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...A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G....
...Until now, the traditional set-up has been the placing of chips side by side on a flat surface which are then connected with wiring and fuses....
...Cover crops and increased organic matter create deeper, more extensive root systems. These help water drain when there is too much and allow it to be stored when there is too little....
...Rathbones holds two US companies that should benefit from the rising demand for more sustainable buildings: Owens Corning, which provides building insulation; and Advanced Drainage Systems which is focused...
...The businesses manufacture wiring harnesses, cables and connectors; engineer layouts for that electrical architecture; design systems for automatic braking and to prevent lane drifting; and also develop...
...Global equity funds (World large-blend in Morningstar’s category system) had their best year since 2015, and US stockpickers (US large blend) their best in a decade....
...The best-performing battery metal exchange-traded fund available to UK investors this week was the L&G Battery Value-Chain ETF, a mix of miners and battery manufacturers that had annualised returns in the...
...Also: Magic sales nearly doubled over the course of the pandemic and secondary market prices skyrocketed (e.g., Reserved List cards more than tripled)....
...around half of the portfolio thanks to some chunky position sizes — such as an almost 10 per cent allocation to Enphase Energy, weightings of more than 6 per cent in SolarEdge Technologies and Vestas Wind Systems...
...“For Apple to give that system up is tricky,” says Goldberg....
...Weak points include suspension top mounts and springs, the air conditioning system, anti-lock brakes, worn wiring looms, and oil supply tubes can blow a camshaft....
...Real estate services group CBRE has appointed Blake Hutcheson, chief executive of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, to its board....
...According to a blog post laying out L&G’s voting intentions in the coming AGM season, the £1.3tn investment arm of the UK insurance group plans to vote against management on a whole range of issues....
...That may have led to weak governance standards, hurting Japanese companies’ performance on the ‘G’ element of ESG....
...In November 2020, MSCI downgraded P&G’s ESG rating to A from AA. Peltz started on the company’s board in 2018....
...The G force feels tremendous. It’s too much raw power for me. I immediately feel nauseous, like I might pass out....
...Putin’s payment system In the absence of Visa and Mastercard, the Kremlin has seized on the opportunity to bolster its own domestic payments system....
...It’s the sort of message that has become de rigueur since governance put the G in ESG....
...I think this too (at least the “E” and “S” parts; there may be hope for “G”), but it means a lot more coming from him, and he does not hold back....
...And its technology platform Aladdin provides essential wiring for swaths of the global investment industry....
...They added: “Brigade’s actions are not just unconscionable; they threaten the integrity of the administrative agency function and the trust in the global banking system.”...
...The code would create an arbitration system that could make binding decisions on the fees Google and Facebook must pay news providers for content carried on their platform if commercial negotiations fail...
...Google outages are rare and costly for the Alphabet-owned internet group, with YouTube and Workspace — formerly known as G Suite, which includes Gmail — exceeding 2bn active users....
...P&G has come under fierce criticism from some investors over its role in deforestation to make products such as toilet paper, even as it has pledged to fund tree restoration projects....
...So we have to look into the cyber-security systems [to see] if the company is prepared.” (Billy Nauman) New global trade deal targets climate improvements Uh oh....
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