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...Kirstine Lund Christiansen, head of ESG at the Danish pension fund P+ and a client of Federated Hermes, said it was “very positive” that the asset manager had decided not to renew its sponsorship of the...
...Some would probably argue that more information is not the same as better information . . . but c’mon....
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...Looks like S&P Ratings doesn’t find “attestations” especially convincing, either....
...S&P gave the new UBS AT1 a BB rating, five notches below its A- credit rating on the bank....
...law professor, who served as general counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws, during the Obama administration....
...The Hinkley Point C project is likely to exceed the revised £32.7bn estimate EDF put on it earlier this year after its Chinese partner CGN halted payments to cover mounting cost overruns....
...How many of the S&P 500 companies have a female CEO? Answers to the nearest 10? To nearest 10. At which law firm did Dominic Raab begin his legal career?...
...The investment was funded through the sale of a logistics company he had founded in his twenties after returning from a stint with P&O Ferrymasters in London....
...The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity and BlackRock control more than 20 per cent of the votes of S&P 500 companies....
...In Lithuania, the levy on net interest income, signed into law in May, aims to raise more than €400mn for defence, military and transport spending....
...Subject to the laws of seas and harbours, her recent troubles began when she was inspected by A&P in Falmouth....
...And on Thursday, I am joining the law firm Ropes & Gray for a webinar about the ESG backlash and what investment funds can do about it....
...The bill will now be sent to the Senate, which will need to approve the measure in order for it to be signed into law by President Joe Biden and go into effect ahead of a June 5 deadline....
...Brands stopped operations in Russia Eight days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Hermès announced its decision to temporarily close stores in Russia and pause all commercial activities...
...“There is an issue that competition law doesn’t distinguish between what’s done for the public good and what’s not,” Topping said, urging governments to overhaul these laws, and to impose new regulations...
...The S&P 500 is up 11.8 per cent since then through today’s close . . . It is back slightly above its 200-day moving average....
...The S&P 500 ended the day down one and a half per cent and the yield on the policy sensitive two-year Treasury hit its highest level in 16 years. The FT’s Colby Smith has more....
...Carney said that the change reflected concerns about competition law....
...Kaczorowska uses Japanese brand P.Shine’s dinky kit, which, despite its artificial-looking 1950s-esque pastel pots, actually holds an all-natural formula....
...The breakthrough came thanks to public information: an announcement from the Whitechapel that V-A-C would be funding a series of projects....
...“One of them has to be the sense that hourly workers and others can’t be secure about their futures, while the C-suite is doing extremely well.”...
...SO’C: There are some sectors, and you’ve studied some of them, like law and consultancy, which haven’t made any of those changes yet....
...Market participants are reading sanctions law and eastern Europe experts, not economists. (Or, as one strategist told me, economists’ digests of sanctions law and eastern Europe experts.)...
...It comes at a price though: a lamp he designed for Hermès “costs the same as a small car”, he says....
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