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...Eventually, a planned high-voltage, direct-current transmission line will stretch to Nevada, California and Arizona. Including $3bn for the power lines, it will all cost $8bn....
...Regulators also required pension funds to act. Last year the UK directed pension fund trustees to consider ESG factors or give a reason why they had not. Some investors were already on board....
...Pension plans invest in a broad array of asset classes, but with many stock markets at or near record highs, the prospect of gains are dimming across the board....
...Pensions look well funded with a surplus of £1.1bn as at 7 March (and a new agreement with trustees which appears to imply reducing cash top-ups over the mid-term)....
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
...The film followed a group of seasonal workers bussed by staffing agencies from Spain, Poland and other parts of Europe to deal with the Christmas rush at an Amazon parcel centre in Germany....
...The chain operates 289 stores in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada and had $1.42bn in net sales and $74m of net income last year....
...“The processes that enable pre-patina sheets of copper to be made have resulted in its revival,” he says. Copper is expensive and, in sheet form, it requires specialist craftsmen to install....
...At stake is the identity of the 44th president, with the choice between two US senators: Mr Obama from Illinois and Arizona’s Mr McCain....
...They circulate around the prefab sales centre examining floor plans of the prototype houses: “The Grange”, “The Silverdale” and “The Coniston”....
...Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco’s chief executive, and members of Tesco’s board are due to attend a party on Wednesday night at which they hope to meet with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California....
...Meanwhile, the return to the cabinet of Peter Mandelson – something of a mentor to the likes of Miliband, James Purnell (work and pensions secretary and one of Demon Eyes’ founders) and Andy Burnham (a former...
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