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...“The US is the world’s biggest consumer of stuff; China is the world’s biggest producer of goods,” said Robin Brooks, former chief economist at the Institute of International Finance....
...The social media company also outlined new areas of investment for the year ahead. 2....
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...In July the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed long-tailed macaques for the first time as “endangered”, in part due to skyrocketing demand for the species in medical research....
...a one-day strike, while National Education Union (NEU) members at schools in the north of England (followed by the rest of the nation and Wales in the following two days) and teachers in Scotland strike...
...The Financial Times is compiling the fourth edition of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies....
...Doronin, born in the Soviet Union but now a Swedish citizen, has spent $1.45bn restoring and converting the building into an 83-suite hotel and, above it, 22 residences, most of which have been sold....
...“America, and most of the world’s response to the invasion has clearly been an indictment of Vladimir Putin, and not of Russians in general,” he told the audience....
...the energy company Gazprom....
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...Serving younger people will be the new “north star” at Facebook, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed after the social media company predicted disappointing revenue growth this quarter....
...However, Esipov said he is nearly certain that refugees will continue to make their way west and “hundreds of thousands” will probably end up in North America....
...One event to start: join our FT colleagues at the Future of Asset Management North America this week, where leaders from the region’s leading asset and wealth managers will discuss how funds are adapting...
...In a move intended to promote the reshoring of vehicle manufacturing jobs, the pact raised to 75 per cent the proportion of automotive content that must be made in North America to qualify as duty-free....
...It’s probably a bit of both. But the data from North America, taken from the Cass Freight index, which is based on 33m invoices, suggest there isn’t much freight that isn’t in use right now....
...The project will also be an early test of President Joe Biden’s aim to create “good-paying, union jobs” while driving US carbon emissions down by half in this decade, as pledged at his international climate...
...In a series of meetings in recent weeks, she has met industry and business lobbyists, pharmaceutical companies, trade unions and advocacy groups to discuss whether waiving IP rights would be a good idea....
...But he warned the “renewal process is stalled” and international competitiveness is lost when companies wait for things to return to normal, especially “if they are supported in this strategy of waiting...
...international boycott of Congolese copper that effectively shut down the country’s exports....
...key step” that makes the “prospect of a banking union much more likely to happen”....
...from the FT’s Claire Jones)....
...“The end of the bull market in stocks is upon us,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank....
...Castleton Commodities International, a big trading house backed by hedge fund luminaries including Paul Tudor Jones and Glenn Dubin, bought 467.1bn cu ft of US gas and sold 543.5bn in 2017, another filing...
...Mr Trumka, the most powerful union boss in America, with 12.5m members across 55 unions, on Thursday warned the White House that any effort to force a vote on the USMCA would sink the deal....
...The majority of the company’s facilities are certified in accordance with the international environmental management standard ISO 14001....
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