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...The shift comes after a two-year stretch during which US Republican politicians have relentlessly pounded big banks and investment managers for being “too woke” or “hostile” to fossil fuel....
...In 2005, Ogunlesi, then a top banker at Credit Suisse, was summoned to Omaha, Nebraska, by the energy arm of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to study a large takeover....
...The US central bank this week increased interest rates to a range of between 5 per cent and 5.25 per cent, the highest level since mid-2007 after the tenth consecutive increase....
...In fact, ranchers in the “Prairie Gateway” — Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma — lost money per head of cattle between 2019 and 2022, the bank says....
...Munger grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, a few hundred feet from where Buffett now lives. The two met in 1959, when Buffett was 28 and Munger 35....
...The decline followed news that Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire had sold more than 85 per cent of its stake in TSMC, liquidating a position it had taken just months earlier in a share purchase worth $4.1bn...
...More than 92,000 people packed an American football stadium to watch a women’s college volleyball match between the University of Nebraska and Omaha on Wednesday, breaking the world record for the largest...
...In Nebraska, the state’s bankers association has opposed legislation that would ban lenders from considering social, political or ideological interests when making certain investment decisions....
...The company also dumped its position in regional bank US Bancorp and more than halved its stake in Bank of New York Mellon....
...brought down the investment bank....
...We are at the end of a run of earnings from the world’s biggest banks and technology companies....
...To fund this expansion, it plans an IPO on Shanghai’s tech-focused Star board and is in consultation with at least two possible underwriters for the listing, including Chinese bank CICC, according to three...
...“There is a fake environmental argument being waged against the mining industry,” said Samir Tabar, chief strategist at Bit Digital, a mining company with operations in New York, Texas, Nebraska and Georgia...
...One bank had a policy of hiring no more than one woman for every four men....
...The board of directors at the Kansas City Fed have formed a committee to launch a nationwide search for George’s successor....
...He’s not fazed at all by what the DoJ has done to him,” Jim Banks, the Indiana Republican, told Fox News....
...tests from the central bank that probed the lenders’ ability to weather a severe recession. 4....
...“Drought, increased fertiliser, chemical and fuel costs and rising interest rates are the primary concerns in our area,” one south-west Nebraska agricultural banker told Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City...
...The writer is an FT contributing editor In October of 2020, the Kansas banking commission closed down a state bank in Almena, a railroad town just below the border with Nebraska....
...The tightest labour markets are in places such as Utah, Nebraska and Montana, where there are more than 3.3 job openings per unemployed person....
...The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, which hosts the Economic Policy Symposium, said in a statement on Thursday it “is proceeding with plans to host a modified, in-person programme”....
...The ETN is designed to be held for a few days, but the New Jersey-based subsidiary of the Swiss multinational investment bank had hundreds of accounts that held the product for more than a year....
...Bank of America....
...But his career dates to the 1960s, when as a Smith Barney broker covering Nebraska and Iowa, he helped an Omaha client named Warren Buffett build a position in American Express....
...Berkshire has cut holdings in several bank stocks, selling the remaining shares it held in JPMorgan Chase, PNC Financial Services and M&T Bank in the fourth quarter....
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