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I think it is important to understand that we are expecting or the main thing here is coming from our real estate activities, which are now getting close to being finalized.

But we are investing strategically and prudently to advance our business, and we're confident in the choices we have made.

Actual events may differ materially from the projections discussed today.

Looking forward, Barwa plans to selectively monetize this land bank by selling or developing properties based on the prevailing market demand.Now I would like to highlight some key points on the performance of the company for the Q3 2022.

We remain committed to consistently delivering a double-digit total shareholder return as measured by EPS growth and the dividend yield over the long-term.

So we are targeting project more on the urban area, for instance in North America where they are very present, et cetera, et cetera.

We also expect contractual wage increases, maintenance costs, IT investments and training costs to create additional cost pressure in 2012.

Do you foresee a situation where some of the gains that you have made this year which have come due to market share gains might not stick or sustain?

I believe you said you were looking to close on my year end.

Given that the Couche-Tard business started late in the quarter, plus the fact that we have incurred significant onetime start-up and conversion costs for both Couche-Tard and Forrest City, the combined contribution to profits in the third quarter was not reflective of what it will be in the future.

We're also effectively absorbing the decline in revenues across our Transitional and Culinary Arts segments as they complete their teach-out plans.

We still expect to open 37 net new stores for the year and end the year with 629 stores, with the opening of 1 additional store and 3 store closures occurring by the end of the fourth quarter.

Finally, how that positive outlook, coupled with our agenda of driving operational excellence, creating value for all stakeholders and increasing our exposure to future-facing commodities, will enable us to continue to deliver excellent value and returns to shareholders.

For 2019, we expect a better performance in this ratio, considering this perfect improvement in the risk of the portfolios.

We believe our closest competitors were posting somewhere at around 1.8%, 2.3%, 1.8%, I'm just looking at the biggest names there.

When excluding the FX impact, this year-on-year impact of therapeutic apheresis onetime demand in FY 2017 and SG&A increase were included in our original plan, and we will see improvement in the fourth quarter as those items go away.

As more users are clearing services better incorporate capital charges internally into their cost models, I expect we'll see more of them looking to use ASX's service.

And then we're trying to get close to 0% or zero jet production as much as we can for the remaining of the year.

Gross orders for the quarter were $12.7 million, offset by $1.3 million of unused backlog on completed projects.

We did have one impairment on an asset recently, and it's one that we're intending to sell.

Last year, roughly $6 million was specifically invested in programs to reach new patient population either through geographical expansion in GBM or pre-commercial build-out for future launches.

Our ERP system is also playing a role in this process through exceptional inventory management and a tighter workflow, which is contributing to plant productivity increases.

Or are you going to focus on achieving the market consensus forecast?

This is in line with current industry projections.

Fourth target is the new IT infrastructure, complementary with the mainframe, aimed at substantially reducing our cost to serve, making an also low-income customer profitable.

While these results were in line with our original expectations for the quarter, we were definitely not satisfied with our manufacturing operations performance.

These statements made today are based on management's current expectations, assumptions, and beliefs about our business and the environment in which we operate, and our actual results may materially differ from those expressed or implied on today's call.

In light of your comments on strong demand for your coal products and assuming demand stays around where it is today, should we expect your Q3 run rate at about 6.7 million tonnes or 27 million tonnes per year to be sustained in 2014?

This, therefore, exhibits that we can navigate even longer than expected in an economic slowdown, and the business fundamentals remain on strong footprint.

With using partners, acquisitions and our own competencies, we are putting everything in place that the market will need in the future.

In terms of working capital, this is a special project that we already started.

In the upcoming 3 quarters, we expect that maximum EUR 3 million to EUR 5 million restructuring cost, which are covered 100% in our EBIT estimation to achieve more than EUR 200 million in the whole year.

Then I'm talking about on a yearly basis, on a quarterly basis, there could be some [indiscernible] in the trends, but the target for the budget is clearly, to have a double-digit growth in commissions.

As a result, we plan to increase our Abstral revenues by over 50% next year and are setting our 2015 net revenue guidance to between $15 million to $18 million.

SAP's also committed to customers choice as an open ecosystem.

And lastly, on the frac sand side, your competitors are posting $20 to $25 per ton EBITDA profits, and I'm wondering, can you flesh out for us when you expect to get to those levels, I guess, in your wallboard and cement business?

Our taxes in the quarter were a net expense of approximately $900,000 and our effective tax rate was 6.3%, within our expected range of 6% to 7%.

