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...The AI meeting is a British initiative, taking place alongside the G7’s “Hiroshima AI framework”, which has been set up to co-ordinate global regulation of the new sector....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Manufacturing: S&P Global publishes its manufacturing purchasing managers’ indices for the EU, UK and US while the US Institute for Supply Management publishes...
...Meanwhile, Canada’s trade surplus is expected to have fallen from C$1.2bn in October to C$610mn in November....
...“Many people prophesied about writing its epitaph,” Kevin Birn, vice-president and Canadian oil markets chief analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights, told ES....
...“The rise in rates has been so rapid that you see cracks starting to appear,” said Kevin Thozet, a member of the investment committee of French asset manager Carmignac....
...He is the founder and chair of talent management agency M&C Saatchi Merlin and chair of the broader M&C Saatchi UK Group....
...Kevin Birn, head of emissions co-ordination and chief analyst of Canadian oil markets at S&P Global Commodity Insights, reckons that existing projects, currently producing about 3.1mn barrels a day, can...
...“They’ve been talking about decarbonisation for 10 years,” says Kevin Birn, a vice-president in S&P Global Commodity Insights’ GHG Estimation group....
...The rating agency Fitch assigned a low assessment of triple C minus to the bonds, just one notch above default....
...Lex research shows former McKinseyites sit on boards or in C-suites of more than 70 S&P 500 companies, more than a quarter of the index’s market capitalisation of over $30tn....
...And they are everywhere: research by the FT’s Lex column found ex-McKinsey consultants on the boards or in C-suites of more than 70 S&P 500 companies....
...Not so great for Liberty Global and Telefónica, Virgin Media and O2’s respective parent companies....
...In comparison, the 3,260MW Sizewell C facility being built in the UK will cost £20bn ($27bn)....
...The majority of exploration and production companies have decided against imposing pay cuts this year and C-suite compensation will, on average, be higher than it was in 2019....
...: Chris Coleman, Cheltenham, England; Mark Huggins, Buckinghamshire, England; Neil Woolhouse, Wakefield, England Polymath 1,045: Jane Rowe, Cheshire, England Crossword 16,302: Jennifer Burdon, Paris; Kevin...
...Even the double-A-rated tranche — awarded the stellar rating by both Kroll and S&P — has slipped to a junk rating of double B....
...Jonathan Chang has become the third general counsel to depart Tesla in the past year, Bloomberg reported. He is now general counsel at artificial intelligence start-up SambaNova....
...The S&P had topped out in October 2007 - the bear market had begun and the US economy had slipped into recession....
...For 2021 the group expects c.3% growth and a lower margin range of 18.5-19.0% (vs 19.9% at 1H19) suggesting an EBIT range around c.£440-465mn, vs latest cons at £470mn....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...Boeing delivered 806 aircraft last year, below its 2018 target of 810 to 815 but above 2017’s 763 and higher than Airbus, which said it delivered 800 planes, meeting its target of “around 800” subject to...
...Of the 4,322 CLO tranches that were rated by S&P Global Ratings before 2008, only 38 tranches across 22 CLOs have defaulted, notes LCD, a division of S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...,” said Kevin Kwek, a Singapore-based analyst at Sanford C Bernstein. “On the other hand, these guys are Teflon and they have very deep relationships.”...
...In London, Channel 4’s marketing chief, Dan Brooke, said Mr Tindall’s article was “ignorant and misjudged”....
...One, “Ke Guo” is Kevin Guo the chief executive of HNA Innovation Finance. The other, Ke Ikezoe, was more mysterious....
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