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...A lot of the Disney shareholders felt that if had been Iger, Disney wouldn't have been caught up in this negative media storm....
...Shantaram, the much-awaited adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’s bestselling 1980s-set novel-cum-travelogue, finally arrives on Apple TV Plus after a fraught few years of development hell....
...What we had was really the perfect storm for the destruction of rural America, this new advancement within the Democrat party of the neoliberal. It was this political argument of, are you backwards?...
...Hong Kong is a city that is caught up in this massive geopolitical storm. There's no way to maintain Hong Kong's reputation as the international financial centre....
...EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco says the US has already reached peak inflation, but the big factor for consumers will be the pace at which price growth cools, and what level it eventually reaches...
...I’ll take Kurosawa’s Ran (1985) — resplendent, kinetic, irresistible — closely followed by Gregory Kozintsev’s moody 1971 Russian version....
...Renewable energy investors are reassessing their plans in Texas after last month’s winter storm froze some wind power projects and left their complex financing arrangements in a shambles....
...The Texas Senate this week rushed through a bill that would order the Public Utility Commission of Texas to roll back maximum prices for part of the storm....
...In Monday’s bankruptcy filing, Karnei said “catastrophic failures” related to the winter storm were to blame....
...Legislators have sharpened their focus since a winter storm caused blackouts in Texas and Midwestern states in February....
...Even so, Vistra estimated it produced about 25-30 per cent of the power generated in Texas during the storm....
...Bank of America gained hundreds of millions of dollars in trading revenue when the Texas electric grid failed in a winter storm last month, highlighting the upside for Wall Street from mayhem that knocked...
...Vistra was prepared for winter and spent an extra $10m to ready its plants as the storm approached, Morgan said....
...It has funded the collateral call with new borrowing, and will book losses of $560m-$710m as a result of the storm, when three of its gas generating plants went offline....
...“The unprecedented ice storm and extreme cold temperatures in Texas and many other parts of the country caused outages across all forms of power — natural gas, coal, oil, nuclear and renewables, although...
...“This is kind of like a perfect storm: You have record demand, and you’re losing gas production. It starts creating a competition for gas. There’s not enough gas to go around for everyone,” he said....
...It declined to comment on its pricing policies during the winter storms....
...As the storm approached, Griddy told its customers to switch to more typical fixed-rate plans from other providers, but not everyone did, since there was little indication of just how extreme prices would...
...Catastrophe insurance for solar projects had long limited payouts for earthquakes and hurricanes, but hail, wildfire and convective storm damage are now also losing complete coverage, said Erin Lynch, president...
...The hurricane could deliver “life-threatening” storm surges as high as 11ft, the centre said....
...Gregory Meyer and David Sheppard (“Texas faces test of freewheeling power model after freeze leads to blackouts”, Report, February 16) omits one key piece of information....
...“This country is bayou, it’s low-lying anyway, and the storm surge is going to be catastrophic,” said John Carroll, a meteorologist....
...But delays to projects on top of the brewing political storm are already giving some companies in France the jitters....
...So it's, unfortunately, a perfect storm where the risk of abusive pricing or unfair pricing is quite high. I think pharma did hold a lot of power in this negotiation....
...Stronger Atlantic storms are associated with global warming, according to the US government’s national climate assessment....
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