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...The Emerging Republican Majority by Kevin P PhillipsThis 1969 masterpiece explains Nixon’s “Southern strategy”, which used race, cultural issues and demographic shifts to destroy the Democratic majority...
...It costs less than $3 per kilogramme for “grey” hydrogen production from fossil fuels, S&P said in a report this year....
...The sector as a whole also breathed a sigh of relief, with the S&P Global Luxury index rising almost 3 per cent....
...Person to watch Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of LVMH, is the most influential figure in the industry for a reason....
...BP has appointed Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc as its next senior independent director in the first major shake-up of the oil major’s board since the departure of CEO Bernard Looney....
...Kathleen Quirk, president of Freeport-McMoran, the largest US copper producer, said that higher copper prices alone would not be enough to secure enough metal needed for the world to go green....
...Regarding ownership concentration, bitcoin’s pales beside Bernard Arnault’s 48 per cent stake in LVMH, let alone his majority voting share....
...Admittedly, you would have done even better in US stocks, given the 170 per cent rise in the S&P 500 over the decade....
...In the US — where it is less common to have been on the board prior to taking the top job — 17 per cent of the 245 S&P 1500 chiefs appointed since the start of last year were company directors before they...
...A Harvard Business Review analysis from 2021 estimated that bad chief executive and C-suite successions wiped out $1tn in market value from the S&P 1500 a year....
...Last week, BP chief Bernard Looney resigned over his failure to disclose the extent of past personal relationships inside the company....
...The company subsequently grew by acquiring other companies and counts Platts, part of credit rating company S&P, among its competitors....
...BP has had a tumultuous few months following reports about chief executive Bernard Looney’s undisclosed past relationships with colleagues....
...BAE Systems’ Charles Woodburn, and BP’s Bernard Looney were paid more than £10mn each, as was Albert Manifold, boss of CRH, which is moving its listing to the US....
...The S&P 500 index is down 20 per cent from the start of the year; long-term bonds have had their worst year since the 18th century; and the long-established 60/40 investment strategy was hit with its worst...
...On Monday, BlackRock said the 3mn retail holders in its $305bn S&P 500 exchange traded fund could choose not to follow its line on company votes....
...As Lex notes, Tapestry’s dealmaking record isn’t great and analysts at S&P cut the company’s outlook to negative on the deal....
...Climate activists have already made a stir at the AGMs across the Atlantic, forcing fossil fuel bosses such as BP’s Bernard Looney and Shell’s Wael Sawan to defend their emissions plans....
...Bernard Ahkong, co-chief investment officer at UBS Asset Management’s hedge fund unit O’Connor, said: “We don’t want companies to boost dividends in an unsustainable fashion only to then have to cut them...
...Not a great look when the S&P 500 equity index was up about 3.4 per cent over the same period. It marks yet another disappointing episode for the hedge fund industry....
...Bernard Looney, BP’s chief executive, came to Houston — but his session focused on the company’s electric-vehicle charging ambitions with Hertz, the car hire firm....
...The ‘Czech sphinx’ prowling France for deals In the country home to Bernard Arnault and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers — ranked by Forbes as the world’s richest man and woman, respectively — another power...
...Bernard Arnault promotes daughter in LVMH reshuffle LVMH chief executive Bernard Arnault has promoted his daughter Delphine to run fashion brand Dior as part of a reshuffle at the world’s largest luxury...
...Just like last year’s Clifford the Big Red Dog, this utterly insane but oddly endearing family feature revamps an old piece of kids’ intellectual property — in this case, Bernard Waber’s early 1960s books...
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard and Liz Faunce Letters in response to this article:Mining veteran reflects on the state of the industry / From Chris Hinde, Former Director (Mining), S&P Global Market...
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