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...The climate summit yielded a mixed bag of results that left some observers outside of the carbon markets torn between acknowledging the historic nature of the deal brokered by COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber...
...The near-term financial burden in the base case is what China et al are objecting to. Here’s what the Zambian finance ministry said it had been told after the deal collapsed....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Moreover, an analysis by rating agency S&P suggests UK banks have handed more of the benefits of interest rate rises to savers than their counterparts in Europe and the US....
...And I think you could think of this as a knock against US stocks, right? What about the Mag Seven? What about how concentrated the stock market gains are with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google et al?...
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...The head of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund — the world’s largest — said last week that governments needed to speed up the development of regulation, announcing it would set guidelines for how the companies...
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven (1960). Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al)....
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...To this day, many Americans will take their first steps on the road to appreciating art via the legacy of Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie et al....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Guyana was a champion of climate action until Exxon discovered oil. (NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...ambassador to the United Nations....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...Then there’s the industry ties to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the owner of the Godolphin stables....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The killing last week of one of al-Qaeda’s top commanders in Africa was celebrated by France as a significant victory in its war on terrorism in the Sahel....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...‘They’ (the Fed) are looking at ‘us’ (equities, the yield curve et al), and we the market, are looking at them, in a veritable echo chamber — as ‘we’ are both looking at the same data.”...
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