Stocks cruise in result rally amid economic hopes
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January 28, 2021
Stocks headed further north on Wednesday in result season rally with oil sector, especially refineries, blazing the trail amid sentimental support from IMF’s economic growth projections, dealers said.
Pakistan Stock Exchange s (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 shares index gained 0.37 percent or 170.75 points to close at 46,458.13 points. Volumes increased to 610.940 million shares, from 603.240 million shares on Tuesday. KSE-30 shares index also hit a high 0.58 percent or 111.27 points to end at 19,370.27 points level.
Brokerage Topline Securities in its daily market review said higher forecast for global economic growth in 2021 by IMF and ongoing smooth rollover week strengthened investor sentiment with the market making an intraday high of 410 points.
San Antonio-based Army North s medical teams heading to three Texas cities
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Hospitalman Hadlie Hinojosa, assigned to the U.S. Navy s Expeditionary Medical Facility, prepares to deploy in May from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. to New Orleans as part of U.S. Army North’s support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help communities in need.Photo by MC2 Devin Bowser /
U.S. Army North has ordered 80 military personnel to help hospitals in Abilene, Lufkin and Eagle Pass in the nation’s ongoing battle against coronavirus.
Acting at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the command based at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston has conducted similar missions across the country over the past several months, including in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Wisconsin and North Dakota.
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Three environmental bills passed their first committees Tuesday. The Senate Conservation Committee passed two bills, one related to a clean fuel standard and the other related to improving air quality in the state, while the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee passed a bill to create an environmental database.
Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, presented SB 11, the Clean Fuel Standard Act, which Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said is one of her legislative priorities for the session. The bill would direct the New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) Environmental Improvement Board to promulgate rules creating a clean fuel standard for transportation fuels. Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Cruces, is the House sponsor of the bill.
CBP Regional Partners Intercept Smuggling Boat with 15 Undocumented Aliens in Santa B
CBP Regional Partners Intercept Smuggling Boat with 15 Undocumented Aliens in Santa Barbara
Release Date: January 25, 2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. - On January 21, 2021, at approximately 10:30 a.m., Regional Coordinating Mechanism (ReCoM) partners working with CBP intercepted a small, open bowed fishing vessel that originated in Mexico (“panga”) with
15 individuals on the beach near Santa Barbara.
A panga boat was discovered by USCG maritime near Santa Barbara, loaded with 15 illegal immigrants
The vessel was discovered during a routine U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) maritime air patrol. The panga-style vessel made landfall on the beach in the area of Goleta, CA. After doing so, the group scattered to avoid apprehension. U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), including the Los Angeles Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (LA-BEST), arrived on scene an
At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 12 Navy personnel deployed to the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico and Arizona to provide support to the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. The medical personnel have been working side-by-side with civilian and U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps health care providers to help treat COVID-19 patients. The relationship with the embedded nursing staff here has been great from the get go, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Sarah Jagger, critical care nurse and Rural Rapid Response team leader said. Patient Care Navy Lt. Kathryn Hrezo, a critical care nurse with the Rural Rapid Response Team, prepares to check patients’ blood sugar levels, while working in the COVID-19 ward at the Northern Navajo Medical Center, Shiprock, N.M., Jan. 2, 2021. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing flexible Defense Department suppor