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...Fitch downgraded Allstate’s holding-company credit to BBB+ from A- earlier this year, citing “sharp underwriting result deterioration”....
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, yesterday published details of plans to find £10m of savings, partly cutting some curators’ jobs....
...It gave the global oil market hope that a V-shaped demand recovery was under way. But OilX’s data suggest the teapots’ appetite has waned....
...The companies declined to comment....
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...Among the tidy farms of north-west Iowa, signs painted with prayers and anti-abortion slogans are interspersed with seed company ads....
...It’s a real art deco icon and was featured in the landmark Art Deco exhibition at the V&A in 2003, as well as the Cooper Hewitt’s recent The Jazz Age show.”...
...and public health by reducing diesel and greenhouse gas emissions,” the company said....
...These included acquisitions such as Ewos, a Norwegian salmon feed company, and Diamond V, a manufacturer of yeast culture products to aid animal health....
...Oliver Meyer has joined the Baird Global Investment Banking’s European investment banking group as a managing director....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...The market value of CSX has swelled by about $12bn since his plans to seek a role at the company became public in January, as investors bet he would deliver better performance....
...The FT's Gregory Meyer and Neil Hume have written an in-depth analysis here on what a $30bn tie-up between US rivals Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge would mean for the problems that both companies have...
...— David Brooks in the New York Times suggests that a bit of humility on the part of the big tech companies would go a long way....
...“Compared to the doomsday scenario, things are not that bad,” said Meyer Shields, analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods....
...“There is a whole set of basic expectations about how world trade works and those companies have spent decades building models around it.”...
...(Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers) Today’s poll average...
...companies would soon fail to meet demand....
...gregory.meyer@ft.com...
...The text broadcasts criteria previously issued to just a handful of companies via private rulings....
...Melillo Executive Producer, Brooklyn Academy of Music Dominique Meyer Director, Vienna State Opera Alexander Neef General Director, Canadian Opera Company Timothy O’Leary General Director, Opera Theatre...
...“There is not really a market here yet, but it could be huge,” says Zesty Meyers, co-founder of R & Company, which is showing works by the Los Angeles-based artist David Wiseman and the veteran New York...
...Operations AKQA The Alco Valves Group All3Media International Allstate Northern Ireland Ampetronic A-Safe (UK) Aspen Pumps Axis Productions B The Berkeley Group Holdings BT Technology, Services...
...Farm income has remained high despite last year’s devastating drought with support from $17bn in indemnities from taxpayer-subsidised crop insurance....
...Indemnities from the crop insurance programme could be a record $17bn this year....
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