Hints and tips:
...Hovenkamp: The first difficulty is the market power question....
...That was equal to more than a fifth of advertising revenue and was more than the company paid for R&D....
...Pre-salt production rose from 41,000 b/d in 2010 to 2.3mn last year, fuelling record annual profits of R$188bn (US$39bn) and dividends of R$216bn at the company....
...“If you’ve got this fuel that’s cheaper and readily available, and you’re getting the tax credit for it, that may incentivise not investing money, time and R&D in these new fuels,” she said....
...Ramping up fusion R&D should not distract from the need to improve the proven nuclear fission technology that powers existing power stations, particularly by introducing a new generation of small modular...
...But Wigdor does not have the power to obtain search warrants. He has never spoken to Black about the allegations....
...Petrobras suffered losses of R$18bn ($3.4bn) as a result of the cartel, Brazil’s federal audit court estimated in 2020....
...There he invested in biofuels and set up electric vehicle-charging partnerships....
...Toys “R” Us, for instance, fell into restructuring....
...In short: the promise of crypto is not anonymity, but the decentralisation of power through transparency....
...A joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and the energy conglomerate Cosan that produces biofuel derived from sugarcane is seeking to raise R$6.9bn ($1.34bn) through a stock market listing that would rank...
...CD&R’s 285 pence per share bid has already been recommended by Morrisons’ board. The approval of three-quarters of shareholders is still required. A vote is due on October 19....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired Gordon Riske, chief executive of KION Group, as an operating adviser to CD&R Funds....
...Listed groups, from the infrastructure company John Laing to the power supplier Aggreko, have been in the industry’s sights....
...Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza was elected to Brazil’s National Congress three years ago, and has put forward the idea of creating an unelected head of state with powers to veto the legislature’s decisions...
...Who knows, maybe battery power won’t be the only answer to emissions-free riding? Perhaps hydrogen and biofuels could be the key to greater range and higher performance.”...
...His family investment vehicle — Sutardja Family LLC — also owns 11.9 per cent of the business, according to the IPO prospectus....
...DD’s Mark Vandevelde, Sujeet Indap and Kaye Wiggins have answers, explaining who holds power — and who might be most inclined to wield it. Read their deep dive here....
...But the IEA says this is precisely why spending on R&D is so important....
...Needless to say, the hedge fund that gained notoriety last year for taking on both Blackstone’s GSO and Toys R Us employees is now suffering heavy redemptions....
...If that phrase shades into “pricing power”, LSE bulls may have unwittingly encouraged regulators to take a tough line. A rival bid for Refinitiv DD thinks this is unlikely....
...Meanwhile, the microbial focus in food and agritech comes as the shale boom in the US has led to lower biofuel demand, forcing many plant biologists to use their knowhow in other areas....
...Michael Leuchten, a research analyst at UBS, credited Soriot with “giving the organisation its R&D mojo back”....
...It is pointed out that the United States relinquished the claims to Northern Greenland, which it had put forward in view of the late Rear-Admiral R.E....
...Shell said it was investing about 10 per cent of its $1bn annual R&D budget on renewables and less than a quarter on what it defines as low-carbon initiatives — such as hydrogen, biofuels and carbon capture...
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