ADRs End Higher; Kazia Therapeutics, BRF Trade Actively
February 23 2018 - 5:55PM
Dow Jones News
International stocks trading in New York closed higher
Friday.
The BNY Mellon index of American depositary receipts rose 1.3%
to 156.65. The European index increased 1.2% to 141.59. The Asian
index rose 1.7% to 189.92. The Latin American index increased 0.7%
to 281.28. And the emerging-markets index rose 1.6% to 351.89.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS), BRF SA (BRFS) and Kazia
Therapeutics Ltd. (KZIA) were among those with ADRs that traded
actively.
Royal Bank of Scotland released its fourth-quarter results
Friday, posting a fourth-quarter operating loss of 583 million
pounds ($811.5 million), compared with a GBP4.06 billion loss in
the same period in 2016. ADRs of the bank fell 3.8% to $7.64.
BRF said Friday its revenue fell 0.8% in 2017 from the prior
year and that impacts from an investigation dubbed "Weak Flesh" led
by Brazilian authorities also cut into results. ADRs fell 8% to
$8.73.
Kazia Therapeutics, an Australian cancer-focused drug company,
said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Orphan Drug
Designation to its investigational new drug, GDC-0084, for the
treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common form of brain
cancer. ADRs jumped 7.9% to $5.38.
The U.K. communications regulator published Friday a set of
draft measures aimed at increasing investment in fiber broadband
networks, and eased its price-control proposal on how much BT Group
PLC (BT.A.LN) should charge rival providers for using its physical
infrastructure. The Office of Communications, or Ofcom, said it
would set a monthly cap for BT network division Openreach's basic
superfast broadband service of GBP11.92 ($16.60) by 2021. In March
2017, Ofcom had proposed setting that price at GBP11.23. ADRs of BT
rose 6.2% to $17.25.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 23, 2018 17:40 ET (22:40 GMT)
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