population of the newly formed Gaza Strip swelled to 280,000 - 80,000 of them original residents, and another 200,000 refugees who had fled from elsewhere. For Israel, Gaza came to represent the logic of "minimum land with maximum Arabs", in order to secure "maximum land for minimum Jews". In the decades that followed - especially after the Oslo Accords - Gaza was transformed into a closed system. Calorie rations were kept at subsistence levels, electricity and water were tightly controlled, and movement was heavily restricted. From 2008 through to September 2023, Israel launched four major military assaults on Gaza, killing around 6,300 Palestinians. Despite the scale of destruction, no senior Israeli political or military official has ever been held accountable. This model of siege, deprivation and periodic warfare has been viewed as a blueprint for civilian control, and it drew virtually no meaningful international sanctions. Follow Middle East Eye's live coverage of the Israel-Palestine war The architect of this strategy was then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. His 2005 Disengagement Plan was rooted in demographic calculations. With more than one million Palestinians and just 9,000 settlers in Gaza, the economic and political cost of direct military rule had become untenable. During meetings with US officials in 2004, Sharon made clear that he expected American backing for expanding settlements in the West Bank in exchange for withdrawal from Gaza. And that is precisely what happened. The number of settlers in the West Bank increased from 250,000 to 500,000, not including those in East Jerusalem. Legislated supremacy At the same time, under successive Likud governments, a raft of legislation was passed to erode the civil rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. The 2011 Nakba Law authorised the finance minister to withhold public funds from institutions that commemorate the Nakba. The 2017 Kaminitz Law gave the state sweeping powers to demolish "unauthorised" structures - disproportionately impacting Palestinian towns. The 2018 Nation-State Law made Hebrew Israel's sole official language, downgraded Arabic to a "special status", and affirmed that only Jewish settlements merit state support. More recent laws have empowered Israeli authorities to deport the family members of alleged "terrorists" without due process, and to criminalise any public expression deemed sympathetic to Palestinian resistance. Cumulatively, these laws entrench a racialised hierarchy of citizenship that privileges Jewish lives over Palestinian ones. Expanding conquest In late 2024 and early 2025, the Knesset approved a wave of building permits that enabled the seizure of both state-owned and privately held Palestinian land around Hebron - a scale of expansion not seen since 2007. In Hebron alone, around 5,000 olive trees were uprooted. Jenin and Nur Shams refugee camps were razed. Between October 2023 and mid-2025, Israeli forces killed roughly 900 Palestinians and arrested nearly 14,000 in the West Bank - many held without charge under sweeping administrative detention orders. Why Israel is accelerating its expansionist plan in the Naqab Read More » Israeli authorities also demolished at least 227 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and other Palestinian towns inside Israel during that same period, citing minor zoning violations to justify large-scale demolitions. Meanwhile, under the pretext of "developing the Negev (Naqab)", Israel revived the 2011 Mokedim ("Focal Points") plan in 2024. Tens of thousands of dunams have since been slated for confiscation, threatening the homes of around 85,000 Bedouin citizens. The plan seeks to forcibly concentrate Bedouin communities into state-recognised townships while bulldozing so-called "unrecognised villages". Israel's current posture is not merely a reaction to the events of 7 October 2023. It is the latest expression of a century-long campaign to dehumanise and criminalise Palestinians. This narrative has been widely accepted in western media and politics, conditioning global audiences to side with Israel regardless of its actions. It took almost two years of daily images documenting Gaza's devastation for the world to finally shift its stance. But Gaza is not a "bug" in Israel's system - it is a feature. It is a demonstration of the extreme measures Israel is willing to deploy against any Palestinian population. Designed brutality The genocide in Gaza is not an aberration - it is the logic of the system laid bare. One cannot condemn what is happening in Gaza while ignoring everything else Israel has done to the Palestinian people. Some Israeli political factions, and their international allies, now realise the scale of the disaster can no longer go unnoticed - that accountability may be inevitable. And so they have moved to the damage-control phase. This is not about fits of rage but a system built to distort reality and preserve Israeli and Jewish supremacy Precisely for this reason, it is more urgent than ever to remind the world that this system will continue unless it is dismantled. Anyone who truly opposes genocide must also oppose the structures of Israeli control over Palestinians everywhere. This is not about "fits of rage" or temporary moments of excess. It is about a system designed to distort and forcibly reshape reality in order to preserve Israeli and Jewish supremacy over Palestinians. Now, as during the Second Intifada, with elections on the horizon, more Israeli voices will speak out against Netanyahu - not out of opposition to the war itself, but because the international backlash has grown too costly. Fearing sanctions and international boycotts, they will try to engineer an "Oslo 2.0" - a "peace process" filled with promises, yet like its predecessor, ultimately designed to entrench control after the genocide in Gaza. And so, the next Palestinian disaster becomes only a matter of time. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Trump aluminum, steel tariffs inject fresh fear into auto industry
Ford and Hyundai posted strong sales for May, but tariff uncertainty still looms over automakers across the industry. Bloomberg anchor Matthew Miller joins The 11th Hour to discuss.
