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...Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, warned about the effects of large deals on competition and financial stability....
...Nearly 30 per cent of executives said that new rules on methane fees from the US Environmental Protection Agency will have a “significantly negative” impact on their operations, and almost a quarter of executives...
...I’ll use as an example Alaska, where there are two Republican senators — so, arguably, a very conservative electorate....
...The fury revealed not only the degree of public alarm over endemic graft and abuse of power — it was also a bitter reminder of the broken promises of earlier mining booms....
...Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve’s San Francisco branch, will participate in a “fireside chat” hosted by her bank in Anchorage, Alaska....
...The decision has stoked alarm among developers, who expect a majority of users to choose to block the use of IDFA....
...Most are at least partially state-owned, but others, including the Hungarian subsidiary of Robert Bosch LLC, are not....
...It is akin to the way Alaska and countries including Norway have created wealth funds into which a percentage of revenues from commodities are invested for the benefit of future generations....
...Sign up here with one click But what has caused most alarm is that, in this quayside city of the future, residents’ every move would be recorded....
...That contrasts with Amazon’s Echo Spot, a small speaker with both camera and screen that the company has positioned as a bedside alarm clock....
...It is not just media self-interest to raise the alarm about his method of making public pronouncements....
...When BCBG filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2017, GPIM lost hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and equity investments it had made in the years before the Chapter 11 filing....
...to suspend customary protections that would prevent the deal....
...Yet if losses do rise, taxpayers should have some protection....
...European competition law needed to be rewritten “to apportion a bigger role to consumer protection”, he added....
...highlighted the riskiness of a corner of the industry that helps fund the costs of earthquakes, hurricanes and other disasters.Several hedge funds have set up offshore reinsurers, which provide backup protection...
...For example, an insurer could refuse to pay an earthquake claim if a burglar alarm was found not to have been working as it should....
...The sheer volume of M&A activity is ringing alarm bells in Washington and Brussels....
...“All the sightings so far have been false alarms — except for one,” says Martin, professor of animal conservation at Dundee University....
...Mr MacFarlane is concerned some companies are using preferred stock to cover the risk of a “pushed” valuation, rather than providing genuine downside protection....
...We think the company being referred to is Residential Capital LLC. It was in a lot of credit indices and matches the above timing....
...The speed at which such trading takes place is causing alarm....
...When others were silent, John McCain had the judgment to sound the alarm about the mistakes we were making in Iraq....
...Alarms and gauges were broken and a key piece of equipment, the blowdown drum, was not only outdated but undersized....
...Yet many of the calls for protection from activist funds come from incumbent managements that have been sitting on their laurels and delivering poor returns on capital....
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