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U.S. equities danced around the unchanged line — amid lingering fears about President Trump’s pro-growth agenda as well as hawkish commentary out of the Federal Reserve — despite an energy-sector surge driven by a smaller-than-expected oil inventory build.

In the end, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.2%, the S&P 500 gained 0.1%, the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.4% and the Russell 2000 gained 0.3%. Treasury bonds were stronger, the dollar was mostly higher, gold lost 0.2% and crude oil gained 2.4%.

virtual stock exchange: Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc.(STAF)

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[By Bryan Murphy]
Look out ManpowerGroup Inc. (NYSE:MAN). And Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE:RHI)? You may want to look over your shoulder as well. A young-and-hungry staffing solutions competitor named Staffing 360 Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:STAF) is coming on strong, and just proved it again today. Some of its preliminary fiscal Q2 numbers were reported today, and they extend what’s become a long-term growth streak.

The definition of a roll-up isn’t a hard and fast one, though even the broad brush strokes paint a pretty clear picture. Investopedia defines a roll-up (also known as a “roll up” or a “rollup”) a merger that occurs when investors (often private equity firms) buy up companies in the same market and merge them together. Roll-ups combine multiple small companies into something bigger and better to be able to enjoy economies of scale. Private equity firms use roll-ups to rationalize competition in crowded and/or fragmented markets and to combine companies with complementary capabilities into a full-service business.

It’s also the kind of strategy Staffing 360 Solutions is executing, with great success. For the fiscal quarter ending in November, Staffing 360 Solutions has pre-reported revenue of $47 million, and a gross profit of $8.1 million. Those figures are up 14% and 8%, respectively, year-over-year.
[By Peter Graham]
Small cap staffing stock Staffing 360 Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: STAF), which is in the midst of a global buy-and-build strategy through the acquisition of domestic and international staffing organizations with operations in the US and UK, hasannounced thatthe Company and its board of directors have rejected a recent buyout proposal for $1.10 per share by the Jackson Investment Group.The proposal by Jackson Investment Group was received by the Company on Thursday, March 23, 2017 and delivered to the Board on Friday, March 24, 2017.
[By Matthew Briar]

If there was any lingering doubt about Staffing 360 Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:STAF), it was wiped away today. The IT staffing firm’s second quarter numbers verify the long-standing growth trend is still well intact. Better still, even as the top line rises, expense-cuts supported by all the synergies of its recent acquisitions have allowed the bottom line to improve by even more.

Even before today’s official Q2 announcement we knew that last quarter’s revenue would roll in at $47.1 million and gross profits would end up at $8.1 million. Those figures were up 14% and 8.4%, respectively. What we didn’t know about STAF until today is that the net loss shrank from $3.4 million a year earlier to only $1.5 million now. EBITDA of $1.4 million was about the same as the EBITDA of $1.3 million generated in the second fiscal quarter of the prior year.

The progress march continues for Staffing 360 Solutions.
[By Bryan Murphy]
It may not get there overnight. In fact, it almost assuredly won’t get there overnight. If Greenridge Global Equity Research is right though, then eventually, Staffing 360 Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:STAF) shares are going to reach a value of $3.00, up 322% from their present value.

That would be a massive move for STAF, and though stocks can and do move that far, usually it takes so long to muster such a move that analysts don’t even bother looking that far out. It may not take Staffing 360 Solutions as much time to hammer out that triple-digit advance as you might expect, though, once you read through Greenridge’s explanation.

Staffing 360 Solutions is an IT staffing firm. There’s little doubt now’s the right time to be in the business. As much as we’ve come to rely on technology over the course of the past ten year, we’ve not even come close to how we’re going to digitize the next ten years.

A recent conclusion from technology research outfit IDC speaks volumes, saying that by the end of 2017, two-thirds of the CEOs of Global 2000 companies will have digital transformation at the center of their corporate strategies. How are they going to make that happen? Deloitte recently posted some research of its own that should shed some light on the idea. The giant accounting form observed that “In order to maintain the competitive pace of innovation, companies find themselves engaged in a global war for talent.”

That’s a trend also observed by the Department of Labor, which in its 2014-2024 occupational outlook handbook noted: “Employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 12 percent from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. These occupations are expected to add about 488,500 new jobs, from about 3.9 million jobs to about 4.4 million jobs from 2014 to 2024, in part due to a greater emphasis on cloud computing, the collection and storage of big data, more everyday items becoming conn
[By Peter Graham]

Small cap staffing stock Staffing 360 Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: STAF), which is in the midst of a global buy-and-build strategy through the acquisition of domestic and international staffing organizations with operations in the US and UK, pre-announced its unaudited financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended November 30, 2016. Expected revenue rose 14% to$47 million and expected gross profit rose 8% to $8.1 million while for the first six months of the fiscal year, expected revenuerose 23% to$95 million and expected gross profit rose 20% to $16.6 million.