And clearly, we're not -- we're taking projects -- economic projects in a -- forward -- in a much more rigorous way than -- in this pricing environment.

Under CECL, we increased our loss reserves last year based on worsening projected economic scenarios.

But I think it's important to note that in many of our markets, stores actually -- some stores actually remain open and malls are actually open.

I start with Italy, then I will say that roughly you can assume around the CHF 3 million for the wireline market.

We do appreciate your interest in Sigma, and we look forward to our next scheduled conference call to discuss our second fiscal quarter results 2012.

And they're willing to spend more money and capital infrastructure projects, which were both hopeful is going to happen in Q1 or Q2 of next year.

The app is just one great investment that we've done over the last couple of years where we're being able to engage with our fan base, push information to them and use this to eventually turn on direct-to-consumer.

Industry estimates put the growth rate at a high single-digit CAGR to reach an expected $1 billion by 2030.

But it is fair to say that if you look at the activity level, specifically in the areas of the car of the future, the ACES, despite all the pressure on revenues that not just us, but every player in automotive sees, this continues.

New orders in December quarter were technology focused with 56% of the orders received in the quarter targeted toward 28-nanometer and below design rules.

If you were to, and I think this is what you're trying to get into but if you were to just out for estimates of channel inventory, the fourth quarter and the first quarter, you could argue that the first quarter always is slightly up versus the fourth quarter, but I don't think that I'd appreciate your curiosity on that topic but I really do think that because of the seasonal effects that it's a stronger way to look at it or a more valuable way to look at it as they year-over-year as opposed to conservative quarter basis, but I hope the comments are helpful on that.

Our growth and profitability are where we expect them to be.

While the uncertainty of the Brexit decision is now officially behind us, feedback from our key customers in the U.K. suggest they expect the housing market to remain under pressure in the near term and so we anticipate demand that is flat to slightly negative versus 2019.

I mean, are you guys in a stage where you're kind of preferring the M&A side and the cash build is, kind of, in order to pursue that, an element on that decide, what would the metrics look like for a deal you guys would target?

Looking ahead to the full year 2012, given the strength we saw in Q1, we expect to deliver strong results ahead of our long-term financial goals.

The know-how transfer capital projects, et cetera, should be better managed, notwithstanding this change that CO South Africa to make it clear is responsible for the complete business.

We also intend to expand the number of Magellan’s centers of excellence where physicians, medical staff and administrators gain the first-hand experiences with the Magellan.

You mentioned that potentially easing bias interest rate environment that the bank's exposure to securitization funding and term deposit funding would provide some buffer or some benefit to against lower lending rates -- potentially lower lending rates in the future.

And whether that be strategic investments, as I mentioned regarding growing the investment at the Derby, to as we've mentioned, the $16 million that was invested at the Derby for this year, the $37 million that we're investing in the Starting Gate Suite addition for next year that will help us grow the business, we're always looking at things that will help us sustain and support the growth of the business in the long term, where we're getting -- supporting an acceptable return on cost of capital for the long term.

If the customers like it, as it seems to be, I believe that we can give to the telecom a second upside reasonably good.

I think the comments that you made and the outlook on the consumer business are industrywide and they are logical and it make sense.

We are optimistic that these initiatives will help extend our category leadership position and our competitive advantage, and I'm confident that we have the right structure and right leadership to execute for the future.

Then again, do you expect to see a release already in the third quarter?

My understanding is it should be onetime event, but if you could please comment if we should expect anything like that for the next quarter or next couple of quarters?

In Brazil, which is a market that remains very dynamic, we increased prices in March.

And when you talk merchant commissions, Jed, I assume that you're just looking merchant gross profit divided by merchant gross booking?

They need a partner like ePlus to facilitate their plans.

So we definitely believe we can achieve them, the financial results we need to.

And so those two projects, the first one is the $700-million new pulp line at the Bratsk pulp mill, which is scheduled for start-up in the second quarter of 2012.

But given the dynamics and the fact that the pace of acceleration in Q3 is not happening at the rate that we had projected when we spoke to back in early May, we just thought it was more prudent, based on everything that we're seeing and the fact that customers are having extended work from home and the coronavirus situation continues to have a lot of volatility around it, it was just more prudent to go ahead and increase the ACV to take a look at what happened relative to currency, but not change our outlook on the full year.

Our professionals, investment professionals have been actively meeting with existing clients to assure that the process for investing remains intact, and this is being very well received by our investors.

