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...K-SURE, the South Korean government export credit agency, has withdrawn insurance needed to underwrite SK E&S’s investment in the Timor Sea project....
...The US had long since abandoned any fond notions of building a thriving liberal democracy in Afghanistan. America’s sole purpose was to prevent the return of the Taliban. It was working....
..., and reposition itself away from New York regulated multifamily buildings....
...Money managers who have spent generations building businesses based on mutual funds contend they will survive and even thrive because investors like and understand the product....
...The Korean company has other lucrative business units, such as its LINE messaging and services app, and it runs popular entertainment platforms for webtoons and K-pop fandom....
...I speculate that Robinson is good at utopia-building in part because he is lucky enough to live in his own miniature idealised world, an ecological community on the outskirts of Davis, California....
...South Korea has responded to the US subsidies with a semiconductor package of its own, the so-called “K-Chips Act”....
...“The Battle Hymn of First Republic”* This brings us to First Republic, which has been downgraded to junk by Fitch, Moody’s and S&P Ratings, with S&P downgrading the bank again on Sunday....
...“K-S-I! K-S-I! K-S-I!” they chanted. At 10.30pm, after several other YouTubers-cum-boxers had taken their turns in the ring, KSI appeared. He wore a pink outfit and sang the national anthem....
...K-Sure said it would “only support projects that meet international environmental standards”....
...K-Electric was Abraaj’s single largest investment....
...Hedge funds overall have shed 5.6 per cent, far less than the S&P 500’s 20 per cent drop, bolstered by strong performing quant and macro funds....
...The relentlessly athletic Pole — who relaxes by building Lego — is achieving Serena-esque dominance....
...US law discourages employers from putting ESG funds into 401(k) retirement plans....
...In December, GSC Game World, the developer of upcoming survival shooter game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, reversed plans to offer NFTs after a vociferous backlash from fans....
...Series such as The Division, Metro and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use the post-apocalypse as a useful foundation to embed traditional game mechanics....
...The full impact of 2022’s tightening of monetary policy is still to be seen, and we expect another 50bp of rate hikes in early-2023....
...That’s a big jump from 2020’s revenues ($139m as stated above). The ability for a company to tell its own story makes a big difference....
...(Lex) Top ECB official privately called investors, banks after key policy decisions (WSJ) Tesla to join S&P 500 in one swoop (FT) U.K. court freezes up to $5 billion tied to alleged Kazakhstan Bank theft...
...Two-thirds of companies in the S&P 500 have mentioned climate change metrics in their 10-K filings this year, according to Datamaran, and the same percentage reported metrics or risks around human capital...
...radically differently in different markets: in the US most pensions are governed by rules that stress fiduciary duty to a point where it is hard to choose sustainability options, and self-controlled 401(k)...
...Nair is wearing the campaign merchandise of her 28-year-old son, Zohran K Mamdani, who has just won the Democratic primary for a New York state assembly seat, defeating a 10-year incumbent....
...This compares to the S&P 500’s YTD decline of 15% and a 19% decline below its all-time high on February 19th. Valuations have contracted in the past three weeks....
...Andrea Dona, Vodafone U.K.’s head of networks, said if the government decides to strictly ban Huawei it would cost Vodafone “low-single-figure billions” to swap out its thousands of Huawei stations and antennas...
...Momentum has been building behind local and federal political efforts to curb tobacco sales....
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