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Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Compass Point Reaffirms Their Hold Rating on American Express (AXP)
In a report released today, Dave Rochester from Compass Point maintained a Hold rating on American Express, with a price target of $299.00. The company's shares opened today at $311.86. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. According to TipRanks, Rochester is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 10.0% and a 65.56% success rate. In addition to Compass Point, American Express also received a Hold from Monness's Gustavo Gala in a report issued today. However, on the same day, William Blair reiterated a Buy rating on American Express (NYSE: AXP). The company has a one-year high of $329.14 and a one-year low of $220.43. Currently, American Express has an average volume of 2.74M. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 57 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of AXP in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in May 2025, Rafael Marquez, the President of AXP sold 12,000.00 shares for a total of $3,563,160.00.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Man Who Murdered Parents, Siblings with Ax and then Mutilated Body as Teen Will Soon Go Free
NEED TO KNOW David Brom, convicted of killing his parents and two younger siblings in 1988 at age 16, will be released from custody on July 29, 2025, after more than 35 years in prison His release follows a 2023 Minnesota law allowing juvenile offenders serving life to be eligible for parole after 15 years Brom has expressed remorse and claimed personal transformationAfter spending more than three decades behind bars for brutally killing his parents and two younger siblings, David Brom will soon be released from Minnesota state custody. Brom, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1988 murders, is expected to be released on July 29, 2025, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections website. According to CBS News, KARE 11 and the Post Bulletin, authorities said Brom was 16 when he used an ax to kill his parents, 13-year-old sister, and 11-year-old brother in their Rochester, Minn., home. He was found guilty in 1989 of four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. A motive has remained unclear. Brom became eligible for early monitored release after a state law passed in 2023 allowed juvenile offenders serving life to become eligible for parole after 15 years, the Post Bulletin reports. He will released to a halfway house in Twin Cities as part of a work release program, which the Minnesota DOC says is a "standard process when those serving a life sentence are transitioned from a correctional facility to a monitored community setting," KARE 11 reports. Per the Post Bulletin, Brom will be supervised by a case manager and monitored with a GPS tracking device. His next board appearance is scheduled for January 2026. Earlier this year, Brom told the state's supervised released board that he's a "good example of what a transformation can look like" behind bars and apologized to his victims' loved ones, KARE 11 reports. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. 'I can assure anyone now looking at this case, this office completely understood and appreciated the significance of trying Mr. Brom, 16 years old at the time of the offense, as an adult and seeking to sentence him to prison for most of the rest of his natural life. It was not a decision taken lightly,' former Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem said in 2023, per KAAL-TV. Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson, who was called to the crime scene in 1988, shared his reaction to Brom's release in a video posted to Facebook on July 16. "I cannot stop what is already in motion, and I, we, as the public, must trust the parole board's decision and must hope Mr. Brom is ready for this transition in his life," the sheriff said. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Convicted ax killer David Brom says 'cloud of depression' impacted his thoughts in 1988
Jul. 18—ROCHESTER — David Brom said he felt like depression had been clouding his thoughts and emotions when he used an ax to kill his parents and two younger siblings in 1988. Members of the Minnesota Department of Corrections Supervised Release Board had to reconcile those acts carried out by Brom at age 16 with the 53-year-old man who appeared before them with a nearly spotless 37-year incarceration record. Brom had "changed everything about myself," he told the board in a January 2025 hearing reviewing his eligibility for release. Brom said he understood that the effects of his actions went beyond the lives he took and that his crimes affected the community and well as his family — "the family," as he referred to them. He said he understood his actions affected law enforcement, the community, people in the courts and the church his family attended. "I caused tremendous loss, incredible grief and pain left them with confusion and unanswered questions," Brom said. "I apologize for the ripple effects of losing an entire family in such a horrific way." "The gravity of this offense is enormous," said Paul Schnell, Minnesota Department of Corrections commissioner of corrections. However, Schnell and release board members noted that Brom has continued his education while incarcerated, and mentored