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...Two of the world’s biggest asset managers are quitting an investor group set up to prod companies over global warming and a third is scaling back its participation, in a major setback to the ambitions of...
...Last year, the same epithet was attributed to the seven stocks that produced most of the growth in global equity markets....
...“We’ve been on sleep mode for too long and now our membership is energised again,” said Melbye, who is also a senior executive at Uranium Energy Corp, a Texas-based company reopening mines in Wyoming and...
...The companies said on Tuesday they would form a joint venture to develop Stratos, a project under construction in west Texas that aims to extract carbon emissions from the atmosphere....
...Analysts surveyed by S&P Global expect the company, which has a market capitalisation of more than $8bn, to post net second-quarter net profit of $760mn on Tuesday, compared to $513mn a year before....
...The Asia-Pacific region, thanks to a rapidly growing Chinese market, had accounted for up to a fifth of big cruise lines’ global revenues before 2019....
...premium brand, which sells 2oz pots of face cream for $360....
...Venture Global, another exporter on the Gulf of Mexico coast, said it had struck a deal to sell 2mn tonnes per year to oil major Chevron over a 20-year period....
...Both BlackRock and State Street have faced questions from state governments in Texas and West Virginia, which plan to boycott financial services groups that “discriminate” against fossil fuels....
...Global PC sales slipped nearly 7 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to research firm Gartner, mainly on a drop in demand for lower-priced Chromebooks, which were in high demand during...
...Let’s try to replace 1 per cent of the global fleet of 2 billion cars and trucks per year and that’s our aspiration. It’s not a promise, it’s an aspiration....
...The move came as the company plans to build a $17bn chip plant in Taylor, Texas. The Korean campaign has coincided with efforts by rival regional chipmakers to increase their US lobbying presence....
...But our focus on production is going to be on the two new factories that we've recently completed in Berlin and in Austin, Texas. How hard is it as a problem to solve?...
...Tech tools — Nokia’s new tablet HMD Global, which owns Nokia phones, introduced a new Nokia tablet this week....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...But, as he points out, Europe is not in control of its own destiny here — its share of the global semiconductor market currently sits at around 10 per cent, down from a heady 44 per cent in 1990....
...The estimated cost of €100m- €500m would account for a big chunk of earnings, which RWE forecast in the range of €2.7bn-€3bn for 2020, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Now snow hits semisThe Arctic weather sweeping through Texas is threatening to exacerbate a global shortage in semiconductors, after several manufacturing plants near Austin were forced to shut down....
...While we’re at it, there’s another Spac deal that landed today — Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp, backed by Apollo Global Management, acquired electric carmaker Fisker in a $2.9bn deal....
...Texas-based Xenex Disinfection Services recently announced a successful test of its LightStrike robot against the virus....
...It is not an easy question.” — Keith Hennessee, San Antonio, Texas “I will leave it to others to offer a point-by-point defence of the [Rutgers] English department’s plans to respond to the BLM uprising...
...When a group of private equity firms struck a €17.2bn deal to buy Thyssenkrupp’s lifts business last month — even as global stocks whipsawed on fears about the coronavirus outbreak — it became one of the...
...The killings that claimed 31 lives last weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, just 12 hours apart brought renewed debate about the nation’s firearm laws and gunmakers....
...PS While on the topic of Japan, here’s a working link to the piece on brewer Asahi and its global dealmaking. Sorry about the mishap earlier this week!...
...Texas Roadhouse and Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin’ Brands, two other chains with notable pork exposure, tumbled 4.4 per cent and 9.4 per cent, respectively....
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