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18:52 EDT Box Office Battle: 'Jumanji' wins weekend again - Sony's (SNE) "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" maintained the top spot at the domestic box office for the second consecutive weekend, earning $28.1M from 3,849 theaters. The Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart-led remake has received an A- CinemaScore and got a 77% from Rotten Tomatoes. BOX OFFICE RUNNERS-UP: 21st Century Fox (FOXA) "The Post" came in second, posting solid numbers as it expanded nationwide into 2,819 theaters. Steven Spielberg's movie earned $19.3M for the four-day holiday weekend. Behind it was Lionsgate's (LGF.A) newcomer "The Commuter," with $13.7M from almost 2,900 theaters. 21st Century Fox's "The Greatest Showman" placed number four, earning $12.5M and closing in on the $100M mark. Rounding out the top five, Comcast's (CMCSA; CMCSK) "Insidious: The Last Key" ended the holiday weekend with $12.45M from 3,150 theaters. Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include Viacom (VIAB), Walt Disney (DIS) and Warner Bros. (TWX).

18:06 EDT SSR Mining reports production of over 370,000 gold equivalent ounces in 2017 - SSR Mining said it produced over 370,000 gold equivalent ounces in 2017, meeting or exceeding initial guidance for a sixth consecutive year. Delivered attributable gold equivalent production of over 358,000 ounces in 2017 and over 88,000 ounces in Q4, 14% higher than Q3 2017. On a consolidated basis, the company expects to produce 340,000 gold equivalent ounces in 2018 at gold equivalent cash costs of $715-$770 per ounce. On an attributable basis, it expects to produce 325,000 gold equivalent ounces in 2018 at gold equivalent cash costs of $705-$760 per ounce.

17:56 EDT Central Fund of Canada Ltd, Sprott announce plan of arrangement closing date - Central Fund of Canada Limited and Sprott Asset Management announced that the previously announced plan of arrangement is expected to close and be effective on January 16, 2018, subject to the satisfaction of remaining customary conditions to closing. With the closing of the Arrangement on January 16, 2018, trading of the units of the newly-established Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust is expected to commence on the NYSE Arca under the symbol "CEF" and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CEF.U" on such date. Trading of the Class A Shares of CFCL on the NYSE American and the Toronto Stock Exchange will be suspended at the opening of market on such date.

17:49 EDT Nokia wins five-year managed services agreement to manage Optus' network - Nokia and Optus have signed a five-year agreement under which Nokia will manage and maintain key components of Optus' network infrastructure, operations and field maintenance. As part of the contract, Nokia and Optus will develop a Network Operations Centre, building on global best practices and leveraging local talent to deliver higher performance networks. Consumers are increasingly demanding faster networks and seamless connectivity, and operators need to keep pace with these demands without disrupting ongoing operations. To deliver on these growing needs while enhancing its services and ensuring operations efficiency, Optus will tap Nokia's Global Delivery Model to streamline its network operations. Nokia will also leverage its extensive global services expertise to help Optus bundle, standardize and automate its processes. Nokia will also work with Optus to review its network structure and operations periodically to ensure Optus' competitive advantage and ability to respond to customers' evolving needs. Nokia will provide network operations and software services, and deploy robotics, artificial intelligence and extreme automation to help Optus standardize and scale its operations, while Nokia Field Services will manage all components of work associated with mobile base station equipment and facilities.

17:37 EDT Darling Ingredients announces new CFO, Chief Administrative Officer - Darling Ingredients announced that Brad Phillips has become its Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer and John Muse has become its Executive Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer. Both Phillips and Muse will report to Randall Stuewe, the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

17:32 EDT KBR assures no disruptions on U.K. defense project - KBR announced that it expects no disruption to its project being executed through a joint venture with Carillion as a result of Carillion's announced liquidation earlier today. KBR operates a stand-alone Joint Venture with Carillion on Project Allenby Connaught through its Aspire Defence entities, providing high quality design, construction and maintenance services to the British Army for living and working accommodation. The Joint Venture has been successfully performing services for the Ministry of Defence since 2006 and the management and workforce are mature and stable. The company said it has been undergoing contingency planning for the last three months and is well placed to continue operating this contract. Further, it does not expect any disruption to the delivery of services, the performance of the contract or the cash-flow from the contract because of Carillion's liquidation.

