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...“The companies’ management teams have an obligation to ask if the Biosecure Act gets approved what is their plan B?”...
...That compares to a yield of roughly 9.15 per cent on the average single B rated US corporate bond, ICE bond index data shows....
...The IEA now expects oil demand growth to tumble from a year-on-year rate of 2.8mn b/d in the third quarter of 2023 to 1.9mn b/d in this quarter....
...This is higher than the 1.1mn b/d forecast for demand growth, which is weighed down by a slowing economy and the end of the post-Covid rebound in consumption....
...cut by 211,000 b/d and 135,000 b/d respectively....
...Oil demand rose above 100mn b/d for the first time in 2019....
...Wood Mackenzie forecasts peak production of 1.5mn b/d of production by 2033 — more than that of many Opec countries....
...It expects demand to increase by 880,000 barrels a day in 2024, compared with a 2.3mn b/d increase in 2023. Additional reporting by Jamie Smyth in New York...
...But Kingfisher, the UK-listed owner of British home improvement store B&Q and European DIY stores Castorama and Brico Dépôt, said the 30-day limit proposed by the European Commission this month would lead...
...The unusually fast ramp-up could push production to 1.2mn b/d by 2027 — equivalent to about a third of Exxon’s current daily production....
...The maritime sector he said, is “only so resilient” and “would clearly like to be reassured there is a Plan B”....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...Ian Paisley Jr, an MP for the Democratic Unionist party, said this week’s accidental data leak was “such a national security issue” that Britain’s legislators should be brought back from their summer holidays...
...Along with a complete set of the author’s works, it hosts a quiz occasionally attended by actor and co-leaseholder Ian McKellen. Monday from 8pm....
...Professor Christian Terwiesch at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that the chatbot was able to pass the final exam for his school’s MBA, scoring between B- and B on the Operations Management...
...How does a filmmaker respond to the ongoing gold rush around true crime while, a) pursuing a socially responsible agenda, and b) working for Disney?...
...He reckons that more than 80 per cent of his goods are cheaper than the B&Q chain store. And if you only want a dozen screws, you don’t need to buy a whole box....
...However, Ian Millward, director of Candid Financial Advice, says he would still be tempted to defer an annuity purchase....
...Their holding company, B.UK, is under pressure from Lloyds Bank to settle decade-long borrowings....
...Tiffany & Young was first established as a stationery and fancy goods store at 249 Broadway in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B Young, innovators who would court the society of America’s Gilded Age...
...Ian Paisley Jr has said it could be an ice age until Stormont is back....
...Photographer’s assistants, Stuart Hendry and Ian Kirby. Digital operator, Stefano Poli. Stylist’s assistants, Aylin Bayhan, Tomasso Palamin, Cecilia Baistrocchi and Anne Cecile Lemée....
...The FTC is demanding that companies that settle deception cases keep records of psychological and behavioural research they conduct, including A/B testing. That should be expanded....
...So the sign for “a” was the head of a bull, “alef” in the Levantine language, “b” was a schematic house or “bet”, and so on....
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