Hill Internationa announced that the company received notification from the New York Stock Exchange of its determination to commence proceedings to delist the company's common stock. Furthermore, the NYSE announced the suspension of the company's common stock. The determination to commence the delisting proceeding is a result of the company requiring more time to become current in filing its late annual and quarterly reports, including its financial statements, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While Hill has made significant progress and has worked diligently with its independent accounting firm to complete its late reports, the company informed the NYSE that it would not become current with its SEC periodic reporting by August 15, 2018. The delay is due to the time and effort necessary to prepare, finalize, and audit the company's financial statements. The company plans to become current with its SEC periodic reports in the third quarter of 2018.

NVIDIA today reinvented computer graphics with the launch of the NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture. The greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006, Turing features new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing which, together for the first time, make real-time ray tracing possible. These two engines - along with more powerful compute for simulation and enhanced rasterization - usher in a new generation of hybrid rendering to address the $250 billion visual effects industry. Hybrid rendering enables cinematic-quality interactive experiences, amazing new effects powered by neural networks and fluid interactivity on highly complex models. The company also unveiled its initial Turing-based products - the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000, Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 5000 GPUs - which will revolutionize the work of some 50 million designers and artists across multiple industries.

Today Carl Icahn released the following statement regarding Cigna Corporation: In light of the ISS and Glass Lewis recommendations in favor of the Cigna (CI) / Express Scripts (ESRX) transaction and the significant stockholder overlap between the two companies, we have informed the SEC that we no longer intend to solicit proxies to vote against the transaction. Reference Link

Methanex announced that it has signed agreements with Pan American Sur SA, Compania General de Combustibles SA, Total Austral SA and Wintershall Energia SA for additional gas supply on an interruptible basis and subject to gas availability in Argentina for its Chile operations through to June 1, 2020. These agreements are subject to the gas suppliers obtaining export permits from the Argentine Government and, based on the policy direction signaled by the Argentine Government, we are optimistic that the export permits will be granted. We expect that these new agreements, combined with existing contracts from other gas producers, will allow for a two-plant operation in Chile during the southern hemisphere summer months and up to a maximum of 75% of a two-plant operation annually.

TriCo Bancshares announced that Peter Wiese has been named the company's new Executive Vice President and CFO effective August 14. Wiese replaces Thomas Reddish, whose employment as Executive Vice President and CFO terminated as of August 13. Reddish's departure is unrelated to the company's financial condition, financial reporting or accounting practices, investments, policies or regulatory condition. Wiese was previously with the Sacramento, California office of the public accounting firm Crowe Horwath LLP, where he was a partner since 2011 specializing in the financial services and banking industries.

"Tomorrow afternoon, Berkshire Hathaway will file its quarterly 13F report with the SEC detailing its domestic equity security holdings. There will likely be press reports emphasizing changes - upward or downward - in the shares owned in various companies. With a few exceptions, Berkshire wishes to avoid owning 10% or more of an investee's shares. Since many investees are repurchasing these shares this intention sometimes requires Berkshire to make minor sales to avoid hitting the 10% threshold. During the second quarter this self-imposed limit caused Berkshire to sell some minor amounts of equity holdings in the banking and the airlines industries, while Berkshire was purchasing shares of other companies in the same industries. These buy and sell decisions did not reflect our investment management's views as to the relative attractiveness of the bought and sold securities but were rather a response to the 10% limitation. Similar situations may occur in future quarterly reports as Berkshire continues to have 9% plus holdings in a number of equity securities that are active repurchasers of their shares."

Lithium Americas (LAC) is pleased to announce that it has entered into definitive transaction agreements to implement a number of transactions, pursuant to which, among other things, a subsidiary of Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) has agreed to sell all of its interest in Minera Exar S.A., the holding company for the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium brine project, to a subsidiary of Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium Co., Ltd. As a result of the Transaction, Ganfeng Lithium will become Lithium Americas' partner in developing and operating the Project, which is currently under development in Jujuy, Argentina. Lithium Americas' interest in Cauchari-Olaroz will increase from 50% to 62.5%, with Ganfeng Lithium holding the remaining 37.5% interest. In connection with the Transaction, Ganfeng Lithium has agreed to provide Lithium Americas with a new $100 million limited recourse, subordinated loan facility to fully fund Lithium Americas' share of Cauchari-Olaroz' capital expenditures. In addition, Lithium Americas and Ganfeng Lithium have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement to explore future opportunities to collaborate and develop lithium resources. The focus of the Strategic Collaboration Agreement will be on technical and financial collaboration with the objective of identifying and developing lithium resource projects in North and South America that leverage both companies' respective strengths.