Market movers: Stocks seeing action on Wednesday

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) soared after it reported a third-quarter profit of $2.4-million, up from a profit of $519,000 in the same quarter last year.

“So far we’re seeing the positive momentum ... but it’s something that we will continue to monitor as we go into the holiday period.” Roots isn’t very impacted by the postal strike. Chief executive Meghan Roach told The Canadian Press last month that the company switched a few years ago to using FedEx for the majority of its shipments.

“Given the recent federal and state court decisions to block our proposed merger with Kroger, we have made the difficult decision to terminate the merger agreement,” Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran said. CEO Ryan Cohen told investors in June the company would operate with “a smaller network and more value-added” items as a part of its attempt to boost sales and profitability.

The company has taken advantage of the jump in its stock price by raising around US$3-billion earlier this year through share sales. The immunotherapy, CAN-2409, in combination with radiation therapy, significantly improved the time patients lived without any signs or symptoms of the cancer, compared to radiation alone, the company said on Wednesday.

The company enrolled 745 patients in the trial testing the therapy as a treatment for intermediate-to-high-risk localized prostate cancer. The new targets come as Exxon is riding high. Its Guyana operations are generating huge profits and U.S. shale business is on track to double oil production this year through its acquisition of Pioneer. In LNG, it is a mixed bag with setbacks in its U.S. and Mozambique projects.

The company’s shares were down with many of the projects and targets already known. Exxon said it will add two projects in Guyana by 2030, in line with a previous statement of 7 to 10 total, while its LNG target remains 40 million metric tons per annum. “This is the latest in the series of decisions that GM has announced which underscore our focus on having the right technology for the future of our company and the industry and reflects our commitment to execute with speed and efficiency,” she said on Tuesday.Some of GM’s competitors have already stopped funding autonomous driving businesses, citing the costs and difficulties involved in developing such sophisticated technology.

The company, whose shares have lost nearly 17 per cent of their value this year, is looking to revive sales by closing underperforming stores and relying on its luxury outlets Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury.

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