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...Allstate, State Farm and AIG have stopped underwriting new homeowners’ policies in California because of the risk of destructive wildfires....
...A ‘dark day’ for the sustainable finance agenda We have been wondering for a while when the increasing hostility to ESG in the US could cross the pond into Europe....
...The only big holdouts are Texas, California and Florida. Should any one of these states give the green light, expect DraftKings and FanDuel to once again bet the farm....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 15 ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...On a wall is a framed rendering of the flagpole towering over a pond....
...From hurricane deluges on Florida resorts to parched farm towns in rural America, investors are scrambling to address the emerging physical threats their assets face from climate change....
...congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph Califano, attorney, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm...
...When the US ride-hailing group Lyft posted plans last week for an initial public offering that is expected to value it at up to $25bn, the first thing that came to my mind was Animal Farm....
...Today I can stand in the middle of Grand Street and imagine a farm, a pond; I can look up the block and think of a tall hill, try to picture the 18th-century soldiers drilling beside it, but I’ll never see...
...“He sent me a picture from a farm fair: he had his tie and his shirt . . . and Wellingtons,” says Mr Moores....
...The US government and humanitarian agencies used it to map the impact of deadly hurricanes in Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas last autumn....
...From the air they look like a long, dribbled line of green paint splashes that God might have dropped when he was building Florida....
...The founder of the Universa hedge fund in Florida grew up in Michigan, worked as a pit trader on the Chicago stock exchange and now makes himself and his investors significant amounts of money by trading...
...site range from cafés and kindergartens to medical devices and solar-powered dairy farms....
...It is intended to make electricity networks invest in more transmission, to connect up new sources of renewable energy including wind farms and solar fields....
...What does a caravan park in Cornwall have in common with hurricane insurance in Florida?...
...Round the Birdcage’s formal pond stand superb Swamp Cypresses, trees from Florida which have been planted long after the first plan’s conception....
...That Florida opening line uses a stock figure of speech, “hardball”, playfully developed with “a little speed on the pitches”....
...On the shores of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, west of Palm Beach, this means cut cane must be processed quickly at nearby mills....
...(H/T Richard Florida.) Mr Bloomberg took a business-like approach to the matter: high costs ultimately reflect the value of doing business and living in a city....
...Goldston, who grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, first worked with Johns in 1971....
...Area X is a zone of Florida blighted by an inexplicable catastrophe, becoming a locus of weird happenings. Haunting, surreal and bold....
...Related reading: Chinese group in insider trade settlement, FT Cnooc / Nexen – decision time looms, FT Chinese wind farm group to sue Obama, FT...
...At stake is about $2bn Mexican tomato exports, almost a quarter of all Mexico’s farm sales to the US. Mexico is not alone in its fight....
...“I’m looking out of Florida and I’m looking out of the country. I will go just about anywhere as long as it isn’t too cold,” she said....
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