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LIVE: Former top execs of First Republic, SVB and Signature Bank testify at House hearing — 5/17/23 – CNBC Television
- LIVE: Former top execs of First Republic, SVB and Signature Bank testify at House hearing — 5/17/23 CNBC Television
- John Fetterman suggests failed Silicon Valley Bank executives should have the same work requirements ‘Republicans want’ for families receiving food stamps Yahoo! Voices
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Exclusive: U.S. regulator seeks sale of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank portfolios, sources say – Reuters
- Exclusive: U.S. regulator seeks sale of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank portfolios, sources say Reuters
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McHenry, Waters Announce First Hearing on Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Failures | Financial Services Committee – House Financial Services Committee
- McHenry, Waters Announce First Hearing on Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Failures | Financial Services Committee House Financial Services Committee
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Warren unveils bill to repeal Trump-era bank deregulation she says led to SVB, Signature collapses – CNBC
- Warren unveils bill to repeal Trump-era bank deregulation she says led to SVB, Signature collapses CNBC
- Elizabeth Warren says the millions in bonuses Silicon Valley Bank executives took home last year should be recovered by regulators: ‘We should claw all that back’ Yahoo Finance
- Silicon Valley Bank collapse would have been ‘prevented’ if not for Trump deregulation, Senate Democrat says Fox Business
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Dow Jones Futures Rise As Regulators Protect All SVB Deposits; Signature Bank Closed | Investor’s Business Daily – Investor’s Business Daily
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Samsung Galaxy S23’s signature color leaks ahead of launch
Reports suggest that Samsung will announce the Galaxy S23 series in the first week of February 2023. Ahead of the announcement, information about the smartphone’s design and specifications has been leaked. Now, we have some exclusive information about the signature colors of the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra.
Signature Galaxy S23 series colors
The Galaxy S23 Ultra’s signature color will be green, while the Galaxy S23 will come in light gold/pink gold. Pink will be the Galaxy S23+ signature color variant. Of course, all three smartphones will come in more color options, but the colors we mentioned will be their signature colors, which means the company will highlight them in its marketing and promotional material.
Previous leaks have revealed that the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra will have a design language that is similar to the Galaxy S22 Ultra. It means that the phones will have individual rings for all the rear-facing cameras. The phones will also feature newer and stronger Gorilla Glass protection and an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance.
All three phones are also rumored to feature brighter 120Hz Super AMOLED screens, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, 8GB/12GB LPDDR5X RAM, 128GB/256GB/512GB UFS 4.0 storage, and a better ultrasonic fingerprint reader. Samsung could also bring satellite connectivity to the Galaxy S23 series for emergency situations, just like the iPhone 14 series.
Notre Dame vs. Clemson score: Irish defense destroys No. 4 Tigers in signature win for Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame delivered a crushing blow to No. 4 Clemson by upsetting the Tigers 35-14 in a banner victory for first-year coach Marcus Freeman. The Fighting Irish used a suffocating defense and elite special teams to frustrate Clemson, limiting the visitors to just 281 yards of total offense and holding the Tigers without a touchdown until the fourth quarter when the game was essentially out of reach.
The Fighting Irish’s offense faced struggles of its own, but Logan Diggs and Audric Estime both surpassed 100 yards on the ground as Notre Dame imposed its will in key situations while averaging 5.6 yards per rush. Initially, however, it was a punt blocked by Jordan Botelho that Prince Kollie returned for a touchdown in the first quarter that gave the home team an early edge.
The defense took over from there as Clemson quarterback DJ Uiagalelei struggled to jumpstart the Tigers offensively. Eventually, he was replaced by five-start true freshman Cade Klubnik late in the third quarter but to no avail. Klubnik’s second pass was intercepted, leading to an Estime touchdown that made it 21-0 with 14:37 remaining.
