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...Louisiana treasurer John Schroder said last week he was withdrawing $794mn from BlackRock....
...Jason Gabelman, an analyst at TD Cowen, said the deal would most likely allow Exxon to “sidestep a potentially difficult process of building its own CO₂ pipeline in service of its own CCS ambitions” and...
...The agency, founded in 1956, was the first African-American full-service advertising agency....
...In October, Missouri state treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced that the state had pulled $500mn in state pension funds from BlackRock, and Louisiana yanked $794mn from BlackRock funds....
...Louisiana, Utah, and South Carolina are among those that are pulling money from the fund manager. Texas, among others, have threatened to do the same....
...Republicans in Texas have targeted BlackRock as “hostile” to fossil fuel, and the state treasurers of Louisiana, West Virginia and Arkansas have collectively pulled out about $700mn of investments....
...Iger and his former lieutenant, Kevin Mayer, architected the ESPN+ streaming service, which has lured 17m subscribers....
...Tech tools — Google’s Woolaroo Ever wondered what the word for tree is in Louisiana Creole or Maori or Yugambeh or Tamazight?...
...The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have “admitting privileges” at nearby hospitals....
...At the end of 2018 CoreCivic, which has a market value of $2.3bn, managed almost 80 correctional, detention and re-entry facilities with 78,000 beds....
...The Louisiana-based telecoms company said that it does not expect to report any material changes to its published results for 2018 but that it needs to conduct additional auditing and testing of its controls...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 8 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Darden said it arranged for affected customers to receive free identity protection services....
...Yet his epiphany on reforms came several decades ago while he was working at a correctional institute not far from Angola....
...Baker Hughes, General Electric’s affiliate that provides products and services for the oil and gas industry, is supplying equipment for the expansion at Corpus Christi, and hoping for more orders....
...The combination will pair CenterPoint’s natural gas business in Arkansas, Louisiana and Minnesota with Vectren, which provides natural gas to more than 1m consumers in Indiana and Ohio....
...“It’s a throwback to a lot of the petroleum engineers being the good ol’ boys in Oklahoma and Louisiana,” she says....
...With more export plants to come into service to 2020, the Trump administration has been encouraged to talk about a policy of “energy dominance”....
...John Neely Kennedy, Republican senator from Louisiana, asked Mr Sloan during the hearing this week. “I’m not against large . . . I’m not against big,” Senator Neely Kennedy added....
...Whereas the cost of smoking was largely limited to medical bills, drug addiction is putting pressure on an array of public services, from children’s care to prisons and policing....
...Restaurant Brands International, which owns Burger King and Tim Hortons, agreed a deal to buy Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen in February at a multiple of 19.6 times ebitda....
...The advent of ship tracking software, satellite data on crop conditions and other services has also eroded the value of traders’ inside knowledge of commodity flows....
...It has dropped to about $6.65 per million British thermal units, just a third of its price of almost $19 per mBTU two years ago, according to Argus, the information service....
...Commission since it opened the IEX application up to public comment, far more than usual, written by everyone from hedge funds like Citadel to the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund and individual investors in Louisiana...
...Beneficiaries would get a basket of real goods and services that met their needs once they retired, rather than fixed nominal payments....
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