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...The jump in financing of tar sands, one of the world’s most carbon-intensive sources of oil, comes as the banks face growing pressure from investors to step up the battle against climate change....
...In the summer, one of Connelly’s co-workers, Darryl Richardson, got in touch with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union....
...“Nan’s Bowery loft had no windows, or else they were covered, and this made her parties long, hilarious, dangerous events,” the writer Darryl Pinckney remembered in 1996....
...There are no battle scenes: the fray is emotional....
...A battle is looming between ICE and CME as they both launch euro-denominated cocoa futures contracts....
...Fosun has raised its bid for Club Méditerranée, in France’s longest takeover battle....
Lex on the battle for control of Canary Wharf
Lex sizes up the competing bids for the French conglomerate
...Lex's Joseph Cotterill and Vincent Boland discuss what is behind this bid battle and who may prevail....
Francesco Garzarelli on whether the eurozone can avoid deflation
...The legal battle between hedge funds and Argentina is pivotal to the sovereign debt market....
...Eurozone politics have not gone away after all, with the latest battle over a Cyprus rescue....
...Roman Abramovich will take a 7.3 per cent stake in Norilsk Nickel that could resolve the long-running battle between its two major shareholders, Interros and Rusal....
Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal on implications for Argentina of debt case defeat
...Glencore's first half numbers were better than expected further strengthening its hand in the battle for control of Xstrata....
...Darryl Cooke, founding partner, Gunnercooke Darryl Cooke is one of the first top corporate lawyers to found a new-model law firm....
...Darryl Issa whose committee oversees postal matters, noted in May that closing what looks to be the least efficient post offices was a false economy....
Steve Grob on the role antitrust officials in NYSE Euronext takeover battle
...The battle to takeover NYSE Euronext has a crucial bearing on the future of London as a global financial centre....
...The FT's Nordic bureau chief, Andrew Ward, filmed his visit to the world's most northerly city to assess Norway's role in the battle for resources -- and political influence -- in the polar region....
...US regulators are understood to have been the stumbling block which forced Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) to pull out of the battle for control of NYSE Euronext....
Pilita Clark on how the long-running battle has been resolved
James Mackintosh on how the battle for competitive weakness is buoying the single currency
...More serious may be an assault on the reputation of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose assessments underpin the whole UN-sponsored battle against global warming....
...Produced by Darryl Thomson....
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