other people in custody by working toward becoming an inmate chaplain. His only infraction in more than 37 years of custody was a single incident in which he had more people than permitted in his cell at one time. Schnell asked Brom to describe his crimes through the lens of his years of counseling, education and model inmate behavior. Brom said depression had "clouded his thoughts" and hampered his ability to process emotions when he carried out four brutal murders while he was a Lourdes High School student. "I had grown to a short sighted view that I thought these things were going to last forever," he said. "In the cloud of depression, I started to believe that other people were at fault for how I felt." Brom was convicted in 1989 of the four murders and sentenced to three consecutive life sentences — each carrying a minimum of 17 years in prison. Counting his time served in jail leading up to his trial, Brom was not eligible for release until 2037. However, a 2023 Minnesota law gives offenders convicted as juveniles a chance for review after they serve 15 or more years of a sentence. Although Brom had only started serving time for his third sentence at the beginning of 2022, he is eligible for parole or supervised release. Brom will be eligible for release July 29 to a supervised work release program at a Twin Cities halfway house. He will remain in state custody and be monitored by GPS, according to Aaron Swanum, Minnesota Department of Corrections media information officer. After six months, he will be reviewed for eligibility for parole. Complicating the decision to allow Brom to move toward release was the effect the decision would have on the community. Ultimately the board decided not to have Brom return to Olmsted County. In the January hearing, members suggested getting feedback about the decision. That's something Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson was more than willing to provide. As a deputy with the Olmsted County Sheriff's office in 1988, Torgerson was one of the first law enforcement officers on the scene of the murders . He responded to a call from Lourdes High School officials about a rumor Feb. 18, 1988, that Brom had hurt and possibly killed his father. Torgerson discovered the bodies of all four family members in the upstairs of the Brom home on the north outskirts of Rochester. "(I)t is still hard for me to accept and forget the sights and smells of what I saw that Thursday evening in 1988," Torgerson wrote in a statement Wednesday, July 16, 2025 responding to the SRB's decision to begin Brom's transition to parole. Togerson said he was asked in December prior to the hearing to provide written input about the decision to release Brom and that he spoke with one of the Department of Corrections commission members. In that written statement to the board that Torgerson later echoed in the public statement he made Wednesday, Torgerson said Brom has twice benefited from leniency. The first time was when his sentence for killing his youngest sister Diane was made concurrent with his sentence for killing his younger brother Ricky. "With the vicious severity and the needless nature of the killings of his little brother and sister it seemed he should have been expected to serve full sentences for both," Torgerson said. Brom's second break came with the 2023 legislation, Torgerson added. Torgerson said the sentencing decision disregarded community sentiment in 1989 and that the SRB's decision allowing Brom to move toward release at the end of the month likely does as well in 2025. Torgerson said he heard about Brom's new release date from local media. Although Torgerson said he feels his input didn't influence the SRB's decision, he said the decision has been made and that whatever happens next is up to Brom. "I hope and pray he has changed, can control his anger, and other emotions," Togerson said. "At this point we must trust he will."
Medscape
3 days ago
- Health
- Medscape
AI Can Spot Lurking Heart Condition
Artificial intelligence can detect cardiac amyloidosis from a short video of a heartbeat, according to new research in the European Heart Journal . Cardiac amyloidosis results when misshaped or misfolded proteins lodge throughout the heart, forcing it to work harder to pump blood. The condition can lead to thicker heart walls, is more common in older adults, and has features similar to those of hypertensive heart disease or aortic stenosis. Diagnosis is challenging, particularly in earlier disease stages, when thicker heart walls are not apparent on an echocardiogram. 'If the patient has symptoms we can't explain and if the echo isn't quite normal, it would be reasonable to apply this AI model to see if they have amyloid,' said Patricia Pellikka, MD, the Betty Knight Scripps Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Clinical Research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a co-author of the new study. Those symptoms could be nonspecific, such as shortness of breath, fatigue, or swollen ankles, Pellikka said. Cardiac amyloidosis is definitively diagnosed with a biopsy or blood and urine analysis. Although rare, the number of cases appears to be rising. The prevalence rate rose from 8 to 17 per 100,000 person-years from 2000 to 2012, according to an analysis published in Circulation: Heart Failure . A 2025 analysis by researchers at Mayo Clinic found an overall prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis of 1.25% among more than 30,000 people who received an echocardiogram, with a greater incidence in people aged 80-89 years than among those aged 60-69. 