Hints and tips:
...This insurance won’t cover vacation homes but it does help about 1.7mn Floridians. Today, the National Flood Insurance Program is about $20bn in debt....
...And another by Brooke Masters and Patrick Temple-West on the growing transatlantic rift on ESG....
...The U-turn puts S&P at odds with debt rating rival Moody’s, which still rates ESG criteria on a one to five scale. S&P is influential, with debt ratings that can affect a company’s borrowing cost....
...Dignified civic landmarks have already become temples of hedonism. Lutyens’ Midland Bank was one of the first to go....
...Alongside the other inmates he folded the gold and silver paper ingots to be sold in the temples on Mount Heng, Hunan’s famous tourist site....
...(Here’s the video — the Grouch appears at about 1:23:00)....
...If a five year old drew you a $1,000,000 note and asked you to give them candy for it, you wouldn’t call it fraud....
...A local tavern keeper reportedly helped staff by bathing their temples in vinegar....
...Amid tightening monetary conditions, few would expect that pace of expansion to be repeated this year — but Moody’s predicts still rampant growth of 36 per cent, taking total issuance to $1.35tn....
...It was October 1 1994, and a seven-year-old had been murdered. The killing appeared to have been a case of mistaken identity....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...As talks entered their later stages last month, UK inflation hit 9.1 per cent....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Moody’s Rob Fauber explains its newfound risk (analysis) appetite Moody’s bought RMS, a disaster risk analysis company, for $2bn last week, marking the latest in a string of environmental...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Tips from Tamami Nikkei’s Tamami Shimizuishi helps you stay up to date on stories you may have missed from the eastern hemisphere....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Recycled (hot) air?...
...Prometheon, which owed about £231m to its lenders including Indian banks, had only £1,900 in its bank account....
...This month, Moody’s published an analysis of nearly 1,700 North American and European companies showing “a positive relationship between board gender diversity and credit quality”....
...(Gillian Tett) ‘There will be fights’: investors demand say on climate shareholder votes Billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn ended 2020 with a win when Moody’s became the first US company to embrace...
...Moody’s said the upgrade to Baa3 reflected improvements in Vale’s ESG practices....
...Moody’s expects India’s economy, which was set to record its lowest level of growth in a decade even before coronavirus struck, to contract 3.1 per cent in 2020....
...Moody’s paid $864m in 2017 to settle similar charges....
...“Our underwriters say there seems to be insatiable appetite,” said Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, which has a triple A credit rating from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s....
...relatively V-shaped experience....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...33.1 GDP,” Mr Trump said in Tampa, along the Gulf Coast. “We locked down, we understood the disease, and now we are open for business.”...
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