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...Paint is one of the most widely used industrial products with a complex supply chain, making it the ideal raw material to illustrate the depth of the crisis....
...That makes it among the largest, if not the largest public health risk in the world — even larger than smoking, according to the study....
...In Germany, companies such as Siemens, the industrial group, and SAP, the software company, have rolled out remote working at scale for staff....
...The Dax 30, established in 1988, is home to a diverse set of world leading companies including carmaker Volkswagen, chemicals company BASF, insurer Allianz, business software provider SAP and logistics group...
...Now, some might argue you could reduce the wear, tear and vandalism risk of extremely expensive fleet cars by forcing customers to transfer user-deposits into the schemes and surveil the hell out of them...
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Intraday Here is today’s economic calendar (London times): 08.00: Swiss FX reserves 08.00: Spain industrial production 08.15: Swiss CPI 08.30: UK house prices (from Halifax) 10.00: Eurozone retail sales...
...ULA last week signed an agreement with Blue Origin to expand production of the BE-4 engine that ULA hopes to use to power Vulcan when it first flies in 2019....
...(FT) It’s a big day for Eurozone manufacturing November’s industrial production figures from France, Germany and Spain have already shown that the recovery is faltering....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...Forcing young Americans to bear this risk makes no economic sense....
...production, retail sales and Q3 GDP Companies: Nike Inc....
...rose for a seventh day and oil advanced before a monthly U.S. jobs report and data this weekend on Chinese industrial production....
...Other industrial stocks edged higher....
...Shares of the insurer that was rescued during the financial crisis in 2008 were down 1.2 per cent to $29.45 in after-hours trading....
...According to the finance minister, insurers are reluctant to renew policies until they see a comprehensive plan from the government to reduce the risk of flooding....
...Rolls took on 4.8 per cent to 770½p after better than expected full-year figures from Tognum, its marine and industrial engine joint venture with Daimler....
...Industrial Commercial Bank of China gained 0.9 per cent to HK$4.68....
...Shares in Ford Motor rose despite news that the US car company was recalling 1.1m pick-up trucks because of a risk of the gas tank falling off and causing fires....
...Insurers pressure Brazil and Argentina on rules Foreign insurers are pressuring Brazil and Argentina to reverse new policies restricting companies from reinsuring risks overseas, the FT reports....
...Chart’s Inc, the property and casualty arm of US insurer AIG and one of the biggest foreign employers in Japan, with more than 10,000 staff, began to move some managers and staff to offices in Osaka, Okinawa...
...The complex is mixed as the downbeat industrial production news out of Asia and the firmer dollar discourages buyers of many industrial metals, but gold is advancing....
...Positive outlooks from Hewlett-Packard and Fedex failed to stop US stocks falling as investors shied away from risk before the end of a strong quarter....
...Luxury quotas French industrial champions, whether they make cars or luxury goods, are coming under increasing government pressure to guarantee a minimum level of production in France....
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