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...Global demand for plastics, which makes up 50 per cent of petrochemical demand, is expected to nearly double by mid-century, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...One of the AFR100’s core principles was that native grasslands should not be converted into forests, said the World Resources Institute, which is a technical partner of the project....
...Felipe Perez, Americas director at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said that, while there might be “some politics” at play, price was the crucial factor driving the diesel imports....
...Roman Kramarchuk, head of future energy analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said policy changes linked to COP28 were “inherently a long-term story”....
...TV journalist Scott Bryan is our host who has a good laugh at I Wanna Marry “Harry”’s myriad WTF moments — we listen in on him and his producer as they watch the series, which sounds tedious but is a hoot...
...The recent passage of a constitutional amendment to simplify the country’s complex tax system was broadly welcomed as a step in the right direction, with S&P upgrading Brazil’s sovereign rating one notch...
...Joanna S Kao That was the FT’s Kenza Bryan. Thanks, Kenza. Kenza Bryan Thanks....
...Kenza Bryan is a climate reporter for the Financial Times in London Follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life and Art wherever you listen...
...ESG ratings look and sound like the familiar credit ratings produced by S&P, Fitch or Moody’s....
...Family Meal by Bryan Washington Atlantic Books £17.99/Riverhead $28, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Eighty-six per cent of S&P 500 companies already report through CDP, and 94 per cent of the UK’s FTSE 100....
.... — Kenza Bryan The lure of plastic offsetting A tonne of plastic bags protecting Australian bananas from insects as they ripen. A tonne of fishnets strewn across Thai beaches....
...As HL Mencken, Upton Sinclair or William Jennings Bryan was said to have roughly quipped, it is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on their obliviousness....
...Australia’s Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export terminal, whose credit rating was downgraded to junk status by S&P last week, has much of its outstanding debt tied up in sustainability-linked...
...The other big problem is that the cost of hydrogen fuel has almost doubled from about $16 per kilogramme in July 2022, according to S&P data....
...Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research, North America at Morningstar expressed similar concerns....
...The S&P 500 has hit multiple record highs over the past month, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite was within touching distance of its own record this week....
...Instead, 2023’s kingpin was Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time, which sold the equivalent of 5.4mn albums, making it the biggest album in eight years....
...ing] uncapped exposure to the S&P 500, while buffering against the possibility of significant losses”....
...“Historically converts had sometimes been seen as one of those spivvier products that investment-grade names stayed away from,” said Bryan Goldstein, who advises companies on convertible deals at Matthews...
...By this measure, model portfolio assets rose 48 per cent from $286bn to $424bn in the two years to June 2023, a period during which the S&P 500 was broadly flat....
...In an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo as the trial began on Thursday, the former president said he wanted to stay “100 per cent active in politics” and that any verdict of ineligibility would be...
...Two weeks after losing its most prominent brand ambassador, the weight-loss group lost another fifth of its value on reports its lenders were preparing for debt talks after S&P cut its credit rating to a...
...“I suspect the money following the S&P 500, if that is what they go into, is much larger,” he added. “The S&P 500 is just a bigger pot. The FTSE is a dot compared to the S&P market cap.”...
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