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...The EU’s move comes as it imposes new scrutiny on the iPhone maker, particularly over the company’s $85bn-a-year services business....
...LGIM as well as smaller managers Schroders and Columbia Threadneedle declined to comment....
...aggressive restructuring move without guaranteeing a privileged position to anyone, it can help the company by pitting creditors against one another to offer up a better deal,” said Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia...
...The court is deliberating on another case, Relentless Inc vs Department of Commerce, that seeks to overturn a 40-year-old legal doctrine that says courts should generally defer to agencies’ interpretation...
...Republican politicians have targeted Fink as a symbol of what they refer to as “woke capitalism”, while progressive Democrats contend the money manager has failed to do enough to stop climate change....
...However, it has come under criticism from progressives for pulling out of one of the highest-profile climate alliances, and faced allegations of greenwashing from Australian regulators....
...Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google parent Alphabet and music streaming service Spotify are among the companies that have signalled plans to strike such a balance this year....
...But, as with all things in financial services, the hand that giveth is the hand that takes away....
...“The UAE and Saudi Arabia are some of the most progressive markets in their mindset right now,” Biz2Credit’s Arora said....
...In October, it released an open-source LLM in partnership with Columbia University....
...“There has never been a better time to drink beer in British Columbia.”...
...The measures are also designed to help achieve a “progressive alignment of ISR portfolios with the [2015] Paris Agreement”, it added....
...Republican lawmakers in Congress have accused Gensler of pursuing a “progressive” agenda....
...Angela Lee, an angel investor and professor at Columbia Business School, said “it is obviously good to democratise access to asset classes that are normally difficult to get into”....
...Patrick McHenry, the Republican chair of the House financial services committee, told Gensler during a hearing in April that he was pursuing an “overly aggressive rulemaking agenda”....
...Progressive social activists, meanwhile, are angry that the money managers have been supporting a smaller share of shareholder proposals on climate issues than they did in 2021....
...Apple has lost an attempt to prevent three of its top executives from being called to testify, including Eddy Cue, head of its services business....
...In 2010, Medvedev, then a relatively progressive president, visited the US to promote “restarted” relations between the two countries....
...The ruling deals a heavy blow to one of the most high-profile antitrust challenges under Joe Biden’s administration, which has appointed progressive officials such as FTC chair Lina Khan to crack down on...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 28. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The regulator argued Microsoft could make Activision’s games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service....
...The CMA argued Microsoft could make Activision’s games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service....
...Letter in response to this article: Overseas M&A forms backbone of Japan Inc / From Kiminori Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan...
...“We feel the UK water company debt we have insured has a strong credit profile, as it provides an essential public service and is in a well-regulated industry where we guarantee the senior level debt, all...
...Research by Sandra Murray of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, John Holmes of the University of Waterloo and Dale Griffin of the University of British Columbia suggests that people...
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