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• FLSmidth (FLIDY) has been awarded an order from El Sewedy Cement Company for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for the expansion of a cement production line. The plant will be built at Ain Soukhna in Suez Governorate, Egypt.
• Prism Technologies Group (PRZM) announced that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unanimously affirmed the patent infringement verdict in favor of its subsidiary, Prism Technologies LLC, against Sprint Spectrum LP d/b/a Sprint PCS (S). In June 2015, a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska found that the accused Sprint network systems and methods infringe multiple claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,387,155 and 8,127,345. Prism was awarded trial damages of $30 million representing a reasonable royalty for Sprint's infringement. Prism was also awarded $2 million in prejudgment interest and will be entitled to post-judgment interest in an amount to be determined.
• On March 6, 2017, the Board of Directors of Support.com (SPRT) appointed Richard Bloom, the current interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of the Company, effective as of February 28, 2017. Mr. Bloom has been interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since October 28, 2016 and has served as a director since June, 2016.
• Avino Silver & Gold (ASM) issued a statement detailing that British Columbia mining and exploration icon Louis Wolfin, who founded Avino Silver & Gold Mines in 1968 and ran the company for over 30 years, died peacefully at his home on Friday, March 3. He was 85 years old.
• In order to further implement the policy requirements and work deployment of the State regarding network speed upgrade & tariff reduction, China Unicom (CHU) announces that it will substantially reduce Internet private line access tariff for small and medium enterprises, reduce international long-distance call tariff, and, from 1 October 2017 onwards, stop charging mobile handset subscribers domestic long-distance and roaming fee. The Company expects that the aforementioned tariff reduction measures will impact the operating revenue and net profit of the Company to a certain extent. The Company will continue to deepen the implementation of Focus Strategy, accelerate innovative transformation and optimise business structure so as to achieve continuous healthy business development along with the implementation of speed upgrade and tariff reduction.

• The global equity markets are mixed but little changed across the board this morning. S&P Futures are down ~0.2% and trading near the bottom end of the 5-point nightly range.
• In Asia, the Nikkei closed 0.2% lower, extending losses from the prior day. Macro-data was absent in Japan. Gains is the Energy sector were offset by losses among Financials. Exporters were also mixed with limited currency fluctuations in the yen across most pairs during the session.
• China saw a small gain in the Shanghai of 0.3%, but the most significant economic news came out after the stock market was closed. As such, the state reported FX reserves for February of $3.005 trln, better than the expectation of $2.969 trln. During the Chinese trading hours, traders the benchmark index was rangebound with traders appearing to have only a limited appetite for stocks, particularly with another small liquidity injection from the PBOC of ~CNY30 bln.
• European bourses have seen limited movement thus far and continue to straddle the flat line in the early stages of Tuesday's activity. Investors were met with a mixed bag of economic releases with the most concerning being a considerable fall in Germany's Factory Orders in January of 7.4%, missing the consensus estimate of -2.5%, and coming off a +5.2% reading in December. This has led to a relatively choppy session. Corporate earnings were relatively light, also lending to indecisive order flow.

Market Updates:

• S&P Futures vs Fair Value: -3.00 
• 10 yr Note: 2.4926% 
• USD/JPY: 113.93 -0.04 
• EUR/USD: 1.0572 -0.0010
• Europe: FTSE +0.1% DAX +0.1% CAC -0.3% 
• Asia: Hang Seng +0.4% Shanghai +0.3% Nikkei -0.2% 
• Commodities: Gold (1224.40 -1.10) Silver (17.73 -0.04) crude (53.35 +0.15) 

US Econ Data

• January Trade Balance (8:30am)
• January Consumer Credit (3pm)