Marcus Freeman’s signature victory
After embarrassing home losses to Marshall and Stanford earlier in the season, Freeman needed a signature win. This one certainly qualifies. Clemson has consistently been among the sport’s top programs for the past decade, and the Tigers came into the week as one of just six undefeated teams in the sport.
His recruiting work has been stellar; the Fighting Irish currently own the No. 3-ranked class in the 2023 cycle, per 247Sports. But in his first season as a head coach, Freeman needed some on-field accolades to pair with his work on the recruiting trail. He’s got them now, and the Fighting Irish may not be done yet. They figure to be heavy favorites the next two weeks against Navy and Boston College before a big season finale at No. 9 USC. Depending on where the Trojans are in the national landscape at that point, Notre Dame could have yet another chance to play the spoiler role on the national stage.
Clemson CFP implications
The loss does not altogether eliminate Clemson from CFP contention, but it does make the Tigers’ path to the playoff more challenging. With a win over a well-regarded North Carolina team in the ACC Championship Game, Clemson could still make the CFP field as a one-loss team, according CBS Sports expert Jerry Palm. But they may need to win that game convincingly over the No. 17 Tar Heels, who improved to 8-1 with a 31-28 win over Virginia on Saturday.
Clemson still has three must-win regular season games ahead as well, though the Tigers should be heavy favorites in all three contests. Up first is Louisville next week, followed by Miami and South Carolina to close the season. All three are home games.
Clemson quarterback situation
Clemson’s quarterback situation remains unsettled, as evidenced by the fact that coach Dabo Swinney turned to Klubnik for a spark in the second half yet again. But unlike in a 27-21 win over Syracuse two weeks ago, the move backfired. Swinney quickly pulled Klubnik and put Uiagalelei back in the game after Klubnik’s first pass was intercepted.
Where Swinney goes from here will be fascinating to see. Though Uiagalelei has obviously improved since last season, the Tigers do not inspire fear in opponents offensively and Klubnik appears to be the program’s quarterback of the future. With Clemson’s CFP hopes on shaky footing, Swinney’s insistence on sticking with Uiagalelei figures to be tested again in the season’s remaining weeks.
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Astrophysicists “Resolve a Fundamental Signature of Gravity Around a Black Hole”
The emission from M87 has now been resolved into a bright, thin ring (orange colormap), arising from the infinite sequence of additional images of the emission region, and the more diffuse primary image, produced by the photons that come directly toward Earth (in blue contours). When viewed at the imaging resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope, the two components blur together. However, by separately searching for the thin ring, it is possible to sharpen the view of M87, isolating the fingerprint of strong gravity. Credit: Broderick et al. 2022, ApJ, 935, 61
In a vivid confirmation of theoretical prediction, scientists have discerned a sharp ring of light created by photons whipping around the back of a supermassive
Simulations predicted that there should be a thin, bright ring of light, hidden behind the glare of the diffuse orange glow, created by photons flung around the back of the black hole by its intense gravity.
Astrophysicist Avery Broderick led a team of researchers who used sophisticated imaging algorithms to essentially “remaster” the original imagery of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.
“We turned off the searchlight to see the fireflies,” said Broderick, an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute and the
By essentially “peeling off” elements of the imagery, says co-author Hung-Yi Pu, an assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University, “the environment around the black hole can then be clearly revealed.”
To accomplish this, the team of researchers used a new imaging algorithm within the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) analysis framework THEMIS to isolate and extract the distinct ring feature from the original observations of the M87 black hole. They were also able to detect the telltale footprint of a powerful jet blasting outward from the black hole.
The scientists’ findings both confirm theoretical predictions and offer new ways to explore these mysterious objects, which are thought to reside at the heart of most galaxies.
Black holes were long considered unseeable until scientists coaxed them out of hiding with the EHT, a globe-spanning network of telescopes. Using eight observatories on four continents, all pointed at the same spot in the sky and linked together with nanosecond timing; the EHT researchers observed two black holes in 2017.
