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Sirius XM Holdings Inc.’s stock rallied 1.7% in premarket trade Wednesday, after the radio company said it added more self-pay subscribers than it expected. The company said it ended 2017 with 27.5 million self-pay subscribers, up 1.56 million from a year ago. In October, the company said it expected about 1.4 million self-pay subscriber additions. Sirius said it expects to “meet or exceed” its 2017 outlook for revenue, free cash flow and adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization). For 2018, the company expects to self-pay net subscriber additions of about 1 million and revenue of $5.7 billion. The FactSet consensus for 2018 revenue is $5.74 billion. The stock has lost 6.0% over the past three months through Tuesday, while the S&P 500 has gained 7.9%.

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Sears Holding Corp. said Wednesday it has raised $100 million in new financing and is seeking an additional $200 million from other counterparties. The troubled department store chain said it has also amended terms on its existing second lien notes and is in talks with other lenders to improve the terms on up to $1 billion of non-first lien debt. “As previously announced, we are actively pursuing transactions to adjust our capital structure in order to generate liquidity and increase our financial flexibility,” Chief Financial Officer Rob Riecker said in a statement. “The new capital we have secured represents meaningful progress towards those objectives and demonstrates that we continue to have options to finance our business.” The company is also planning further streamlining of its operations to achieve cost reductions of $200 million on an annualized basis in 2018 excluding store closures. Shares jumped 5.4% premarket, but have fallen 65% in the last 12 months, while the S&P 500 has gained 21%.

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Luxury clothing and accessories maker Vince Holdings Corp. said Wednesday that same-store sales for the nine-week holiday period through Dec. 30 rose 15.9%. Direct-to-consumer same-store sales rose 8.8% in the period, while merchandise margin for the direct-to-consumer segment rose slight from the year-earlier period. “The new product is resonating with our customers and driving double digit comparable sales growth in our full price direct-to-consumer channels,” Chief Executive Brendan Hoffman said in a statement. “We were also pleased with improved sell-through at our wholesale partners, which we believe bodes well for 2018 performance.” Shares were not yet active premarket, but have fallen 84% in the last 12 months, while the S&P 500 has gained 21%.

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Shares of Signet Jewelers Ltd. sank 5.6% in premarket trade Wednesday, after the diamond jewelry retailer reported holiday-period sales that fell from a year ago. Total sales for the nine weeks ending Dec. 30 declined 3.1% to $1.88 billion, while same-store sales dropped 5.3%. That compares with prior-year declines of 5.1% in total sales to $1.94 billion and 4.6% in same store sales. The company said the latest sales performance were hurt by the credit outsourcing transition. Signet said its e-commerce business grew by a “double-digit” percentage, while Zales Jewelers same-store sales increased 4.6%. The company affirmed its fiscal 2018 same-store sales outlook of down in the mid single-digit percentage range, but raised its earnings-per-share outlook to $6.45 to $6.50 from $6.10 to $6.50 to reflect an expected lower tax rate after the tax reform legislation. The stock has tumbled 14.8% over the past three months through Tuesday, while the SPDR S&P Retail ETF has run up 11.8% and the S&P 500 has climbed 7.9%.

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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea appeared to cause little damage on land but sparked a tsunami warning, which was later canceled, stretching from Mexico to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 125 miles northeast of Honduras and 190 miles south of the Cayman Islands. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued tsunami threats to the coasts of Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Belize and Jamaica, and tsunami advisories for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Local reports said officials were anticipating waves of 1 to 3 feet in some areas. No tsunamis materialized and the warnings were canceled after about an hour.

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A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program late Tuesday night. U.S. District Judge William Alsup approved a request by California and others to block the government from ending the program while their lawsuits are pending in court, and ordered the federal government to continue accepting DACA renewal applications. Alsup called the end of the program “arbitrary and capricious” and said it was likely “based on a flawed legal premise.” DACA protects about 800,000 so-called “Dreamers,” the children of undocumented immigrants. In September, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sesssions announced the program would end, and Congress has yet to come up with an alternative plan despite widespread bipartisan support. Tuesday’s ruling does not allow for new DACA applications. The Justice Department is expected to appeal the ruling.

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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea appeared to cause little damage on land but sparked a tsunami warning stretching from Mexico to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 125 miles northeast of Honduras and 190 miles south of the Cayman Islands. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued tsunami threats to the coasts of Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Belize and Jamaica, and tsunami advisories for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Local reports said officials were anticipating tsunami waves of 1 to 3 feet in some areas.

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North Carolina’s Republican-drawn congressional districts are illegally gerrymandered, a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday, and must be remade in the next two weeks. The circuit court judges found the map unconstitutional on grounds that it unfairly favored Republicans. “We agree with plaintiffs that a wealth of evidence proves the General Assembly’s intent to ‘subordinate’ the interests of non-Republican voters and ‘entrench’ Republican domination of the state’s congressional delegation,” Judge James A. Wynn Jr. wrote in his opinion. North Carolina must draw a new map by Jan. 24, the judges said, warning that the court would appoint an expert to draw a new districting map for the 2018 elections if the state could not. It was the second time this decade that North Carolina’s Republican-drawn congressional districts have been rejected in court.

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The Trump administration said Tuesday it would withdraw Florida from consideration for potential new offshore oil drilling following criticism from Republican Gov. Rick Scott. After meeting with Scott on Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Florida offshore drilling was now “off the table,” according to the Associated Press. Last week, Zinke said nearly all offshore areas on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts would be opened up to potential oil and gas leases. But offshore drilling is deeply unpopular in coastal states because of the risk of environmental catastrophe. On Monday, Maine’s senators voiced opposition to potential drilling off their state, and California’s lawmakers have vowed to fight the Trump administration’s plan.

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Shares of United Continental Holdings Inc. rose 2% late Tuesday after the airline said its December consolidated traffic (revenue passenger miles) increased 2.7% while consolidated capacity (available seat miles) increased 3.7% compared with December 2016. Shares ended the regular session down less than 0.1%.

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