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...France has not managed to achieve a surplus in its primary budget that excludes interest costs since 2008 and rating agency S&P Global this week forecast that on this measure its deficit would remain one...
...In all, four companies spent more than $1mn on private jet travel for their chief executives in 2022 — Meta, Lockheed Martin, Netflix and Las Vegas Sands — versus two in 2021....
...Eighty-six per cent of S&P 500 companies already report through CDP, and 94 per cent of the UK’s FTSE 100....
...S&P, the rating agency, has negative outlooks for two-thirds of the UK water companies it rates — indicating the possibility of downgrades as the result of weaker financial resilience....
...Michelle Bachelet is the former president of Chile and served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022 Marie-Claire Daveu CSO by Anya Hindmarch The work that Marie-Claire Daveu is doing...
...Bad rap: Ukraine’s western allies should acknowledge the country’s progress in fighting corruption, writes Martin Sandbu....
...Valdis Dombrovskis, Europe’s trade commissioner, said last week that the fight against climate change should be done by “building transatlantic value chains, not breaking them apart”....
...Earlier this month S&P Global’s purchasing manager indices showed the sharpest decline in private sector activity since November 2020....
...Behnam and CFTC commissioner Kristin Johnson both pointed to LedgerX’s survival as evidence of the efficacy of the commission’s oversight....
...Frankfurt bureau chief Martin Arnold previews tomorrow’s policy meeting of the European Central Bank as it prepares to end eight years of bond-buying and negative interest rates, while economics editor Chris...
...Separately, Hamilton, the sport’s only black driver, is leading the conversation on correcting F1’s infamous lack of diversity. Liberty Media is sticking around nonetheless....
...Dame Cressida told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she had ordered her officers to clamp down if it was obvious that people were flouting the rules....
...That would now change, S&P Global ratings said on Wednesday, as it warned that it might cut GE’s credit rating by one notch in response. Call it the Blob’s revenge....
...Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and X consoles also go on sale....
...To help them out, scholars at think-tank Bruegel have devised a new allocation key which is based not on Covid-19’s economic impact but on the precise economic structures of Europe’s regions....
...Not enough guarantee of US and EU member state support to be worth the risk of giving up the trade commissioner job....
...(FT) Three-way pact Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has been elected as Ireland’s new prime minister....
...“We need to take this situation extremely seriously — but we must not give in to panic and of course to disinformation,” said Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s health commissioner....
..., CA, US Daniel Mosley House of Lords, London SW1, UK John Krebs Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK Tim Stone Former board member of the European Investment Bank (2003-2018) Jeffrey S...
...Paolo Gentiloni, the new economic commissioner, tells the FT “the EU will deliver on its own if there is not an OECD decision”....
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs on Monday....
...There is also rising scrutiny of another “S”: how companies treat their staff. As with the supply chain issues, companies may have self interest in this respect too....
...Forty-five chief executives have been pushed out of US consumer companies this year, almost double 2018’s headcount....
...Robert Jackson, a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission, also expressed concerns at the hearing....
...Index providers, including S&P Global, MSCI and FTSE Russell, face pressure from a global coalition of investors that is demanding they strip out controversial weapons manufacturers from mainstream benchmarks...
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