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...Some state legislatures, including Florida, Kansas and Idaho, have passed laws that ban or limit the consideration of ESG....
...An official report blamed a $4.1bn futures trade from a fund manager in Kansas....
...• American Century, the $191bn Kansas City-based asset manager, is ramping up preparations for its entry into the ETF industry early next year with the appointment of Matt Lewis as head of ETF implementation...
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...“The one thing that can blow this whole thing up, is losing control of credit,” said Brian Graham, chief executive of Alliance Partners, a big buyer of Lending Club loans, at an investor event hosted by...
...He reiterated earlier statements that the grain industry needed consolidation in some locations, such as the US, and that Bunge sought to pursue regional alliances with partners....
...“In cases of negative prices, they’re actually getting paid to take that energy and help relieve the oversupply condition,” says Don Fuller, ISO director of strategic alliances....
...Some traders have responded by shifting to higher margin areas such as fish food, but others are seeking joint ventures or alliances....
...Republicans, meanwhile, have belatedly begun highlighting the Democratic party’s network of plutocratic backers, linked to a donor group called the Democracy Alliance....
...Bunge this year idled a Kansas soyabean processing plant as US stocks of the oilseed dwindled too low to keep running....
...The majority of options on hard red winter wheat were still handled on the Kansas City floor, however....
...The 156-year-old Kansas City exchange lists futures and options on hard red winter wheat, a variety grown in the US great plains and prized by bread bakers....
...On Monday, the CME said it would move wheat futures pits to Chicago from Kansas City, ending 157 years of floor trading there....
...Most tech companies facing a fundamental shift in technology architecture are cut down like so much autumn wheat....
...have yet to hit 10 per cent of the three – Chicago, Kansas City and Paris – put together....
...The worst areas are Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas. Oklahoma is also suffering....
...In the US, the company purchased the Kansas City wheat exchange for $126m in cash last week, adding to its dominance in the grain futures market....
...CHS owns two refineries in Montana and Kansas, locations which benefit from crude prices discounted by the supply boom in the central US and Canada....
...than what you get sometimes on a 9:30 opening,” said Jason Britt, president of broker Central States Commodities, referring to the previous reopening times at CBOT, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and the Kansas...
...It is one of the top producers and exporters of sunflower seed and oil, barley, wheat and corn....
...Alliance Grain, a Saskatchewan-based grains processor, said the ability to buy wheat directly from farmers has encouraged it to build a C$50m pasta and pulse-milling plant in Canada, rather than in the US...
...That establishes Waddell & Read, a Kansas-based mutual fund company, as the second biggest shareholder after CVC, with about 21 per cent of F1....
...Earlier this week, Repsol announced a joint exploration venture in Russia with Alliance Oil, of which Repsol holds 51 per cent....
...If Mrs Clinton’s 2009 trip to Moscow was designed to “reset” relations with Russia, her arrival in Pakistan, after a stopover in Kabul, is a salvage operation of an alliance on a knife-edge....
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