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...Illinois is set to become the first US state to tap the Federal Reserve for emergency funding, planning to borrow $1.2bn from the US central bank to plug a financing gap created by the pandemic....
...The rule could damage the economics of new projects such as offshore wind farms, as they could no longer lean on state help to underbid older, dirtier resources like coal power stations....
...The Midwestern states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio were among the 16 nationally that reported their biggest daily jumps in cases of the pandemic on Friday....
...Mr Carmichael said the deal could lead to the closure of “40 to 50” branches. MB currently has 91 branches, mostly in Cook and DuPage counties, the two most populous in Illinois....
...It also ranks alongside Iowa and Illinois as a major producer of soyabeans....
...Is it all the fault of Bush v Gore? Remember “hanging chads”? After the debacle of the 2000 election, many states invested in new computerised voting machines....
...The most average places tended to be in the Midwest....
...In terms of the Federal Reserve, I actually do worry a little bit....
...But it comes only after repeated downgrades that have left Illinois with the lowest credit rating of any US state....
...“There is a veil of stability right now,” said Aaron Kushner, chief executive of Freedom Communications and publisher of the Orange County Register in California, who has expressed potential interest in...
...Also in the Hoosier state, Vigo County (see 19.04), has tallied all its votes....
...In the equity market, there were big declines for stocks that had been tipped to benefit from a Romney victory, including oil and gas and coal stocks and big banks, all of which could have expected a rollback...
...Patriot’s move, made after the close of New York trading, follows sharp falls in coal demand following the ramping up of production from abundant US shale gas reserves....
...A brief love affair with commodities is over at the $36bn Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System, one of the biggest public pension funds in America....
...However, more than half of those reserves are held by just two states – oil-rich Texas and Alaska – while California and Illinois have run big deficits....
...Trading volumes are persistently low in many markets, and Federal Reserve figures show banks’ inventory of bonds falling to new lows in January....
...It helps if there is a large population centre nearby – East Chicago virtually merges with Gary at the Illinois state border line....
...Jefferson County, Alabama, last week filed the largest municipal bankruptcy of its kind....
...So there are such charming but disgraceful confections as the 34th state senate district of New York (“the dangling lobster tail”) and the 17th congressional district of Illinois (“the rabbit on a skateboard...
...trading firms, which specialised in futures, are looking to extend into options and equities, where they can use their expertise in asymmetric trading, where dealers respond to news events such as Federal Reserve...
...Harry Bormann, grain team leader at MaxYield Cooperative in Iowa, said stalks in the state’s largest corn-growing county are now chest high....
...,” says Darrel Good, agricultural economist at the University of Illinois....
...EME subsidiary Midwest Generation has six plants in Illinois and most of their output is sold into PJM, according to Edison’s web site....
...Absolute borrowing costs for regional governments remain relatively low in historical terms because of the Federal Reserve’s ultra-loose monetary policy....
...A judge in Regina v....
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