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...Folwell, the North Carolina treasurer, has said his office has taken over proxy voting from BlackRock for its funds with the firm, and New York City already voted its own shares....
...In North Carolina, state Republican treasurer Dale Folwell has publicly criticised BlackRock while leaving $18.4bn with the money manager....
...After absorbing the companies involved in the deal — the East Ohio Gas Company, Public Service Company of North Carolina and Questar Gas Company — and their 3mn customers across Ohio, North Carolina, Utah...
...Republican state treasurers around the US have pledged to pull more than $3bn from BlackRock funds over its efforts to address climate change, and the North Carolina treasurer called for the resignation...
...Rui Costa, governor of the north-eastern state of Bahia and a close ally of Lula, said he had faith in the former president’s “capacity for dialogue and to talk even with political opponents”....
...On Friday, North Carolina treasurer Dale Folwell called for founder Larry Fink to resign or be removed as chief executive of the $8tn asset manager....
...As the month ends, a majority of SVB’s assets have now been sold to North Carolina lender First Citizens bank for a hefty discount....
...And justices on Thursday accepted a case involving North Carolina that could give states free rein to regulate federal elections....
...The bankruptcy court in Charlotte, North Carolina, has become a hub for large asbestos-related bankruptcies, including a recent filing by DBMP, an affiliate of Saint-Gobain....
...In the early months of his 2012 re-election campaign, a jacketless Barack Obama stood in front of a natural-gas-powered truck at a plant in North Carolina....
...He might become a powerful force for Bolsonaro to reckon with.” Additional reporting by Carolina Ingizza...
...Jill Hertzberg, wearing a Carolina Herrera dress, comes downstairs from the almost-renovated Venetian Islands house and tells me it has just sold for $25mn. To a guy from California....
...“We see a real struggle between building gas and being serious about decarbonisation,” said Maggie Shober, director of utility reform at Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, a pressure group....
...Additional reporting by Leonardo Coelho and Carolina Pulice...
...Mr Trump, meanwhile, on Wednesday suggested voters in North Carolina should stress-test the security of their elections systems by voting twice — an act that is illegal under US law....
...Other southern states, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky all now host Chinese factories....
...North Carolina has offered Honeywell $46m in incentives based on employment each year....
...(FT, Quartz) North Carolina election rerun President Donald Trump is betting that his political brand will help Republicans keep hold of a North Carolina US House seat in a special election on Tuesday....
...Later this year, Zipline has plans to start operations in the US, in North Carolina, and in south-east Asia....
...“The combined company will enhance its already robust efforts to address the social determinants of health such as food insecurity, housing instability, homelessness, unemployment, lack of access to transportation...
...of rural North Carolina where he does most of his sourcing....
...GFG Alliance, the acquisitive industrial conglomerate led by British metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta, is buying a US steel company for $320m as it pursues plans to invest $5bn in North America....
...By 2012, the regime was well into a crackdown on those calling for reform....
...Red Hat, which will retain its headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, following the takeover, has been the company most closely associated with Linux and other open-source technologies since it was founded...
...At the Flying J truck stop, driver Alvin Perry, taking a break before continuing his journey to North Carolina, says he has been poached four times in two years....
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