17:24 EDT Vermilion Energy acquires oil assets, revises 2018 production guidance - Vermilion Energy announces that it has entered into an arrangement agreement to acquire a private southeast Saskatchewan producer for total cash consideration of $90.8M. Under the terms of the Arrangement, Vermilion has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares in the capital of Privateco, including all Privateco Shares issuable, in accordance with the terms of existing grants of options or warrants, prior to the effective time of the Arrangement, and assume all outstanding debt of the Privateco. The Purchase Price will be funded from Vermilion's existing credit facilities. The Board of Directors of Privateco has unanimously approved the Arrangement and recommended that Privateco shareholders vote in favour of the Arrangement. The Arrangement remains subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of applicable court, Privateco shareholder and regulatory approvals, and is expected to close on or about February 15th, 2018. The Acquisition is accretive on a fully-diluted per share basis for all pertinent metrics including production, fund flows from operations, reserves and net asset value. Making no deduction for undeveloped land value, transaction metrics equate to $13.55 per boe of 2P reserves, and $79,000 per flowing barrel of production. Based on 2018 WTI strip pricing of $61.83/bbl, the operating netback for the Assets is estimated at approximately $51.80 per boe. Using the 2P finding, development and acquisition cost of $19.02 per boe, the Assets are expected to deliver a 2P after-tax fund flows recycle ratio of 2.7 times. As a result of the Acquisition, and based on a mid-February closing date, the company is revising its 2018 production guidance to 75K-77.5K boe/d from 74.5K-76.5K boe/d previously. The company is also increasing its 2018 capital budget to $325M from $315M previously to reflect additional capital activity on these assets planned for the second half of the year.

17:15 EDT Turquoise Hill sees 2018 Oyu Tolgoi copper production 125K-155K tonnes - Oyu Tolgoi is expected to produce 125K-155K tonnes of copper and 240K-280K ounces of gold in concentrates for 2018.

17:04 EDT KNOT Offshore Partners announces Q4 cash distribution of 52c per unit - KNOT Offshore Partners announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash distribution with respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2017, of 52c per unit. This corresponds to $2.08 per outstanding unit on an annualized basis. This cash distribution will be paid on February 15, 2018 to all unitholders of record as of the close of business on February 2, 2018.

16:59 EDT BlackBerry unveils BlackBerry Jarvis at NAIAS - In a keynote address at the North American International Automotive Show, BlackBerry Executive Chairman and CEO, John Chen, unveiled BlackBerry Jarvis, a transformational software cybersecurity product. BlackBerry is initially marketing this solution to automakers, whose complex software supply chains create compelling and urgent use cases that Jarvis can help solve today. BlackBerry also noted that Jarvis is applicable to other industry segments, citing healthcare, industrial automation, aerospace, and defense as examples of other fields with immediate need for this product. Built on the company's decades of cybersecurity expertise and proprietary technology, Jarvis is a one-of-its-kind cloud-based static binary code scanning solution that identifies vulnerabilities in software used in automobiles. Jarvis scans and delivers deep actionable insights in minutes, what would otherwise involve manually scanning that will take large numbers of experts and an impractical amount of time.

16:53 EDT Brink's declares quarterly dividend of 15c - The board of directors of Brink's declared a quarterly dividend of 15c per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on March 1, 2018, to shareholders of record on February 8, 2018.

16:50 EDT Curo announces exercise of underwriter option to Initial Public Offering - Curo Group announced that the underwriters of the company's initial public offering have exercised their option to purchase up to an additional 1,000,000 shares at the initial public offering price, less the underwriting discount to cover over-allotments. As a result of the closing of its initial public offering and the exercise of the option, the Company has issued a total of 7,666,667 shares of common stock at a price of $14 per share. The net proceeds to the company, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by Curo, are approximately $95.3M.

16:46 EDT Raytheon selected for Ballistic Missile Defense System testing, modeling - Raytheon was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a stated maximum value of $641,758M. Under this contract, the contractor will perform ballistic missile defense system test related activities for multiple radar platforms that includes planning, executing, and analyzing sensor performance in BMDS flight tests and ground tests for each test event defined in the BMDS integrated master test plan. The radar test contract effort also includes sensors modeling and simulation activities to include Open Systems Architecture Sensor Model and Open Systems Architecture Signal Injector development and maintenance, integration of OSI with hardware-in-the-loop radar representation, integration of OSI and OSM with the simulation framework, verification and validation support, and stakeholder/event support. This award is the result of a competitively awarded acquisition in which two offers were received. Fiscal 2017 and 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $3,451M are being obligated at time of award. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

16:40 EDT Crescent Point Energy confirms January 2018 dividend - Crescent Point Energy confirms that the dividend to be paid on February 15, 2018, in respect of January 2018 production, for shareholders of record on January 31, 2018, will be CDN$0.03 per share. These dividends are designated as "eligible dividends" for Canadian income tax purposes. For U.S. income tax purposes, Crescent Point's dividends are considered "qualified dividends."

