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...“Our conversation with the credit rating agencies is: ‘What more do you need?’ and they say: ‘We need time to see the consistency of [economic performance],” he said....
...And it called on the European Securities and Markets Authority to report on whether credit ratings properly reflect ESG risk....
...He joins from Credit Suisse. Brent Fassett has joined law firm Wilson Sonsini as a corporate partner in the firm’s Boulder office. Fasset comes from Cooley LLP....
...Himanshu Thakkar, co-ordinator of the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, said future projects need more planning, including assessing their environmental impact and economic viability....
...(Dickinson countered that Quebec has surplus power and currently allows water to spill over its dams.)...
...At the same time, the Bank was struggling with the transformation of the former communist countries of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union....
...Yale University raised tuition from $55,500 to $57,700 in the coming academic year but waived some lodging costs and offered credits for two summer session courses in compensation....
...But the dam may be about to break....
...The breach of the dam in January in the south-eastern municipality of Brumadinho was also the second major accident at a dam owned by Vale in less than four years....
...The opening credits show a battle map on which the advancing arrows of Swastika forces are prodded and repulsed by the plucky Union Jacks....
...We’ve reached Padre Bay now and are twisting through Labyrinth Canyon, a lunarscape of rounded ochre boulders, looking for a spit of sand to anchor up....
...Citigroup, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Sberbank and VTB Capital are co-ordinating the IPO....
...Credit analysts at European banks are not so sure....
...Techniques to abate global emissions, such as the trading of carbon credits, are seen as speculation favouring the haves against the have-nots....
...He pointed to Standard & Poor’s decision last year to downgrade Brazil’s credit rating to one notch above junk....
...Lula made the comments in a speech to a labour union rally “in support of Petrobras and of Brazil” – and, presumably, of Rousseff....
...Despite budgetary pressures, the scheme is proceeding apace and the dam is due to be completed this year....
...Yet in the past three months, this one-time implacable critic of both the Soviet Union and Russia has had a conversion on a par with Saul of Tarsus....
...The sale of DAM is the last major disposal planned by Dexia, which is being wound down following losses from the credit crunch and the eurozone debt crisis....
...Hydropower dams are by far is main source of renewable energy but cannot be expanded infinitely. Nuclear power is expensive. The country’s shale gas industry is in its infancy....
...But then the country remains by some margin the poorest member of the European Union....
...In the end — or post-scarcity environment — the dam may break, and prices could eventually fall to zero....
...The Labor MP Craig Thomson quit the party last month following allegations he had used a union credit card to pay for escorts while he was head of the Health Services Union, and Peter Slipper, speaker of...
...China’s Three Gorges, the operator of the hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze, won a hotly contested bidding process for a stake in EDP, Portugal’s dominant power company....
...Simply put, anything beyond the 300bn limit in bond purchases, would structurally raise the ECB’s liabilities to eurozone credit institutions above the normal amount of borrowing by these credit institutions...
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