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...The risks have risen as international trade in goods has increased and ships have grown larger....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...In addition to higher financing costs, he is also grappling with Florida’s broken property insurance market....
...If you fancied a weekend away, you could go glamping on the company farm. If this were Amazon or WeWork, it would be creepy....
...Even so, like his counterparts in UK farms and factories, Patel is running into problems at the EU border....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...The company is working well to mitigate any impact from the global COVID-19 pandemic, with good financial liquidity and order book cover....
...The Trump administration’s granting of state funding for (costly) COVID-19 testing for patients with no health insurance and Congress’s approval of a $8bn package to fight the spread of the virus bear out...
...“I owned a small farm in Lebanon, now I own a small farm in California!” he smiles broadly. His nephew shows me how to tap a watermelon like a stud wall to check its quality....
...Even good policy can only do so much to counteract this, and good policy is in short supply....
...(FT) Chinese tankers defy Iran sanctions Maritime data provided to the FT suggests that tankers linked to China’s biggest state-run oil company are transporting Iranian crude oil in defiance of US sanctions...
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...Here’s Jefferies: Given the current state of capital markets, in our view this is hardly the ideal time to begin an IPO process, especially for a company that provides 5% investment guarantees to customers...
...Activists have been urging the insurance sector to steer clear of the Carmichael project in the northern state of Queensland since late last year....
...It sells insurance, legal services and electricals. Annual turnover is about £9.5bn. The group once owned a retail bank, now controlled by bondholders, a pharmacy chain, and several farms....
...According to ESP, which compiles sponsorship data, big US insurance brands such as Geico, Allstate and State Farm devote more than half of their annual sponsorship budgets to sports....
...But then Bogle made a fateful mistake, merging Wellington with an aggressive young mutual fund company in Boston....
...Petrovskiy pauses for a while before answering: “Us addicts talk a good game but from what he said in meetings, I thought he had a good chance of staying clean. He did also say he was scared....
...“At the moment, insurance companies and pension funds cannot invest in real estate in China,” he says. “Those restrictions are starting to lift.”...
...They included Aerobotics, which is applying AI to aerial photos of farms to help provide crop insurance, and Emerge, which uses machine learning to help insurers improve efficiency. ——————— Four areas...
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...The fallout even affected companies with little business in the US, such as Dong Energy, the Danish group that is the world’s leading operator of offshore wind farms, mostly in the North Sea....
...“It’s not saying this is working towards a wind farm in New England . . . this is trying to make sure that hard things get easier to solve.”...
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
...If driverless cars end up being shabby advertising-ridden common goods, perhaps chauffeur services simply become a highly sought-after status good?...
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