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...One of the hurdles to the deal’s approval is JetBlue’s existing partnership with American Airlines, known as the Northeast Alliance....
...The power producer NRG Energy has shredded its profit outlook and reported sharply lower cash holdings as it contends with widespread defaults and the prospect of political intervention in the Texas energy...
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...The National Weather Service reckons that the “bomb cyclone” will keep churning along the northeast US and dump snow overnight into Friday morning....
...But the company, whose market cap is $5bn, is the largest independent power producer in the US with operations in Texas, California and the US Northeast....
...Elliott’s pressure on Arconic follows its recent success in bringing about a shake-up at Marathon Petroleum, the refining and fuel sales group, and its stakebuilding in NRG Energy, the power generator....
...Shares of wind-exposed yieldcos such as NextEra Energy Partners, Pattern Energy Group and NRG Yield, controlled by NRG Energy, have declined this year....
...UIL and Iberdrola USA will together operate seven regulated utilities in four northeast US states....
...“We are still somewhat cautious because the harsh winter weather could be holding back spending in parts of the country,” US economists at Bank of America said....
...Michael Kors shares were under pressure after it said Sportswear Holdings would sell its remaining stake in the company....
...The £82m plant, which will open this year, will be one of northeast England’s most significant industrial investments since Nissan’s arrival in 1984....
...Founded in 1894, J Barbour and Sons is renowned for its waxed cotton jackets that are still manufactured at the company’s headquarters in Tyne and Wear, northeast England....
...Shares in NRG Energy, the largest IPP, are up a third in the past year. A harsh winter helped it boost its 2014 cash flow outlook by a fifth....
...Faced with the prospect of large losses, banks and traders have been scrambling to limit their losses on metal-backed lending deals in northeast China after local authorities started to investigate claims...
...Some developers that had sufficient cash resources were simply holding their property off the market and not transacting....
...And Hitachi from Japan has set up a crate-opening depot in Northeast Sodor for the intercity contract.” “Well, value-for-money is what matters, not nationality,” said the PM....
...The government says it is taking a stronger grip on the clean-up at the Fukushima site, about 240km northeast of Tokyo....
...The UK’s Northern Rock, originally anchored in Newcastle in the northeast of England, lost its way in its zeal to expand nationwide and duly collapsed in 2007....
...GenOn, based in Houston but serving customers in the northeast US and California, operates more conventional coal and natural gas power plants, and was valued at $1.4bn on Friday....
...Call-centre employment is holding steady overall, he says. But the work is becoming more complex as consumers gravitate to the web for simpler transactions....
...The northeast has been particularly badly hit by the downturn. The austerity policies of George Osborne have added to the woes of the region, which depends heavily on public sector employment....
...First-quarter growth was 5.3 per cent on an annualised basis, lifted by a resurgence of consumer spending and reconstruction efforts in the country’s tsunami-hit northeast....
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