The EHT collaboration first unveiled the supermassive black hole in M87 in 2019. Then in 2022, it revealed the comparatively small but tumultuous black hole at the heart of our own
Reference: “The Photon Ring in M87*” by Avery E. Broderick, Dominic W. Pesce, Roman Gold, Paul Tiede, Hung-Yi Pu, Richard Anantua, Silke Britzen, Chiara Ceccobello, Koushik Chatterjee, Yongjun Chen, Nicholas S. Conroy, Geoffrey B. Crew, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yuzhu Cui, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Razieh Emami, Joseph Farah, Christian M. Fromm, Peter Galison, Boris Georgiev, Luis C. Ho, David J. James, Britton Jeter, Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales, Jun Yi Koay, Carsten Kramer, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Sang-Sung Lee, Michael Lindqvist, Iván Martí-Vidal, Karl M. Menten, Yosuke Mizuno, James M. Moran, Monika Moscibrodzka, Antonios Nathanail, Joey Neilsen, Chunchong Ni, Jongho Park, Vincent Piétu, Luciano Rezzolla, Angelo Ricarte, Bart Ripperda, Lijing Shao, Fumie Tazaki, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Jonathan Weintroub, Maciek Wielgus, Feng Yuan, Shan-Shan Zhao and Shuo Zhang, 16 August 2022, The Astrophysical Journal.
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c1d
The mysterious companies behind Costco’s Kirkland Signature and Trader Joe’s O’s The hidden companies behind store brands like Kirkland Signatur The real story behind store brands
They have become forces in their own right and make up around 21% of sales in the $1.7 trillion US grocery industry, according to IRI.
But the origins of store brands remain largely secretive.
Retailers aren’t typically forthcoming about the companies that make their brands. And manufacturers, likewise, have little incentive to reveal that they’re creating similar products to their name brands under a different label sold on the cheap.
Many leading national brand manufacturers create private labels for multiple retailers. In the late 1990s more than half of brand manufacturers were estimated to make private goods as well.
Although store brands ostensibly compete with manufacturers’ national brands, manufacturers often have excess capacity on their production lines. To generate additional profit, some will use that extra capacity to make private labels.
Other brand manufacturers will produce private labels as an incentive for retailers, hoping they’ll be rewarded with better shelf space and placement for their own national labels.
“Most manufacturers aren’t open about it,” said Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, a marketing professor at the University of North Carolina who studies private labels and branding. “Manufacturers don’t want it to be known because it undermines the power of their own brands.”
But there are some exceptions. Kimberly-Clark (KMB), the maker of Huggies diapers, produces Kirkland Signature diapers for Costco and Duracell produces Kirkland Signature batteries, Costco (COST) executives have said.
Georgia-Pacific, the maker of Brawny and Dixie, also produces store brands. So does Henkel (HENKY), the manufacturer of Purex and Dial.
Eight O’Clock Coffee and Kenmore
Store labels have been around since the early days of retail and the emergence of consumer brands in the 19th century.
Macy’s sold stoneware whiskey jugs under its own name. Customers could bring back the jugs for refills, according to Christopher Durham, the president of the Velocity Institute, a trade association for private brands.
Montgomery Ward developed its own line of aspirin in wooden containers, while the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (aka A&P) sold branded spices with the slogan “Take the Grandmother’s Advice, Use A&P Spices.” A&P later developed Eight O’Clock Coffee, one of the most famous private labels of the period.
Yet no US retailer was more successful developing its own brands than Sears, Roebuck.
In 1925, Sears created the Allstate brand for car tires. A few years later, Sears launched its first Craftsman wrench, according to Durham. Its Kenmore line, which started as a sewing machine brand in 1913 before branching into vacuums and other home appliances, became the leading home appliance brand in the United States.
These private labels were the exception, however.
For most of the 20th century, national brands such as Jell-O, H.J. Heinz, Campbell Soup (CPB) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) had power over stores. These manufacturers flooded the airwaves and newspapers with advertisements extolling the advantages of their products.
