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Business Insider
a day ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Analysts Offer Insights on Real Estate Companies: Two Harbors (TWO) and Essex Property (ESS)
Companies in the Real Estate sector have received a lot of coverage today as analysts weigh in on Two Harbors (TWO – Research Report) and Essex Property (ESS – Research Report). Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Two Harbors (TWO) In a report released yesterday, Jason Weaver from JonesTrading reiterated a Hold rating on Two Harbors. The company's shares closed last Tuesday at $10.09. According to Weaver 's ranking currently consits of 0 on a 0-5 ranking scale, with an average return of -6.6% and a 44.3% success rate. Weaver covers the NA sector, focusing on stocks such as Alpine Income Property Trust Inc, Ellington Residential Mortgage, and Seven Hills Realty Trust. Two Harbors has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $11.30, implying a 10.2% upside from current levels. In a report issued on July 18, J.P. Morgan also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a $9.50 price target. Essex Property (ESS) BMO Capital analyst John Kim maintained a Buy rating on Essex Property yesterday and set a price target of $317.00. The company's shares closed last Tuesday at $290.67. According to Kim is a 1-star analyst with an average return of -0.2% and a 44.9% success rate. Kim covers the NA sector, focusing on stocks such as Easterly Government Properties, Hudson Pacific Properties, and Rexford Industrial Realty. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Essex Property with a $314.04 average price target.
Miami Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
What happens behind the scenes in WWE? This SMU alum shows you exclusively on Netflix
Did you ever wonder what happens behind the scenes in WWE? WWE (World Wrestling Entertainmant) is the top pro wrestling / sports entertainment company in the world. The financial success of this long-running organization has other pro sports groups taking notice. There's the athletic side of WWE and also the entertainment side. Yes, fans know results are predetermined, but who and how it's determined who will win are part of the company's mystique. It's a process, a very interesting process. SMU alum Chris Weaver will give you a first-hand look at what occurs there as the director of the new docuseries 'WWE: UnReal,' which premieres July 29 on Netflix. From Monday Night RAW to WrestleMania, 'WWE: UnReal' goes backstage with WWE Superstars and staff as they bring the company's major spectacles to life. Season 1 covers from January to WrestleMania in April. So, WWE's biggest battles aren't always in the ring. 'WWE: Unreal' dives into the writers' room where legends — and feuds — are made. Paul Levesque, a 14-time WWE World Champion best known in the ring as Triple H and WWE's chief content officer since 2022, serves as the narrator of the docuseries. Weaver, who has a degree in Communication Arts: Cinema with a minor in English from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, is a senior producer for NFL Films, including the successful NFL reality docuseries 'Hard Knocks' on HBO. He is in his 22nd year working with NFL Films. Prior, he was an intern in the Broadcast Department for the Dallas Cowboys. During his teens years, Weaver gradauted from Mesquite High School in 1998 outside Dallas. Here is my video interview with 'WWE: UnReal' Director Chris Weaver. Weaver is a 9-time Emmy winning filmmaker. He has been instrumental in developing and launching new series such as 'Quarterback' for Netflix, 'Hard Knocks: in Season' for HBO, 'Peyton's Places' for ESPN+, 'All or Nothing' for Amazon, 'NFL Icons' for MGM+, 'NFL Films Drawn' for Youtube, and now 'WWE: UnReal: for Netflix. He has produced numerous features for 'Hard Knocks: Training Camp' for HBO, 'NFL Films Presents' for FS1, 'NFL Gameday All Access' for Youtube, 'Inside the NFL' for CW, 'Hey Rookie: Welcome to the NFL' for ESPN, 'A Football Life' for NFL Network and many more. His current focus is on story producing, lead editing, writing, and field directing. In an unprecedented turn, 'WWE: UnReal' takes you behind the scenes - into the writer's room and the homes of WWE's greatest Superstars - to show the year-round work it takes to execute one of the most secretive shows in the world week over week. And when the curtain falls down, the business of getting a show to air is just as compelling as the Main Event. Trailer: NETFLIX: JULY 29, 2025 EPISODES: 5 episodes x 50 Minutes EPISODE TITLES: Episode 1 - New EraEpisode 2 - PushEpisode 3 - Worth The WaitEpisode 4 - Heel TurnEpisode 5 - Wrestlemania THOSE FEATURED: Triple H, Cody Rhodes, John Cena, Rhea Ripley, CM Punk, Jey Uso, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Charlotte Flair, and Xavier Woods. Logline: For the first time ever, step into the WWE writer's room and outside the ring with your favorite WWE Superstars, where the drama is just as intense offstage as it is under the spotlight. Director: Chris Weaver Showrunner: Erik Powers Executive Producers: Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ross Ketover, Keith Cossrow, Ken Rodgers, Jessica Boddy, Lee Fitting, Ben Houser, Marc Pomarico Production Companies: Omaha Productions, NFL Films, Skydance Sports, WWE Visit:
The Citizen
4 days ago
- General
- The Citizen
Chirping with Kloof Conservancy – the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
