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...These days he is focused on the Hall Art Foundation, which he runs with Christine, his wife of 40 years. It has exhibition space in a castle in Germany and at a site in Vermont....
...Perhaps most striking were his warm words for Bernie Sanders, the Democratic senator from Vermont known for railing against the power of corporate “millionaires and billionaires”....
...His infatuation with markets was rekindled in 1993, just before his final year at the University of Vermont, when Mr Rubenstein made a trip to the NYSE floor to visit a friend’s father, a trader for Salomon...
...Several closures of nuclear plants for largely economic reasons have been announced in the past few years, including Kewaunee in Wisconsin, Fort Calhoun in Nebraska and Vermont Yankee in Vermont....
...Two US senators have introduced a compromise bipartisan bill for the federal labelling of genetically modified foods, just weeks before the introduction of a state law in Vermont that Big Food claimed would...
...Their intervention comes four months after Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator also running to be the Democratic presidential nominee, and Elijah Cummings, a Democrat in Congress, wrote to Valeant asking...
...In contrast to traditional foundations, LLCs are able to engage in public policy advocacy and for-profit investments that can also advance their favoured causes....
...First Wind develops and operates wind farms in the US, including in the states of Maine, New York, Hawaii and Vermont....
...Moore Capital began life in 1987 as Remington Trading Partners, founded by Mr Bacon, a graduate in literature from Middlebury College in Vermont, after a half-decade stint trading futures on Wall Street....
...Now based in Vermont, he and his wife Charlie are now sponsoring a student at Ashesi University in Ghana, which has been “a wonderful experience”, he says....
...After all, the genesis of many hedge fund strategies was the reorganisation of US railways in the 1930s. Then there was the “Burlington Arbitrage” of 1988....
...Berkshire now has a deal to secure a stream of business from Swiss Re and just this month bought a block of US life assurance from the company, having provided it last year with SFr3bn ($2.9bn) of debt funding...
...Letters contaminated with anthrax spores were mailed anonymously to several media organisations and the Senate offices of Tom Daschle, then Senate majority leader, and Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat....
...The Democratic National Committee, headed by Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, has raised $82m this election cycle, compared with $168m raised by the Republican National Committee....
...Four years ago Howard Dean, the governor of Vermont, made a splash by signing up 160,000 internet supporters more than six months before the primaries....
...Retail investors took profits in Centurion Energy, down 7.2 per cent to 417½p in light trading....
...The company said that it had pumped 97 per cent of its net income in the year to date back into developing its refining business, excluding its acquisition of Burlington in the first quarter....
...ConocoPhillips, the US oil and gas group, sold $3bn of bonds on Thursday, replacing part of the bridge finance raised for its $36bn purchase of Burlington Resources, which closed last week....
...And from about 2008, a wave of liquefied natural gas will hit the US, as import facilities come on stream. That should hurt pricing, although Conoco could hedge some of its exposure....
...The acquisition of Burlington Resources pitches ConocoPhillips within striking distance of Chevron - the number two US oil company....
...John S Herold, a consultancy, reckons US net income per barrel of oil equivalent of production has increased from around $8 to $11 between 2000 and 2004....
...assets when the sustainability of high prices was in doubt....
...In the latest case of shareholder revolt, Career Education, one of US’s largest operators of for-profit colleges, skidded 4.5 per cent to $33.09 after a major shareholder called for the resignation of the...
...Burlington gets about 84 per cent of its production and 89 per cent of its reserves from North America, with most of that located in the Rocky Mountain region and Canada....
...“We believe the market will struggle with the strategic logic of such a tie-up from both the perspective of timing, given current record natural gas prices, and portfolio overlap, which at first glance we...
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