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...The 91-metre Verity, a coastal trading vessel, collided with the larger freighter Polesie at 5am in the German Bight, the shallow south-eastern part of the North Sea, 12 nautical miles south-west of the...
...In the case of the McKinsey report published in 2020, the main study gathered data about diversity on the boards and in the C-suites of more than 1,000 large global companies....
...A coastal worker briefly moves into thought leadership after his unemployed girlfriend has an existential crisis....
...“This is a point of minimum — rather than maximum — confidence,” as Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute told the FT last week....
...S&P recently upgraded Miami bonds to AA on this basis, even though the city expects the sea level to rise by up to 21 inches (53cm) by 2070....
...Electricity generation capacity soared from 5.5GW in 2009 to 23GW currently, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a think-tank....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Manufacturing: S&P Global publishes its manufacturing purchasing managers’ indices for the EU, UK and US while the US Institute for Supply Management publishes...
...An agricultural engineer, Li worked for Xi in a secretarial role when the latter was governor of Li’s native Zhejiang, one of China’s rich eastern coastal provinces, in the mid-2000s....
...This summer, the Art Institute of Chicago presents Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks, the first-ever exhibition to focus on her cityscapes and how they inform the desert landscapes she painted when she moved...
...The S&P 500 is up 11.8 per cent since then through today’s close . . . It is back slightly above its 200-day moving average....
...At each end, Jenkins’ clamshell bonnet and even more extreme C-130-inspired cargo plane rear opens up to swallow luggage in its 627-litre boot....
...“One of them has to be the sense that hourly workers and others can’t be secure about their futures, while the C-suite is doing extremely well.”...
...An escalating carbon tax is already in place, priced at C$50 per tonne now and due to rise to C$170 by 2030....
...The S&P 500 index rose 9.1 per cent in July, its biggest monthly gain since November 2020....
...The Rockefeller Institute is testing ways to use its funds to backstop private investments into green finance in Africa. Other foundations may follow suit....
...During the 2009-2021 bull market, the S&P 500 rose 325 per cent (if you use year-end 2009 as the starting point). Earnings over the period grew 192 per cent....
...It has an archive of more than 35,000 pieces, which is larger than the Kyoto Costume Institute’s....
...A report by S&P Global Market Intelligence found that companies with female executives have higher profits and stock performances....
...In the US, the National Flood Insurance Program, which has provided subsidised insurance since 1968, has started to increase its rates for property in the riskiest coastal areas — to fierce criticism from...
...Share prices now reflect whether or not the C-suite is taking the risk from climate change seriously....
...He learnt to code languages such as Basic, Pascal and C, and tinkered with the innards of his grandfather’s Olivetti M24, whose green DOS-prompt glow he remembers fondly....
...Refinitiv this week published data on green bonds that reinforce the drop in issuance we highlighted in last week’s chart from the Institute of International Finance....
...Lex research shows former McKinseyites sit on boards or in C-suites of more than 70 S&P 500 companies, more than a quarter of the index’s market capitalisation of over $30tn....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...When women do reach the C-suite in Germany, it is sometimes to resolve problems left by male predecessors....
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