Most customers were fiercely loyal to specific brands, not retailers. A store that didn’t carry major labels would likely get crushed, which gave manufacturers immense leverage.
Additionally, many store brands were also considered dull, cheap knockoffs of national brands.
The low point of private label came during the 1970s, Durham said, when stores seeking to cut costs and rolled out generics with basic white backgrounds and black letters identifying the product — beer, soap, cola, beans and other staples.
Shopper loyalty
Retailers make private label brands for a variety of reasons, including to boost profitability and sometimes as a negotiating tool against brands.
Private brands often carry profit margins that are 20% to 40% higher than national brands because stores don’t have to pay the advertising, distribution or other markup costs that are embedded in major brands’ prices.
In the mid-20th century, many retailers started to develop their own labels to claw back bargaining power from dominant suppliers and keep their prices in check. As the US retail industry has consolidated in recent decades, the power dynamic between retailers and suppliers reversed. Now, stores have more leverage to introduce their own labels — whether name brands like it or not.
“Forty years ago, Walmart pissing off P&G would be a risky situation. Now, Walmart is much bigger than P&G,” said Steenkamp, the marketing professor.
Today, stores’ private brand operations are more sophisticated than ever and a much bigger focus for chains.
Stores are likelier these days to develop a distinctive private brand or product to stand out against competitors and create shopper loyalty, said Krishnakumar Davey, the president of client engagement at IRI.
Costco (COST), for example, will decide to make a Kirkland Signature product because a leading brand won’t sell to the retailer. Or Costco believes the name brand’s prices have gotten too high and it can make its own similar-quality product and sell it for 20% less.
Costco hasn’t lost any relationships with suppliers by launching its own Kirkland products, but those brands are not usually pleased when Costco introduces one, company CFO Richard Galanti said in an interview earlier this year.
Retailers have been sued for creating products that too closely resemble national brands. The owner of golf ball-brand Titleist sued Costco for patent infringement, while Williams-Sonoma (WSM) sued Amazon (AMZN) for selling “knockoffs” under its own brand. Both cases were settled.
The US House Judiciary Committee and other lawmakers and regulators around the world have investigated whether Amazon uses data from sellers to create its own brands and unlawfully favors its own brands on its website.
Amazon has said it doesn’t use the data from individual third-party sellers to inform the development of its own private brands and does not favor its own products on the site.
Most stores start small with their own brands. Grocers, for example, will often first introduce a shelf-stable product like pasta, flour, sugar or rice that’s easier to make and where brand loyalty within the category isn’t strong.
“You don’t start with the most difficult things,” Steenkamp said. “As stores build more experience and success, then they enter new categories.”
How to find out who makes store brands
So how do you tell who’s behind your favorite store brands?
Product recalls are often the most revealing way to find out which brand manufacturers are behind specific private labels.
Last year, for example, Dole recalled fresh salads and vegetables, including private brands for Walmart, Kroger and H-E-B.
J.M. Smucker (SJM) recalled certain Jif peanut butter products this year, as well as store-branded items it made for Giant Eagle, Wawa and Safeway. Large companies such as Conagra (CAG) and McCain Foods have recalled products from Trader Joe’s.
Then there are the dedicated private label manufacturers, such as Treehouse Foods (THS), which makes snacks under the labels of supermarkets, big-box chains and other retailers. Nearly one-quarter of the company’s $4.3 billion in sales last year, for example, came from Walmart (WMT).
James Walser, who led the launch of Target’s (TGT) up & up household basics and personal care brand in 2009, said that Target tried to move away from national brand manufacturers during up & up’s development to nimbler suppliers focused solely on making private labels.
Some large retailers also make their own private labels. Kroger, for example, makes about 30% of its own private products.
Perhaps the strangest store brand manufacturers are retailers that make private brands for their…competitors: Safeway-owned Lucerne Foods manufactures private labels for Safeway’s rivals.