-- 瑞银证券周三在一份电子邮件报告中指出，花旗集团(C)第一季度业绩“迄今为止在同业中表现最佳”，并在投资者日期间持续吸引市场关注。 瑞银指出，花旗集团的业绩好于预期，服务业务“继续保持强劲势头”，其中财资及贸易解决方案业务表现尤为突出。报告还指出，市场业务也超出市场预期，这主要得益于固定收益、外汇及大宗商品业务基本符合预期，以及股票业务超出华尔街预期21%。 瑞银进一步表示，花旗集团第一季度回购了63亿美元的股票，高于华尔街预期的44亿美元，并且该公司今年的回购规模将超过去年。 瑞银维持对花旗集团的“中性”评级，目标价为132美元。
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The New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission, or ORES, has issued final siting permits to AES (AES) unit AES Clean Power, enabling it to proceed with three wind and solar power generation projects, totaling 343 megawatts, it said last week.Altona Wind in the namesake town will produce up to 107.5 MW, Clinton Wind in Clinton, New York, will generate up to 110.5 MW, and Sugar Maple Solar spread across Croghan and Wilna, will generate up to 125 MW, a statement said.With the issue of the three permits, ORES has now endorsed a total of 35 wind and solar projects with a combined capacity of 5.1 gigawatts, it said, all of which will feed into New York's grid.The Altona and Clinton wind projects will involve repowering, replacing aging, existing turbines there with more efficient ones along with improvements to substations.Fewer turbines will be required overall but the sites' output capacity will rise by 20 MW, the statement said.Clinton will operate from 2028 and Altona from 2029. Residents near the sites will benefit from a share of utility bill credits over 10 years totaling $2.18 million.
Hulic's (TYO:3003) profit attributable to owners of the parent rose 5.6% to 18.1 billion yen in the first quarter from 17.2 billion yen a year earlier.The real estate and insurance company's earnings per share increased to 23.89 yen from 22.57 yen a year ago, according to a Tokyo bourse filing on Monday.Net sales jumped 45% to 226.8 billion yen in Q1 from 156.6 billion yen in the prior-year period.For the full year, the company expects attributable profit of 121 billion yen and EPS of 159.41 yen.Hulic plans to pay interim and year-end dividends of 33.50 yen per share each for the year, which is higher than the amount paid the previous year
MSC Industrial Direct (MSM) has an average rating of hold and mean price target of $98.80, according to analysts polled by FactSet.(covers equity, commodity and economic research from major banks and research firms in North America, Asia and Europe. Research providers may contact us here: https://www..com/contact-us)