THIS week we look at a bird that is often heard but not easily seen, the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird. Description The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird has a typical Barbet shape (it is related to the Barbets) with a very powerful looking black bill and a short stumpy tail. They are relatively small compared to other Barbets with a typical length of 12cm and a weight of 15g. As the name suggests its lower under feathers are a golden yellow, but it is the head and wings that are very striking. The head is dark black spreading down to the back and upper feathers. There are two very distinguishing white stripes which start from the eye area and spread to the back of the neck. The flight feathers are black with yellow outer edges adding to the striking appearance of this bird. Also read: Chirping with Kloof Conservancy – the Spectacled Weaver Distribution In South Africa the Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is restricted to a very narrow strip along the KZN coast through to the Mozambique border. The Highway area is its western limit. Habitat This is a forest species and will only be spotted in the upper parts of evergreen forest canopies. Because of its small size it is difficult to spot but its call is very unique and repetitive. Feeding The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is omnivorous, feeding mainly on fruits, but will opportunistically hawk insects in flight. Breeding This species is monogamous and pairs for life. The nest is built in a cavity in a branch of a tree, often excavated by both adults. Two to five eggs are laid which take about 12 days to hatch. The nest area is defended very aggressively by the male. Predators and threats This species is listed as 'least concern' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature but it is vulnerable to habitat loss when forests are cleared for development or agriculture. Local information This is quite a special bird to find because it is not very common, and it is difficult to spot – you do need patience! Best areas are our evergreen scarp and riverine forests. For more from the Highway Mail, follow us on Facebook , X and Instagram. You can also check out our videos on our YouTube channel or follow us on TikTok. Click to subscribe to our newsletter here
Yomiuri Shimbun
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Hegseth Team Told to Stop Polygraph Tests after Complaint to White House
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of polygraph tests to search for people leaking information to the news media was stopped at the direction of the White House after a senior adviser to Hegseth raised alarm to senior officials there about being targeted, U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter said. The adviser, Patrick Weaver, complained to White House officials this spring with concerns that he could soon be directed by Hegseth or another member of his team to submit to a polygraph test, the people familiar with the matter said. The possibility angered Weaver, an immigration hawk seen within the administration as a loyal foot soldier to President Donald Trump and associate of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of concerns for reprisal from the Trump administration. The White House intervention, which has not previously been reported, came in the form of a phone call by an individual close to the administration after Hegseth's team had begun administering polygraph tests to people around the defense secretary in April, according to people familiar with the matter, who declined to identify the individual. Before they were stopped, multiple tests were carried out over several weeks with approval by Hegseth and advice from Tim Parlatore, who has served as both Hegseth's private attorney and a part-time military aide on his staff. Weaver had previously served as a Republican congressional staff member and as an aide in the first Trump administration on the White House's National Security Council and in the Department of Homeland Security. He remains an adviser to Hegseth. By the time he approached the White House, polygraph tests already had been administered to members of the Joint Service Interagency Advisory Group (JSIAG), a team in Hegseth's front office that was assembled to examine how to counter drug cartels and enhance security on the southern border, people familiar with the matter said. The team includes numerous Special Operations troops and representatives from other government agencies, including the FBI. Col. Ricky Buria, a military aide whom Hegseth has since made a senior adviser, also took a polygraph test and received inconclusive results, officials said, a detail first reported by the Guardian. He submitted paperwork to retire from the Marine Corps and become a political appointee in April. Tests also had been threatened by Hegseth against others, including two top military officers: Navy Adm. Christopher Grady, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims, the director of the Joint Staff. Those threats were first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Hegseth later decided to bypass promoting Sims to a four-star general, despite an earlier plan to do so and intervention from Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior Pentagon officials, people familiar with the matter said. That decision, first reported by the New York Times on Saturday, has irked a number of senior officers, who thought Sims had acted in an apolitical manner and deserved better. The Pentagon declined to respond directly to the reporting about the polygraph tests. 'The Department will not comment on an ongoing investigation,' spokesman Sean Parnell said in a written statement. 'The Fake News Media's obsession with months old workplace gossip is a reflection of the sad and pathetic state of 'journalism' in Washington.' The White House referred questions about the matter to the Pentagon. Weaver and Buria did not respond to requests for comment, while Parlatore declined to comment. The polygraphs came during a period of tremendous upheaval in Hegseth's inner circle that included the defense secretary's firing of three senior Pentagon appointees in April and accusing them of leaking to the media. The aides – Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll and Darin Selnick – disputed that and accused the Pentagon of slandering them. Hegseth's team has presented no evidence to back its claims. The leak investigation began in March with a memo from Joe Kasper, then Hegseth's chief of staff, saying that 'unauthorized disclosures of national security information' demanded 'thorough investigation.' 