Hints and tips:
...Regulators in the US states of Utah and South Carolina are moving to force five insurers to cut their exposure to the Miami investment firm 777 Partners, according to an official memo seen by the Financial...
...In March 2021, an official at Warrington Borough Council in the north of England listened to a pitch to invest in a commercial building 75 miles away in Birmingham. Warrington invested £10mn....
...They added: “Presidential immunity for official capacity crimes would create an untenable dilemma for every member of the military chain of command ordered to execute an order, particularly if officers disagree...
...Barrowman has also previously denied being an “investor” in PPE Medpro....
...allies and officials within his administration to press for a pause in the military operation in Gaza....
...“There is no reason for the court to wait six weeks before holding the hearings,” Dan Pfeiffer, a former White House communications director under Obama, wrote in a blog post on Thursday....
...James Smith, Resolution Foundation research director, said: “Britain has fallen into recession and a far deeper living standards downturn.”...
...An agreement on raising IMF quotas was reached in 2010 and later enacted in 2016....
...Then there are the former officials in Trump’s orbit who have stakes worth a few million dollars, including Devin Nunes, a Trump ally and former congressman who left office in 2022 to lead TMTG....
...Too hot to work One of the main reasons that extreme heat poses an economic threat is because it makes it harder to work. High temperatures go hand in hand with low productivity....
...Kolachalam in Mumbai, Nic Fildes in Sydney, Song Jung-a in Seoul, Christine Murray in Mexico City Data visualisation by Alan Smith and Eri Sugiura...
...Dan Lomas, an intelligence and security analyst at the University of Nottingham, suggested the arrest on allegations of espionage was also significant and showed “the UK is potentially flexing its muscles...
...Federal Reserve: The US central bank publishes its Beige Book, an outlook on current economic conditions. Monetary policy: New York Fed president John Williams is scheduled to speak at an event....
...of the half-term school break opted not to dine out, according to managing director Dan Harrison....
...Francis, economics director at the Construction Products Association, an industry body....
...“We’re not gonna do anything,” one official said. “The whole corner-crossing stuff is so up-in-the-air in the state.”...
...Fed officials have emphasised that inflation also hits those communities the hardest, and that in order to revert to a healthy economy, they must get prices back under control....
...Our guide, Greg Smith, an almost movingly enthusiastic man in a raincoat and one of the unfashionable kinds of bucket hat, made the move to Coll from Wivenhoe, Essex, three years ago....
...One critical concern is that officials do not have the capacity to review all EU-derived law by the end of this year as envisaged in the bill....
...While cities have always played an outsized role in driving economic development, the data highlight the degree to which growth was concentrated in places such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou in China, Delhi and...
...Joe Biden’s push for peace The US president said he was “prepared to speak with” Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine if Russia’s leader shows an interest in bringing the nine-month conflict to an end...
...Data visualisation by Keith Fray and Alan Smith...
...Part of the challenge, she says, is that law enforcement officials sometimes lack the capacity to build cases against traffickers....
...However, Ruth Liao, an LNG specialist at ICIS, said even if restarts soon, it could take until May to complete repairs and get back to full capacity....
...Ishrak will remain on as an independent director....
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