'Delays in diagnosis are very common with this disease,' said Jeremy Slivnick, MD, a cardiologist at the University of Chicago who helped conduct the latest research. In many cases, a year or more will elapse between the first appearance of symptoms and a diagnosis of amyloidosis, at which point the disease is harder to control, he said. Comparing AI to Other CA Screening Tools The new study validates previous research that led to the 2024 approval of the technology — EchoGo Amyloidosis — in the United States on a diverse population that spanned 18 global research sites. And the research shows that the AI model has broad applicability, Slivnick added. ''This is now an FDA-approved product,' Slivnick said. 'It's really critical that it works on everyone.' Pellikka and her colleagues at Mayo previously worked with Ultromics, the Oxford, UK-based biotech firm that markets EchoGo Amyloidosis, to create an AI algorithm that distinguishes cardiac amyloidosis from other types of heart disease. They fed video clips of echocardiograms of people diagnosed with the disorder into the tool, as well as video clips of people with other heart conditions. These clips showed the heart's four chambers during heartbeats. The new retrospective study tested the AI tool at 18 global sites, with 597 echo videos of people with cardiac amyloidosis and 2122 videos of people with other heart conditions. The AI model effectively spotted all subtypes of amyloidosis in the dataset, with an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.93, a sensitivity of 85% for identifying patients with the condition, and a specificity of 93% for finding those without the disorder. An apical four-chamber view of a patient with newly diagnosed hereditary ATTR amyloidosis. The patient had presented with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. This videoclip was among those used to build the model. Video courtesy of Mayo Clinic/Ultromics Compared with other commonly used diagnostic tests for the condition, including concentrations of transthyretin (which can form amyloid deposits) and measurements of cardiac wall thickness, the AI model spotted more cases of concern. The AUROC for the AI model was 0,93, compared to an AUROC of 0.73 for transthyretin concentration and an AUROC of 0.80 for increased mediation. 'Now we've got therapies for amyloid cardiomyopathy, but they work best if they're applied early in the natural history of the disease. We should be getting people on the treatment they need,' Pellikka said. Several options exist. The FDA has approved three drugs for the treatment of cardiac amyloidosis, each of which can stop further production of amyloid deposits but do not reverse the damage already done. These drugs are tafamidis (Vyndamax), acoramidis (Attruby), and vutrisiran (Amvuttra). Amyloidosis 'is a progressive disease. As of now we don't have anything to reverse the pathology, so the more protein that deposits in the heart, the worse these patients do,' said David Snipelisky, MD, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida. Heart transplants are sometimes an option, Snipelisky said, but in other cases only the medications meant to stop amyloid production are possible. Representatives of any echo lab can upload video clips of suspected cases of cardiac amyloidosis to a secure site maintained by the company, Pellikka said, and receive a result of whether amyloidosis is likely, unlikely, or indeterminate. Although the latest findings show the potential of the algorithm to diagnose cardiac amyloidosis from a single echo image, the next step would be test the tool in a prospective clinical trial, Snipelisky said. Snipelisky reported no relevant financial conflicts of interest. Slivnick reported relationships with GE Healthcare, Pfizer, and BridgeBio. Pellikka reported funding from the National Institutes of Health, Ultromics, and Edwards Lifesciences.
CBS News
3 days ago
- CBS News
David Brom, convicted of killing his family in 1988, to be released from prison at end of month
A Rochester, Minnesota, man convicted of killing four family members with an axe will soon be released from prison. David Brom is scheduled to be released to a Twin Cities halfway house on July 29. He served more than 35 years for the 1988 murders of his parents and two younger siblings. He was 16 at the time. Brom was sentenced to three life sentences, but became eligible for parole under a Minnesota law passed in 2023 that ended juvenile life without parole sentences. Current Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson was one of the first responders called to the scene more than 37 years ago. He released a message reacting to the news of Brom's release. "I cannot stop what is already in motion, and I, we, as the public, must trust the parole board's decision and must hope Mr. Brom is ready for this transition in his life," Togerson said. "I'm very pleased to hear that, but it is still hard for me to accept and forget the sights and smells of what I saw that Thursday evening in 1988." Brom will still be under supervision and be subject to GPS monitoring after his release. Twenty-eight states have banned juvenile life without parole sentences, according to the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth.
