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...Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign trade, says that it is pursuing “government to government” engagement on minerals and that there is “a lot of focus on the African continent...
...Still, the study by Subramanian et al should remind us why we care about globalisation....
...Cruise, the driverless car company owned by General Motors, paused its operations after California regulators barred its vehicles from the state’s roads following an accident in San Francisco....
...Saudi Arabia plans to launch a multibillion-dollar investment company within the PIF, two people familiar with the matter told the FT’s Samer Al-Atrush in Dubai and Samuel Agini, to scout more deals in the...
...Nissan and Renault finalised a shake-up in their alliance in the face of China’s growing strength in electric vehicles....
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...“If Bordeaux had a few big brands doing the job Moët & Chandon and Veuve Clicquot et al have done for their region, Bordeaux as a whole would be in a far better state financially than it is today.”...
..., Covid et al) wouldn’t bring globalisation to a halt....
...Despairing of a strong US presence, America’s allies in the region (Japan, Australia, New Zealand et al) will agonise about how much they can slow-walk China’s application to join the CPTPP....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...A handful of US states including California also have cap-and-trade schemes, while the post-Brexit UK in May launched its own ETS. The UK price has surged above the EU’s at more than £50 a tonne....
...In August, the company announced that it was selling its oil and gas operations to Australia’s Woodside Petroleum for shares to be distributed to BHP shareholders....
...Manchester City’s parent company has become an investor in the planned £350m Co-op Live arena planned with California-based entertainment group Oak View, which was founded by Tim Leiweke, who used to run...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...Job moves Pacific Gas and Electric chief executive Bill Johnson will retire at the end of June after just over a year with the troubled utility....
...Mr Pranoto at the University of Indonesia thinks Mr Thohir made a strong start by clearing out many of the retired government and military officials that had populated the boards of many state companies....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Bankrupt utility Pacific Gas and Electric, which supplies electricity and natural gas to most of northern California, has cut off power to avoid falling wires from igniting fires owing to 80 mile an hour...
...And this one from Rui Ma at Analyse Asia, in which she talks about Xiaopeng Motors and the state of the electric vehicle market....
...“And in terms of why people invest in EM debt, a large part of that argument comes from the diversification in countries in terms of quality of ratings....
...In countries with a large and influential NOC, “there is a strong risk of the company becoming a state-within-a-state and executing a sort of shadow fiscal policy,” the institute points out....
...Eleven years after that target date, electric vehicles were still only about 7 per cent of the cars sold in California in the first nine months of last year....
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