(Reuters) -Top Chinese cities Shanghai and Shenzhen are planning to lift key remaining restrictions on home purchases to attract potential buyers and shore up their flagging real estate markets, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The changes will allow people from other places in China to buy homes in the popular cities, which had been previously tightly controlled...

04:16 PM EDT, 09/19/2024 (MT Newswires) -- General Dynamics' ( GD ) General Dynamics Information Technology unit said Thursday it won a $299 million contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue support for the Pentagon's network infrastructure. The contract was awarded through the joint service provider enterprise transport management-next generation program and has a base period of one...

04:22 PM EDT, 09/19/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Gajendra Sanjay, Director, on September 17, 2024, sold 76,701 shares in Astera Labs ( ALAB ) for $3,475,721. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Gajendra Sanjay has control over a total of 3,559,335 shares of the company, with 2,704,335 shares held directly and 855,000 controlled indirectly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736297/000173629724000030/xslF345X05/wk-form4_1726777127.xml Price: 47.18,...

(Reuters) -IT services firm Accenture ( ACN ) on Thursday unveiled a $4.0 billion share buyback and reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue thanks to demand from companies looking to adopt generative artificial intelligence technology. Shares of the company were up nearly 7% in premarket trading. The Dublin-based company reported fourth-quarter revenue of $16.41 billion, compared with analysts expectations of $16.38 billion,...