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...Texas, Florida, Missouri and other GOP-led states followed suit with anti-ESG initiatives and divestments....
...John Fetterman, the progressive Democratic senator for Pennsylvania, and the hawkish Republican Josh Hawley of Missouri also joined calls for the bill to be tabled soon....
...with a wealth management arm based in St Louis, Missouri....
...In October, Missouri state treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced that the state had pulled $500mn in state pension funds from BlackRock, and Louisiana yanked $794mn from BlackRock funds....
...In 2018, a Missouri jury ordered J&J to pay nearly $4.7bn in damages to a group of nearly two dozen women who claimed their cancer was caused by its talc....
...In response to the Missouri move, BlackRock said: “While the actions of some elected officials have attracted media headlines, they do not reflect the totality of our clients’ investment decisions.”...
...But when a Missouri court ordered J&J to pay more than $2bn to a group of nearly two dozen women who claimed their cancer was caused by its talc, the company adjusted its strategy....
...Xi Jinping’s crackdown, while Missouri Senator Josh Hawley wrote directly to Cook: “Under your leadership, Apple has time and again assisted the Chinese Communist party in surveilling and suppressing the...
...Missouri’s Ameren, another utility group, has been in a legal battle over the closure of its Rush Island coal plant....
...“We’re seeing this rotation in spending away from retail and we’re seeing a slowdown in spending as consumers are squeezed by high inflation and rising rates,” said Greg Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon...
...They spoke in response to a question by Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican congressman from Missouri, on whether they were prepared to pull their investments out of China in the event of a military assault...
...Kyle Sanders, an analyst at Edward Jones in Missouri, said “difficult markets highlight the resiliency of BlackRock’s business model”....
...It has already lost several big cases including a $4.7bn damages award by a Missouri court to 22 woman who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in the drugmaker’s baby powder....
...The appeal that was denied on Tuesday related to a case filed in Missouri in 2018 involving 22 women....
...Amanda Widmer reported cracked walls and sticking doors soon after she moved into a four-bedroom house in Wentzville, Missouri, according to correspondence seen by the FT....
...More than 1,000 crews drawn from as far as Missouri were working to repair the distribution grid, but the company warned some customers could still be without power as late as next Tuesday....
...Josh Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri who has been a critic of big technology companies, on Tuesday hailed the case against Google as the “most important antitrust case in a generation”....
...A mining company and a double-murder in Missouri Five years ago, two middle-aged South African bikers rolled up in Springfield, Missouri, and checked in to La Quinta Inn....
...This will be the first facility outside of Missouri to handle the company’s patented process of texturising plant proteins and is expected to be operational by the end of this year....
...A colleague who worked at CitiMortgage, the St Louis, Missouri-based mortgage bank that Ms Fraser was appointed to run in 2013, said she brought “a focus and an energy” to a battered division....
...Josh Hawley, a Republican Senator from Missouri who is a China hawk, has introduced legislation to ban the app from the phones of federal employees....
...Josh Hawley, a Republican senator from Missouri and frequent critic of TikTok, told the FT this week that a full divestment of the app would represent a “major step forward” but not go far enough to satisfy...
...But that limited assurance has already drawn criticism from some of the more hawkish members of Trump’s party, such as Josh Hawley, a US senator from Missouri....
...The state of Missouri was the first to pass a labelling law in 2018. It limits use of the term “meat” to livestock and poultry meat. Missouri has since been sued....
...“Apple assured me last week that their initial decision to ban this app was a mistake,” tweeted Josh Hawley, a US senator from Missouri. “Looks like the Chinese censors have had a word with them since....
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