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WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he’d be bringing his brand of populism to the powerful Senate Finance Committee next year, with a wide remit over tax, trade, Social Security, social safety net programs and health care policy. But no final decisions have been made, despite the Vermont independent’s assertion late Friday that he’ll be joining Finance in the new Congress. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.'Insurance is what makes US health care prices so high' David Goldhill at The Washington Post "Trying to force the square peg of insurance into the round hole of health care needs has created a terribly inefficient business," says David Goldhill. Our health insurance model "was designed to pay for emergencies," but the CDC estimates "90% of America's health care expenditure goes toward chronic and mental health conditions." It is "no longer an unexpected need — an insurable risk," he adds. "It has turned into one of our largest expected needs," and "expected needs aren't insurable." Read more 'Tariffs and tariff increases are with us now and will be for the foreseeable future' Jerry Haar at The Hill Trade policy is "conceived, planned and implemented by economists, lawyers and bureaucrats who are far removed from the real world of commercial transactions," says Jerry Haar. "As such, they are very often oblivious to the impacts of trade policy on producers and consumers." But while "tariff increases are here to stay" and "exporters, importers, producers and consumers will all be negatively affected," there is a "silver lining:" tariff increases "will force companies to assess (and reassess) their efficiency and productivity." Read more 'Now might be the time to retire our worst fears about the technology' Christopher Beha at The New York Times "Proponents claim that artificial intelligence will eliminate acts of mental drudgery," says Christopher Beha, while "detractors worry not just that it will eliminate well-paying knowledge sector jobs and increase inequality but also that it will effectively steal the human soul." But "the obsolescence of human culture will almost certainly not come to pass." The root of this worry is "not an overestimation of technology but a radical underestimation of humanity" and the "transformative power of human genius." Read more 'Selling off some of the government's holdings would ease fiscal stress' Thomas Sowell at The Wall Street Journal "The incoming Trump administration will confront some huge financial challenges," says Thomas Sowell, requiring "huge amounts" of government spending. "Where will the government get this money?" Perhaps from selling off the "vast" amount of government-owned land, valued at $1.8 trillion by the Commerce Department. "The federal government owns a little more than one-fourth of the total land area of the United States," Sowell says. "The time is long overdue to consider whether that is the best economic arrangement." Read moreEmpowered Funds LLC raised its stake in ManpowerGroup Inc. ( NYSE:MAN – Free Report ) by 51.2% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 11,190 shares of the business services provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 3,789 shares during the quarter. Empowered Funds LLC’s holdings in ManpowerGroup were worth $823,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in MAN. Tidal Investments LLC lifted its holdings in shares of ManpowerGroup by 179.7% during the 1st quarter. Tidal Investments LLC now owns 17,327 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $1,345,000 after buying an additional 11,132 shares during the last quarter. CWM LLC lifted its stake in ManpowerGroup by 5,109.1% in the second quarter. CWM LLC now owns 7,449 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $520,000 after acquiring an additional 7,306 shares during the last quarter. Quadrature Capital Ltd grew its position in ManpowerGroup by 140.0% in the first quarter. Quadrature Capital Ltd now owns 20,437 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,587,000 after acquiring an additional 11,921 shares in the last quarter. Burney Co. increased its stake in shares of ManpowerGroup by 2.0% during the 1st quarter. Burney Co. now owns 17,607 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,367,000 after purchasing an additional 353 shares during the last quarter. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in shares of ManpowerGroup during the 2nd quarter valued at $667,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.03% of the company’s stock. ManpowerGroup Stock Up 2.8 % ManpowerGroup stock opened at $62.48 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 1.15 and a quick ratio of 1.15. ManpowerGroup Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $59.35 and a fifty-two week high of $80.25. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $67.49 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $70.65. The firm has a market cap of $2.93 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 79.09 and a beta of 1.46. ManpowerGroup Increases Dividend The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 16th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 2nd will be given a $1.545 dividend. This represents a $6.18 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 9.89%. This is a boost from ManpowerGroup’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.01. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 2nd. ManpowerGroup’s dividend payout ratio is currently 389.88%. Wall Street Analyst Weigh In A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Truist Financial decreased their price objective on shares of ManpowerGroup from $78.00 to $74.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a report on Friday, October 18th. UBS Group lowered their price objective on ManpowerGroup from $78.00 to $71.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 18th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets cut their price objective on ManpowerGroup from $87.00 to $71.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, ManpowerGroup currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $76.60. Get Our Latest Report on ManpowerGroup Insider Buying and Selling In other news, CFO John T. Mcginnis bought 8,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, October 23rd. The shares were acquired at an average cost of $62.28 per share, with a total value of $498,240.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 70,639 shares in the company, valued at $4,399,396.92. This represents a 12.77 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink . 2.40% of the stock is currently owned by insiders. ManpowerGroup Profile ( Free Report ) ManpowerGroup Inc provides workforce solutions and services worldwide. The company offers recruitment services, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment of professionals, as well as administrative and industrial positions under the Manpower and Experis brands. It also offers various assessment services; training and development services; career and talent management; and outsourcing services related to human resources functions primarily in the areas of large-scale recruiting and workforce-intensive initiatives. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding MAN? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for ManpowerGroup Inc. ( NYSE:MAN – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for ManpowerGroup Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for ManpowerGroup and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
