Hints and tips:
...The UL network traces its roots to a late 19th century effort to help insurance companies save money by testing electrical products for fire risk....
...Barings, a subsidiary of US life insurer MassMutual, filed on Monday for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Corinthia Global Management in a North Carolina court....
...Art Pope, chair of a North Carolina-based retail chain and a Haley donor, says he will never vote for Biden, but is undecided on Trump....
...Allstate, State Farm and AIG have stopped underwriting new homeowners’ policies in California because of the risk of destructive wildfires....
...off the north-east coast....
...He is, for instance, director of the Mount Olive Pickle Company, a local pickling business in an eponymous North Carolina town where First Citizens operates a branch....
...Less than two weeks later, it said New York Community Bank would buy most of Signature and soon after, that North Carolina-based First Citizens would take over almost all the deposits and loans of SVB....
...A lot of Chinese companies have started looking in this direction,” said Ling, who used to work for South Carolina’s commerce department but now brokers deals nationwide....
...We settled on the Domino’s at 2601 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor — the closest store to Domino’s headquarters cluster (which includes a petting farm)....
...Scaringe told a local radio station that the Normal area, with a diverse economy that includes agriculture, universities and the headquarters of the State Farm insurance company, was different from other...
...A credit default derivative is insurance you take out on a broad sector like mortgages, or it could be on an individual company like IBM or GE....
...Others are planned off the coasts of the Carolinas and California later this year, the interior department said....
...In the winter of 1800, Nathaniel Macon, congressman from North Carolina, angrily took the floor of the House of Representatives....
...At the peak of the panic-buying following the outage, as many as three-quarters of fuel stations in North Carolina were left without petrol....
...(FT) Trump battles ‘purple wave’ in North Carolina push When Donald Trump formally accepted his party’s nomination for president on Monday, he thanked the people of North Carolina, saying he had decided...
...Far from Silicon Valley, in states such as Iowa, Nevada and North Carolina, Apple has been investing billions of dollars to build out server farms to run its iMessage, App Store, Apple Music or iCloud services...
...Mr Biden remained within six electoral college votes of victory on Friday morning, with counts ongoing in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina....
...Nine out of ten festival organisers said that their companies were at risk without government intervention....
...Bureau Federation, the industry lobbying group....
...This makes it just the fifth US company to IPO as a B Corp. More than 3,400 private businesses are B Corps, such as Danone North America. But standalone public B Corps are exceedingly rare....
...David Gardner writes that a war of attrition in north-west Syria is spiralling out of control....
...From hurricane deluges on Florida resorts to parched farm towns in rural America, investors are scrambling to address the emerging physical threats their assets face from climate change....
...AmCham points out that companies in Shenzhen, which have tended to dominate production of technology outsourced from the US, may farm out lower-end assembly to neighbouring countries while holding on to...
...Among the tidy farms of north-west Iowa, signs painted with prayers and anti-abortion slogans are interspersed with seed company ads....
...We support it because it provides much-needed relief to farmers who are facing the worst markets in many years,” a farm bureau spokesman said....
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