Yes, I think the way we see -- the plan is no different than what we laid out in our Investor Day, Mike, right?

On the other hand, demand for European cruises continues to accelerate, even above last year's enviable strength.

So what does the guidance assumed for total sales growth?

The majority of that is kind of ongoing CapEx, none of that includes any potential CapEx for any of our major transmission projects, other than permitting and siting, because those projects really wouldn't be kicking in the year until outside of that 2013 time frame.

As far as some of these projections on how much we could make in terms of procuring licensing fees, our current expectation is the licensing revenue will be comprised of two key components, technology access fee, which is going to be an upfront one-time payment to Lightbridge from a fuel vendor that will be a good range in the millions of dollars and for, until we negotiate an actual agreement we can’t speculate to give a specific number, because of short-term negotiations, but that’s one element.

The largest driver of the backlog was the $226 million of new bookings in the quarter, offset by revenue recognized during the quarter as well as some amendments and adjustments to book project configurations.

We anticipate a slowdown in the conversion of non-COVID-19 business until our clients and prospects have stabilized their operating environments and have greater financial certainty.

So I think others have echoed that executing these projects quickly and on time on budget very safely with a high quality is what we're focused on.

Our HQ team has rallied behind me, everyone is an owner mindset we approach our business with, and we continue to look for creative ways to reduce our expenses to free up further funding to accelerate our strategic initiatives as we move into 2021.

It is anticipated that the global radiopharmaceuticals market will grow again by about 7% in 2021 to reach about USD 6 billion.

Just a handful of large project pursuits have been put on hold while developers assess their -- the viability of their program.

But of course, our main objective is the consumer marketplace, where we have a brand presence and continue to grow our brand.

To accelerate our growth through new customer and third-party partnerships, and build a leading position in the local Healthcare Services market.

So at that time, we said when treasuries were about 3.50%, if we can issue 10-year debt at 5.5%, that works for us and we move forward, and we hedged half of our projected offering.

And then as the turf vendors would begin to execute on the plan, then obviously, that really won't yet and can't, I believe, occur until after a particular state opts in, then we will actually start to receive applications and then be in a position to move forward.

So we do like smaller businesses because we believe that's where the information advantage can be gained.

The Brickworks now owns 94.3 million shares or just under 40%, 39.4%, and it's important earnings of cash flow for us going forward, and as we've mentioned before, we have no intention at this point in time of selling any more soul shares.

Excluding [ the impact ] of mark-to-market futures contract activity in the current quarter, [ adjusted ] diluted earnings per unit of $1.05 exceeded our guidance [ of $0.95 ] provided back in May.

We remain deeply committed to both the future of Macau, and the future success of the more than 28,000 Sands China team members are an important part of the Sands family.

In the second quarter, the company recorded a bargain purchase gain upon consummation of the acquisition of LaBranche because the fair value of LaBranche's identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed exceeded the fair value of the consideration pay.

I think it's reasonable to assume that if we go for sort of the shared service set up on a regional basis, assuming that we'll have our North America and western Europe and then, potentially, something over in Asia to support our business, I think that part of the set up of that would most likely be capitalized on the basis of the matching principle that we would capitalize some and then when we start to get the benefit, we would depreciate or amortize those capitalizations against improved income.

In August of this year, we entered into a $310 million accelerated share repurchase agreement, which settled in the quarter, retiring approximately 2.8 million shares.

We would like to continue maintaining our sound financial base, while also ensuring to be prepared for the future cash out events accompanied by the capital expenditures.

We feel good about the fact that since we do similar work for all 3 and all 3 have been very good and long standing customer to us that we would believe going into that process that we are well-positioned.

Grupo HIMA, that was the investment that you guys, I believe, still have on accrual status and marked it by 64% of cost.

Just a question on Sapa, it looks like the results are very, very strong from Sapa, and to be frank there, they're much better than I ever expected when you formed this JV.

Or do we capitalize on our progress and continue to invest with confidence using our balance sheet?

And also there was mention in the press release about health care costs as they apply to, I believe, to the COGS line.

And certainly, what's going on in the markets right now by no means deters us from that commitment.

And this was something that we had planned and to show absolute vertical integration, it gives us a really good strategic positioning on modular LNG and the higher-margin markets.

We believe that the African rising narrative has been postponed, it has definitely not been canceled, and we remain optimistic about our investment case.

The former GTI Diagnostics, which we acquired in December of 2010, added a few hundred basis points to product sales as expected.