To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to [email protected]. There is no option to place them through our website. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions.
**General Information:**
– Your full name
– Address (City, State, Zip Code)
– Phone number
– An alternate phone number (if any)
**Obituary Specification:**
– Name of Deceased
– Obituary Text
– A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable; TIF and other files are accepted. We will contact you if there are any issues with the photo.
– Ad Run dates
There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply. If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply. Contact us for more information.
**Policies:**
– **Verification of Death:** To publish obituaries, a name and phone number of the funeral home or cremation society handling the arrangements is required. We must contact them during their business hours to verify the death.
– If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification. Please allow enough time for contact, especially during limited weekend hours.
– A death certificate is also acceptable for verification, but only one of these options is necessary.
– **Guestbook and Outside Websites:** We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead. Contact us with any questions regarding this matter.
**Obituary Process:**
Once your submission is complete, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and the days the notice is scheduled to appear. Please review the proof carefully.
We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day’s deadlines. After publication, we are not responsible for errors that occur after final proofing.
**Online:** Changes to an online obituary can be handled through the obituary desk. Call us with further questions.
**Payment Procedure:**
Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received and approved the proof.
– **Credit Card:** Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations.
– **EFT:** Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number.
– **Cash:** Accepted at our front counter Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM.
**Rates:**
– The minimum charge is $162 for the first 10 lines. Every line after the first 10 is $12.20. If the ad is under 10 lines, it will be charged the minimum rate of $162.
– On a second run date, the lines are $8.20 per line, starting with the first line. For example, if the first run date was 20 lines, the cost would be $164.
– Each photo published is $125 per day. For example, 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges totaling $500.
**Deadlines:**
Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested.
**Hours and Deadline (No Exceptions):**
– Ad Photos MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST
Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries. Please call or email us for more memoriam information.
Please call 651-228-5280 for more information.
**Hours:** Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Closed weekends and holidays)
Please submit your memoriam ad to [email protected] or call 651-228-5280.
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**By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer**
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are ticking higher on Thursday following an encouraging signal for the artificial-intelligence boom.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, though trading has been erratic this week, and stocks have repeatedly swung between gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 116 points, or 0.3%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% higher.
Technology stocks helped lead the way after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported a bigger jump in profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang also said TSMC expects “continued strong demand for our leading-edge process technologies” going into the end of the year.
That’s important for the U.S. stock market because TSMC is a critical player at the center of the AI frenzy, making chips for such companies as Nvidia. TSMC’s stock that trades in Taiwan climbed 1.4%, though its stock that trades in the United States edged down by 0.2%. Nvidia rose 1.3% and was the strongest single force lifting the S&P 500 because it’s Wall Street’s most valuable stock.
Such AI stocks have been at the center of Wall Street’s surging to record after record this year, even though inflation is still high and the job market is slowing. AI stocks have shot so high that critics worry about another possible bubble, like the one that enveloped dot-com stocks and eventually imploded in 2000.
Companies broadly are under pressure to deliver stronger profits after the S&P 500 surged 35% from a low in April. To justify those gains, which critics say made their stock prices too expensive, companies will need to show they are making much more in profit and will continue to do so.
Salesforce climbed 8% and was one of the biggest reasons for the Dow’s climb after the company, which helps businesses manage their customers, unveiled a plan to deliver more than 10% in compounded annual revenue growth in coming years.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services trucked 17.3% higher after the freight company breezed past Wall Street’s profit targets in the third quarter. They helped offset a 4% drop for Travelers, even though the insurer reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Its revenue fell short of forecasts.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise sank 8.8% after giving long-term financial targets that some analysts found underwhelming.
In stock markets abroad, indexes climbed across much of Asia and Europe. South Korea’s Kospi soared 2.5% on hopes that a trade deal may be coming between Seoul and Washington. Samsung Electronics and automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. were among the big gainers.
In China, where trade tensions have been rising with the United States, indexes added 0.1% in Shanghai and slipped 0.1% in Hong Kong.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.04% from 4.05% late Wednesday.
A report in the morning said manufacturing activity in the mid-Atlantic region is unexpectedly shrinking. It’s one of the few windows into the economy that the Federal Reserve has been getting recently as it tries to figure out whether high inflation or the weak job market should be the bigger concern for the economy.
The U.S. government’s latest shutdown is delaying important updates on the economy, such as a weekly update on unemployment claims that typically helps guide trading on Wall Street each Thursday. A day earlier, an important report on inflation was also delayed.
AP Writers Teresa Cerojano and Matt Ott contributed.
Originally Published: October 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM CDT.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/10/16/stock-market-tsmc-profits-boost/