16:35 EDT XL Group announces new Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs, Bermuda - XL Group announced that Leila Madeiros, Senior Vice President, Deputy Director and Corporate Secretary of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers, will join the company in April as Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs, Bermuda.

16:19 EDT Tahoe Resources announces 'significant' workforce reduction in Guatemala - Tahoe Resources announced a significant reduction to Minera San Rafael's workforce at its Escobal Mine in Guatemala.Tahoe has been committed to maintaining Escobal's full workforce since the July 5, 2017 mining license suspension. The Guatemalan Constitutional Court heard the appeals of the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate the Escobal mining license on October 25, 2017. According to Guatemalan law, the Constitutional Court must rule within 5 calendar days of the public hearing. At this time, however, the Constitutional Court has yet to rule. Consequently, given the delay and the inability of the company to resume mining operations, the company terminated 250 Minera San Rafael employees. Prior to the license suspension, Minera San Rafael employed 1,030 people, 97% of whom are Guatemalan and 50% of whom are from the Santa Rosa region. Should the Constitutional Court rule in the next several weeks to uphold the lower court's reinstatement of the Escobal license, further workforce reductions may be avoided. Tahoe remains optimistic that based on legal precedent, the Constitutional Court will issue a favorable ruling reinstating the mining license and Escobal will resume production. At such time, Tahoe will seek to restore its workforce. Tahoe is eager to resume operations at Escobal in order to return benefit to employees, communities, and the region. For every month of delay in operations at Escobal, approximately $4M in taxes and royalties are not being paid to the Government of Guatemala and the local communities.

16:11 EDT Sonoco-Alcore to increase prices for tubes, cores in Europe - Sonoco-Alcore announced it will raise prices for paper-based tubes and cores by up to 7%, depending on product category, effective from shipments beginning on February 1, 2018. Sonoco-Alcore is wholly owned by Sonoco and operates 29 tubes and cores plants and four paperboard mills in Europe.

16:05 EDT SiriusXM, FCA US unveil next generation of in-car audio entertainment - SiriusXM (SIRI) and FCA US LLC (FCAU) announced that SiriusXM's next generation of in-car audio entertainment - delivering a personalized listening experience, with more variety, smart content recommendations and on-demand audio, all through a new best in class user experience in the vehicle - is available to customers for the first time ever, making its debut today in the all-new 2019 Ram 1500 truck. Drivers of the all-new Ram 1500 are the first to have access to SiriusXM with 360L, a new platform that for the first time delivers a "360 degree listening" experience to drivers and their passengers via both satellite and streaming, and offers exciting new features and functionality in the vehicle and beyond. SiriusXM with 360L, which is available on the Ram 1500's Uconnect 4C NAV with 12-inch display with a SiriusXM All Access subscription, can also receive over the air updates to add features and functions that improve the user experience. SiriusXM with 360L delivers SiriusXM's full lineup of more than 200 channels, while enabling the user to enjoy a more personalized "lean back" experience as SiriusXM serves them content recommendations on their touch screen, based on their listening preferences. Drivers and their passengers will find it easier to discover more of what SiriusXM offers, including exclusive SiriusXM On-Demand programming never before available in the dash.

13:34 EDT Shire granted Marketing Authorization for Adynovi in Europe - Shire plc (SHPG) announced that the European Commission has granted Marketing Authorization for Adynovi, an extended half-life recombinant factor VIII treatment, for on-demand and prophylactic use in patients 12 years and older living with hemophilia A. Adynovi is modified to last longer in the blood and potentially require less frequent injections than unmodified Antihemophilic Factor when used to reduce the frequency of bleeding, Shire says in a statement. Adynovi's proprietary PEGylation technology, exclusively licensed from Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), extends the time between treatments and offers a twice-weekly dosing schedule, the company claims. With the approval, Shire is now authorized to market Adynovi in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.