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...Allwyn had been planning to go public in a €9.3bn Spac merger with blank-cheque company Cohn Robbins Holdings Corp but both parties called off the deal in September citing volatile market conditions....
...A similar complaint was filed in Illinois in 2019....
...It is also sanctioning Turkey’s Ice Pearl Navigation Corp, whose Yasa Golden Bosphorus ship handled Russian crude bought for more than $80 a barrel....
...On February 3, a 150-car train travelling from Illinois to Pennsylvania left the tracks and caught fire near East Palestine, a village along Ohio’s eastern border....
...“They have trod carefully, and he has taken advantage of that,” said David Rosenfeld, an associate professor at Northern Illinois University....
...Alliance Resource Partners, with mines in Appalachia and the Illinois Basin of the US Midwest, said net income jumped by almost half to $52mn....
...The Canadian company and several of its peers including Canfor Corp have been buying mills across the main timber growing regions of the US south where prices for logs have slumped because so many trees...
...A relatively unknown state senator from Illinois gave the keynote address at Kerry’s nominating convention....
...Bets on stocks such as Sanford Corp and Specialty Equipment paid off handsomely, helping Ariel make killer returns for its clients and proving that Rogers could manage money just like his idol Buffett....
...of Illinois....
...In September it said it would retire all of Dynegy’s coal plants in Illinois and Ohio by 2027 as part of a broader pivot to cleaner energy....
...The 1,172-mile pipeline was completed in 2017 and runs from the Bakken shale formation to an Illinois oil storage and transport hub....
...Ohio last year became the fifth US state — following Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York — to approve aid to nuclear power plants facing low-cost competition from natural gas, solar and wind...
...Demand for coal has been falling in the US and a warm winter across much of the northern hemisphere has pulled down the price of natural gas, making it cheaper than coal for power stations....
...Indorama Ventures is part of Singapore-based Indorama Corp....
...In its latest quarter, Union Pacific said it had curtailed operations at two rail yards in Illinois and one in Texas and stored 2,150 locomotives....
...Homebuilders have faced headwinds from elevated prices and interest rates that kept potential buyers on the sidelines, as well as higher lumber prices and a labour shortage....
State-owned CRRC faces claims that its rail cars could be used for spying
...Homebuilder confidence in September sat at its weakes level this year, owing to high materials costs, particularly lumber, and rising labour costs....
...“Although a link has been made to salads sold in McDonald’s restaurants in some Illinois cases, public health officials continue to investigate other sources,” said Nirav Shah, director of the Illinois Department...
...The Trump administration last year imposed 20 per cent tariffs on imported Canadian softwood lumber arguing that its northern neighbour subsidises the industry in a way that is detrimental to the US....
...“I think there is, overall, very little pushback on price increases,” Michael Larson, chief financial officer of Illinois Tool Works, told a Jefferies conference earlier this month....
...However, the downside for homebuilders is a shortage of land and skilled labour and higher lumber costs that is constraining construction....
...One attendee is Noah Praetz, director of elections for Cook County in Illinois, who has worked on elections for 18 years, since what he calls the “wedding planner era of election administration”....
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