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9 – American U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced she was resigning after two years. She gave no reason and denied speculation that she would return to government or politics.

30 – George Herbert Walker Bush, who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993, died at 94. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was among those delivering eulogies at Bush’s state funeral on Dec. 5 at Washington’s National Cathedral.

25 – The Stampeders beat the Ottawa Redblacks 27-16 in the 106th Grey Cup game at Commonwealth Stadium. It was Calgary’s first Grey Cup win since 2014. Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell was named MVP.

26 – General Motors announced it would close five facilities in North America, including its production plant in Oshawa, Ont., as part of a global reorganization that would see the company focus on electric and autonomous vehicle programs. The automaker said the plan would save the company US$6 billion by 2020. The closure in Oshawa, planned for the end of 2019, would affect approximately 2,500 jobs.

voestalpine AG processes, develops, and manufactures steel products worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Steel, High Performance Metals, Metal Engineering, Metal Forming, and Other. The Steel division produces hot and cold-rolled steel strips, as well as electrogalvanized, hot-dip galvanized, and organically coated steel strips; and heavy plates for the energy sector, as well as turbine casings. It serves the automotive, white/consumer goods, building/construction, energy, mechanical engineering, and others. The High Performance Metals segment offers special alloys for the oil and natural gas, aerospace, and energy engineering industries; tool manufacturing, heat treatment, and coating services; and warehousing and preprocessing of special steels, as well as services, including logistics, distribution, and processing for the oil and natural gas industries. The Metal Engineering division offers rails and turnout products, rod wires, drawn wires, seamless tubes, and welding filler materials; track-based monitoring systems for various railway applications; and services for railway sector. The Metal Forming division manufactures special tubes and sections, and precision strip steel products, as well as pre-finished system components made from pressed, punched, and roll-profiled parts for use in automotive, white goods/consumer goods, building/construction, energy, mechanical engineering, and others. It also provides cold-rolled precision strip steel. voestalpine AG is based in Linz, Austria.

(Full Disclosure: VW wanted to show me its new MEB platform, so the company flew me to Dresden, fed me potato soup and schnitzel, and put a nice roof over my head.)

9 – Patriots quarterback Tom Brady broke the NFL record for career touchdown passes including post-season. He threw his 580th touchdown at Miami when he connected with Julian Edelman for a two-yard score. That’s one more TD pass than the previous record set by Peyton Manning.

Households and firms use less electricity by, for instance, adopting new electricity-saving technologies and by making behavioural change. “However, it is important to note that the total impact of the electricity price increase on volumes will not necessarily occur during the 2018/19 financial year due to the time lag effect. The consumers of electricity, for instance, will not be able to adjust completely their consumption behaviour in the short term.”

19 – Global Affairs Canada said it was providing assistance to the family of a third Canadian detained in China. It did not release the person’s name or hometown, but officials said the government had no reason to believe the case is linked to the recent detention of two other Canadians in China tied to the arrest of senior Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.

28 – Senators voted to send Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination for a broader vote on Capitol Hill – but only after Arizona Republican Jeff Flake helped negotiate a week-long FBI investigation into Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault.

This table compares Absolute Software and VOESTALPINE AG/ADR’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Allen Wrenches. Allen wrenches are steel bars, hexagonal in section, bent into L-shapes. The shorter length is called the head, the longer one the handle. Either end can be slid into matching openings in the tops of bolts or machine screws, most often set screws used in tools and machinery to hold one part firmly in position with respect to another. Pulleys on shafts, for example, are often fixed with set screws that are recessed into the body of the pulley.