'The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be in accordance with applicable law and policy,' Kasper wrote in the March 21 memo. The investigation would 'culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense' and 'include a complete record of unauthorized disclosures within the Department of Defense and recommendations to improve such efforts.' The turmoil was compounded just days later by the 'Signalgate' affair, in which Hegseth and other senior national security officials discussed a forthcoming bombing campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen in an unclassified group chat message that inadvertently included an editor from the Atlantic magazine. Hegseth's role in the Signalgate matter has become especially controversial, since his account of planning for the strike, posted on the unclassified app, shared detailed information about the operation before it commenced. The administration has repeatedly said that none of the information was classified. But witnesses later told the Defense Department inspector general's office as part of its ongoing investigation that the shared operational details were taken from a classified email labeled 'SECRET/NOFORN,' meaning release of the information to the public was considered potentially damaging to national security and should not include foreign officials. Kasper voluntarily departed his role as chief of staff in April after months of infighting among Hegseth's senior staff, shifting to the private sector and a part-time Pentagon role as a special government employee. As he backfilled his inner circle around the same time, Hegseth named Buria, Parnell, Weaver and Justin Fulcher, an aide who had just had a falling out with colleagues at the U.S. DOGE Service, as senior advisers. Fulcher also has since departed, exiting his role within days of a Washington Post report that he joined Hegseth's team after storming out of a meeting with a DOGE team leader at the Pentagon and claiming that law enforcement had been summoned to find him. Hegseth angrily confronted the DOGE leader, Yinon Weiss, who told others he had reported Fulcher to another government employee at the Pentagon rather than to the police. Fulcher's actions had also drawn White House scrutiny after he told colleagues that he knew of surveillance measures that could be used to find leakers at the Pentagon, people familiar with the matter said, a detail first reported by the Guardian in June. He was assigned to work with Parlatore on the matter, but administration officials at the White House and the Pentagon later determined that Fulcher had exaggerated his usefulness and the purported evidence he alluded to did not exist, people familiar with the matter said. Fulcher and Hegseth's team have said that his departure from the administration was a mutual decision. Others have questioned that, saying that it appears he was pushed out after losing the faith of senior administration officials.
CNBC
23-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Morgan Stanley's highest conviction picks into earnings
Morgan Stanley expects a handful of stocks that are reporting quarterly results soon to see big gains. Second-quarter earnings season has so far impressed Wall Street, even as investors keep an eye on commentary about tariff-related uncertainty and artificial intelligence spending and demand. Of the 88 S & P 500 companies that have reported results, more than 82% have beaten analysts' estimates, according to FactSet data. Analyst Michelle Weaver wrote in a Tuesday note to clients that Morgan Stanley expects a "normal" rate of companies outpacing earnings estimates this season. "Given the downward EPS revisions we saw in April / May and the subsequent recovery in Earnings Revisions Breadth from –25% to ~1% , we expect the index to deliver 2Q beat rates roughly in line with historical averages (4-5%)," Weaver wrote. She added, earnings should be "top-heavy," led by strong year-over-year "Magnificent Seven" net income growth. Below are five of Morgan Stanley's 13 highest conviction plays. These are stocks in which near-term catalysts should drive "a meaningful move" upward, according to the firm. Morgan Stanley views Nvidia as an earnings winner. The firm rates the chipmaking giant overweight with a $170 price target, which implies 1.8% potential upside. "Expect the pace of revenue and EPS to accelerate on the print, as demand remains very strong and NVDA continues to deliver upside on the supply side having resolved issues with rack scale products," the firm said about the stock. Analysts are bullish that Nvidia's revenue growth in the second half of 2025 and 2026 will improve after the company resumes shipments of previously banned H20 chips to China. CVS Health is another name Morgan Stanley likes, with an overweight rating and a price target that implies the stock could gain about 31%. Analyst Erin Wright called CVS a "compelling turnaround story in Managed Care," given its focus on the Medicare Advantage business, which she said has earnings power. "CVS should be a cleaner print in what has been a volatile period for Managed Care, with another 'beat and maintain' or ~in line quarter likely, in our view, offering welcomed relief," Wright said. CVS in the first quarter exceeded estimates and hiked its earnings guidance , but did not provide a revenue forecast given uncertainty with higher medical costs from more Medicare Advantage patients returning to hospitals. CVS 1Y mountain CVS Health performance over the past year. AI data center play Eaton has room for upside, according to analyst Chris Snyder. He views the stock as attractively positioned heading into earnings due to margins in its Electrical Americas business. "We have confidence in both ETNs pricing power & ability to drive volumes higher given company backlog and ongoing capacity adds," the analyst said.
