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Dallas – October 01, 2026 -- Highland Global Allocation Fund (NYSE: HGLB) has declared monthly distributions of $0.085 per share for October, November and December 2026, under an annual distribution rate reset to 8.5% of the fund's average net asset value.

Fund locks annual rate to 8.5% of year-end NAV average

The 8.5% rate was calculated using the average NAV per share reported over the final five trading days of the 2025 calendar year, per the fund's Level Distribution Policy. NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., the SEC-registered adviser managing the closed-end fund, confirmed the Q3 2026 Distribution Amount was reset based on this calculation and may be adjusted again in future periods.

Rochester, N.Y. – October 01, 2026 -- Multifocal contact lenses ranked as the fourth most selected anti-aging product category among U.S. consumers aged 38 and older, tying with fitness memberships and aesthetic dental care and outranking cosmetic procedures, according to new CooperVision research.

Survey of 752 U.S. adults exposes a wide awareness gap in presbyopia care

The report, "Unmet Opportunities: Multifocal Contact Lenses and the Anti-Aging Movement (U.S.)," surveyed 752 American adults aged 38 and up, combining the findings with market data on healthy-aging attitudes. Despite ranking high among 10 anti-aging categories once consumers were introduced to the product, more than half of respondents reported little to no familiarity with multifocal contact lenses or did not recognize the term.

Kalispell, Mont. – October 01, 2026 -- Vero Broadband, LLC, operating as Vero Fiber, has completed its merger with Montana Sky Networks Incorporated, known as MontanaSky, combining two broadband providers active in Northwest Montana.

Merger unites a 30-year-old local provider with a national fiber network operator

MontanaSky, founded in 1993 and operating offices in Kalispell and Libby, Montana, has spent more than three decades serving the Flathead Valley region. Vero Fiber, a subsidiary of VFN Holdings, Inc., specializes in fiber-to-the-premises networks and has expanded through acquisitions and investment in rural and underserved U.S. markets.

Atlanta – October 01, 2026 -- RCX Sports, the official operator of NFL FLAG, and U.S. Bank have signed a new sponsorship covering 10 NFL FLAG Regional Tournaments running from fall 2026 through spring 2027.

Deal expands U.S. Bank's existing NFL sponsorship into grassroots flag football

The agreement builds on U.S. Bank's role as an Official Bank and Wealth Management sponsor of the NFL, extending the relationship down to the regional tournament level operated through RCX Sports. U.S. Bank separately committed $250,000 to national nonprofit GENYOUth, in collaboration with the NFL, to distribute NFL FLAG-In-School kits to 400 schools nationwide.

Chicago – October 01, 2026 -- Forty IT workers employed by TEK Systems at Rush University Medical Center will hold a press conference on Friday to press their employer to resume contract negotiations, two years after voting to unionize with Teamsters Local 743.

Union members demand bargaining after two-year wait for first contract

The workers, who provide round-the-clock IT support for networks and systems critical to patient care at Rush University Medical Center, joined Local 743 two years ago but have yet to secure an initial collective bargaining agreement. TEK Systems, the staffing contractor that employs the workers, is being called on to negotiate in good faith.

Workers seek wage guarantees and formal union protections

The Teamsters are demanding a contract covering fair wages, workplace respect, and established union protections. The press conference is scheduled for 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2.

Chicago – October 01, 2026 -- Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has closed a $32,453,000 Series 2026 financing for Lourdes Senior Community, a single-site not-for-profit senior living provider in Waterford, Michigan.

Bond structure splits refunding and new construction debt

The financing comprises $14,453,000 in Series 2026A Refunding Revenue Bonds and $18,000,000 in Series 2026B Bank Draw Down Bonds. Proceeds will refinance Lourdes' outstanding Series 2019 Bonds and fund construction of a new 60-unit independent living building.

WesBanco takes direct placement with full interest-rate swap

The Series 2026 Bonds were structured as a tax-exempt direct placement with WesBanco, including a 100% swap. The deal carries a 10-year bank credit commitment period through September 1, 2026, with final maturity set for September 1, 2046. Ziegler served as both placement agent and swap advisor on the transaction.

New York – October 01, 2026 -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and America Makes have launched a searchable online database of additive manufacturing (AM) standards alongside a September 2026 Gaps Progress Report, giving manufacturers and regulators a clearer map of which safety and performance standards exist, which are in development, and where coverage is still missing.

Both tools originate from the Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collaborative (AMSC), a cross-sector body jointly led by ANSI and America Makes, as AM adoption expands into aerospace, medical devices, automotive, and defense applications where parts from different machines and manufacturers must perform consistently.

Redwood City, Calif. – October 01, 2026 -- Spacelift, an infrastructure orchestration company, has been named a finalist in SiliconANGLE's 2026 TechForward Awards in the AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure category.

Spacelift applies policy-as-code controls to AI-assisted infrastructure changes

The company extends the same governance used in traditional infrastructure-as-code pipelines to AI-driven provisioning, including policy-as-code enforcement through Open Policy Agent, role-based access control, approval gates, drift detection, and a complete audit history of system changes and operators. The platform covers Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible and Kubernetes.

Metro Chicago – October 01, 2026 -- Calamos Investments has declared monthly distributions paid in October 2026 across seven of its closed-end funds, accompanied by mandatory source-of-distribution disclosures required under Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Seven closed-end funds confirm October payouts under distribution plans

The affected funds trade on Nasdaq under tickers CHI, CHY, CSQ, CGO, CHW, CCD and CPZ. Calamos Global Total Return Fund, Calamos Global Dynamic Income Fund, Calamos Dynamic Convertible and Income Fund, Calamos Convertible Opportunities and Income Fund, and Calamos Convertible and High Income Fund are reporting estimated distribution sources based on year-to-date cumulative experience, with the firm attributing these estimates equally across each regular distribution for the year.

Englewood, Colo. – October 01, 2026 -- WideOpenWest, Inc. (WOW!) has been named Cablefax's 2026 Top Ops Market Mover, recognizing a year in which the broadband provider expanded fiber passings by more than 50% across its expansion markets and over 20% across legacy markets.

WOW! extends network to nearly 50,000 additional homes and businesses

The company's network growth over the past year reached new premises across Central Florida, South Carolina and Michigan, adding fiber capacity to its footprint that already passes nearly two million residential, business and wholesale customers across 20 markets.