General Motors said Tuesday it will retreat from the robotaxi business and stop funding its money-losing Cruise autonomous vehicle unit. Instead the Detroit automaker will focus on development of partially automated driver-assist systems for personal vehicles like its Super Cruise, which allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel. > Watch NBC Bay Area News 📺 Streaming free 24/7 GM said it would get out of robotaxis “given the considerable time and resources that would be needed to scale the business, along with an increasingly competitive robotaxi market.” The company said it will combine Cruise's technical team with its own to work on advanced systems to assist drivers. GM bought control of San Francisco-based Cruise automation in 2016 with high hopes of developing a profitable fleet of robotaxis. Over the years GM invested billions in the subsidiary and eventually bought 90% of the company from investors, all while racking up millions in losses. GM’s brushoff of Cruise represents a dramatic about-face from years of full-blown support that left a huge financial dent in the automaker. The company invested $2.4 billion in Cruise only to sustain years of uninterrupted losses, with little in return. Since GM bought a controlling stake in Cruise for $581 million in 2016, the robotaxi service piled up more than $10 billion in operating losses while bringing in less than $500 million in revenue, according to GM shareholder reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The automaker even announced plans for Cruise to generate $1 billion in annual revenue by 2025, but it scaled back spending on the company after one of its autonomous Chevrolet Bolts dragged a San Francisco pedestrian who was hit by another vehicle in 2023. The California Public Utilities Commission alleged Cruise then covered up details of the crash for more than two weeks. The embarrassing incident resulted in Cruise’s license to operate its driverless fleet in California being suspended by regulators and triggered a purge of its leadership — in addition to layoffs that jettisoned about a quarter of its workforce. GM CEO Mary Barra told analysts on a conference call Tuesday the the new unit will focus on personal vehicles and developing systems that can drive by themselves in certain circumstances. The company has agreements to buy another 7% of Cruise and intends to buy the remaining shares so it owns the whole company. The move is another step back from autonomous vehicles, which have proved far harder to develop than companies once anticipated. Two years ago, crosstown rival Ford Motor Co. disbanded its Argo AI autonomous vehicle venture in Pittsburgh that it co-owned with Volkswagen. At the time the company said it didn’t see a path to profitability for a number of years. Yet other companies are pressing forward with plans to deploy autonomous vehicles and expanding their services. Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo is accelerating plans to broaden its robotaxi service beyond areas of metropolitan Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Last week the company said it would begin testing its driverless Jaguars in Miami next year, with plans to start charging for rides in 2026. The move comes less than a month after Waymo opened up its robotaxi service to anyone looking for a ride in an 80-square-mile (129 square kilometer) area of Los Angeles. Waymo also has plans to launch fleets in Atlanta and Austin next year in partership with ride-hailing leader Uber. In April, a company called Aurora Innovation plans to start hauling freight on Texas freeways using fully driverless semis. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said his company plans to have autonomous Models Y and 3 running without human drivers next year. Robotaxis without steering wheels using Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system would be available in 2026 starting in California and Texas, he said. But an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into Full Self-Driving's ability to see in low visibility conditions cast doubt on whether Teslas are ready to be deployed without humans behind the wheel. The agency began the investigation in October after getting reports of four crashes involving “Full Self-Driving” when Teslas encountered sun glare, fog and airborne dust. An Arizona pedestrian was killed in one of the crashes. GM said it will work with Cruise’s leadership to restructure the company and refocus Cruise’s operations on driver assist systems. The company expects the restructuring to reduce spending by more than $1 billion annually. Cruise has about 2,300 employees and will retain a presence in San Francisco, GM said. It’s too early to talk about employment levels until the restructuring is completed next year, a spokesman said. Dave Richardson, senior vice president of software and services engineering, said Cruise will bring its software, artificial intelligence and sensor development to GM to team up on improving GM’s driver-assist systems. “We want to leverage what already has been done as we go forward, and we think we can do that very effectively,” Barra said. Shares of GM rose about 3% in trading after Tuesday's closing bell. They are up about 47% for the year. _____ AP Technology Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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Bunnings, whose in-store facial recognition technology breached privacy laws, partnered with Victoria Police during a trial of the system. Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was heavily critical of the Bunnings system which captured the faces of every person – including children – who entered 63 Bunnings stores in Victoria and New South Wales between November 2018 and November 2021via its CCTVs. Bunnings compared a customer’s face against a “limited database” of less than 500 banned people, working with Victoria Police to identify those individuals, reported The Australian. The recordings of its customers is reported to have stayed within its stores, with no sensitive information uploaded to the cloud or sent to third-party processors. The Wesfarmers-owned chain said that the sole purpose was to prevent violent crime in its stores, and it required human oversight. It noted that its FRT system was only accessible by six “specially trained Bunnings team members who were located in a centralised location”. “No other team members had access to the FRT,” it added. Video explaining why Bunnings says it used FRT. It reportedly did not automatically alert police of a threat. After it detected a customer had been banned from one of its stores for abusive, violent behaviour or committing a crime, one of those six staff members then performed a manual check to verify that it was an accurate match. If there was no match, customer data was reported to be deleted in “0.00417 seconds”. Kind from the OAIC noted though that deploying facial recognition technology “was the most intrusive option, disproportionately interfering with the privacy of everyone who entered its stores, not just high-risk individuals.” Commissioner Kind noted that Bunnings “collected individuals’ sensitive information without consent, failed to take reasonable steps to notify individuals that their personal information was being collected, and did not include required information in its privacy policy.” OAIC Commissioner Carly Kind Bunnings has defended its use of the technology with statistics such as there being a 50 per cent increase in incidents of abuse, threats and assaults in its stores last year. Additionally it noted that for the 12 months ending April 2024, there were about 700,000 retail crime events recorded by Australian retailers with 16 per cent of those constituting threatening or violent behaviour, and 60 per cent of store thefts are conducted by the same 10 per cent of people.
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