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...I’m not sure we’ll be coming back to Cowboy Carter....
...US Democrats are putting together a “Plan B” to keep funding for Ukraine after Senate Republicans, encouraged by former president Donald Trump, voted down a bipartisan $118bn deal that had tied support for...
...His party, Bush suggests, will now switch to Plan B: attacking the Labour opposition’s spending plans. This is the last Disrupted Times until the new year....
...Namely, does his administration need an economic plan B? Property and trade are two indicators that have been flashing red....
...Had Vice-president Humphrey shown some mettle and opposed President Lyndon B Johnson’s bombing of North Vietnam, he might well have won the general election....
...About 300 Wilko stores and distribution centres are expected to shut in the coming weeks although administrators have sold 51 sites to discounter B&M....
...Energy Source sat down with Exxon’s chief executive Darren Woods, who discussed how oil demand is at record levels despite a tepid world economy....
...Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”. Nye argues Biden was too old in 2020 and is making “a mistake” by running for re-election....
...Exxon forecasts oil production of 3.8mn oil-equivalent barrels a day in 2024, compared with 3.7mn b/d this year....
...ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has long contended that oil and gas will remain central to the world’s energy mix despite efforts to drive down emissions created by burning them....
...Former national security adviser Stephen J Hadley and former deputy secretary of state James B Steinberg will arrive in Taipei on January 14,” said the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s quasi-embassy...
...At new wells in the Permian, average oil production per drilling rig has increased to 1,319 b/d. A decade ago the figure was about 183 b/d....
...The 21st-century works here were three short morsels by Elliott Carter, all written when he was more than 90 years old....
...But the golden thread that links everything it is planning to do is that a) it costs nothing and b) it sounds more impressive than it is....
...Russia said it would extend its existing 500,000 b/d cut until the end of the year....
...It is also the first of any significant size under Darren Woods, who has led Exxon since 2017....
...“B Corp” status is the widely recognised gold standard of social and environmental performance, but the movement is starting to attract controversy, as our Big Read explains....
...Newcomer Giorgio Bulgari, whose worldwide debut of Giorgio B took place at the same event, must have felt a similar thrill....
...The Permian produces about 5.8mn barrels of oil a day, out of about 13mn b/d in total US oil production....
...“Susan is a master networker, organiser and connector – this is her superpower,” says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation....
...Darren Pollock, a portfolio manager at Cheviot, said that while an “optimistic stock market is at least in part behind Berkshire’s rise”, the gains in Apple, its successful investments in energy and Japanese...
...American classic Our Life of a Song series celebrates “Johnny B....
...Next, JD Sports and B&M have all upgraded profit forecasts after a successful Christmas, while M&S reported its largest share of the clothing market in eight years as well as improved sales in its food division...
...UK retailers Next and B&M reported strong December sales, overcoming fears that hard-pressed Britons might shop less this Christmas. Both companies uprated their forecasts....
...CSL’s $3.5mn single-dose treatment for haemophilia B, Hemgenix, has sparked debate over how to pay for revolutionary drugs....
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