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...The US consortium’s approach to the government comes as prime minister Boris Johnson prepares to give a speech setting out a “10 point plan” of how the country proposes to meet the 2050 goal....
...And . . . that freelance lawyer happened to be appointed prime minister of Italy just weeks after taking on the contract....
...The textbook example of this is PepsiCo’s interest in French yoghurt maker Danone in 2005, which led Dominique de Villepin, then French prime minister, to warn the US company to stay away from a corporate...
...This is already being seen in its use of advertising, rankings and tiered access to priority services via initiatives like Prime (arguably repressing inflation synthetically in the process)....
...Utilities can be valued on their regulatory asset base but some trade at significant premiums to this measure....
...Australian gas producers were mixed in Wednesday afternoon trading after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said three liquefied natural gas suppliers had agreed to a domestic supply deal, avoiding export curbs...
...A series of underground utility tunnels will house utilities like electrical wires and water pipes, and also provide pathways for freight-delivering robots....
...Such strains are likely to intensify given that the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe remains distracted by a scandal over his wife’s links to a kindergarten that was sold state-owned land for a small...
...Hinkley Point, for which Prime Minister Theresa May reluctantly gave the go ahead last year, is still in doubt because a new French government after elections in May could decide that subsidies to the state-owned...
...So their prime asset is worth more than the entire group.” Knight Vinke’s activism has had mixed results over the years....
...Abide has become one of Europe’s largest reporting utilities, with approval to process equities and energy deals....
...Theresa May, prime minister, is expected to decide this month whether to go ahead with Hinkley, led by EDF of France with Chinese backing, after ordering a review of the £18bn project....
...The British pound hit a three-year low against the euro and neared July’s three-decade low versus the dollar – after Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she would trigger Article 50 by March 2017,...
...Executives said Theresa May’s go-ahead for the Hinkley project, which is led by EDF, the French utility, with Chinese backing, had removed doubts about the prime minister’s commitment to the renewal of the...
...The agreement, which came during a meeting between US President Barack Obama and India’s prime minister Narendra Modi at the White House, represented a significant advance in civilian nuclear co-operation...
...As recently as a few months ago, the alternative energy targets announced by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2014 seemed wildly overambitious — even to solar electricity enthusiasts in...
...Analysts attribute the rise of subscription services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime as part of the reason for Viacom’s woes....
...That is a real problem for Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, in his attempts to promote a new Japanese renaissance....
...However, both he and Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok claim the new cabinet won’t make any decision on Temelin. Rusnok and his cabinet face a confidence vote by August 8....
...The co-owners of a second consortium, German utilities Eon and RWE, last year sold their site in Anglesey to Japan’s Hitachi....
...The state-controlled utility CEZ disqualified Areva from the estimated €8bn-€12bn tender to build two new reactors at the Temelin nuclear power plant back in October 2012 over what it said were “serious...
...By Nicholas Watson of bne The Czech prime minister assured his Russian counterpart on May 27 that the process for choosing the winner of the country’s nuclear tender would be fair and transparent....
...The recently elected government led by prime minister Shinzo Abe has said it would look to restart any reactors deemed safe by inspectors, but the timetable for doing so remains unclear....
...The $39bn purchase of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Berkshire’s largest ever, is a prime example....
...Shares in Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, are down 22 per cent since March 2011 when the fund took a 6.2 per cent stake....
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