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...Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, who serves as chair of the US House foreign affairs committee and is in Tel Aviv, told CBS News on Sunday that there were “very sensitive” discussions ongoing with...
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith, Insurance Correspondent...
...Legislation designed to thwart environmental, social and governance investing and financing has been adopted in several states, including Florida and Texas....
...Terminal V did not respond to a request for comment....
...Economic data: The Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve reports its monthly outlook survey on manufacturing activity in Texas....
...In September, Baylor College of Medicine won a $48.5mn case against insurers, including Lloyd’s of London, after a Texas judge decided to put the question of physical loss to a jury....
...The Texas-based company was later investigated for bribery by the Serious Fraud Office in 2015, and two Afren executives were jailed for fraud and money laundering....
...US Supreme Court blocks Texas social media ‘censorship’ law The Supreme Court yesterday froze a censorship law in Texas known as HB20 that would have prohibited platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from...
...Rolls-Royce has hired BP veteran Nicola Grady-Smith as chief transformation officer....
...The UK has comparative advantage in speciality insurance underwriting, as embodied by Lloyd’s of London. This institution expects to chalk up some big losses of its own from the Ukraine war....
...and March durable goods orders Results: 3M Q1, Alphabet Q1, Associated British Foods H1, GE Q1, General Motors Q1, HSBC Q1, Iveco Q1, Kuehne & Nagel Q1, Microsoft Q3, Nomura FY, Novartis Q1, PepsiCo Q1, Texas...
..., Nissan Motor Q1, Northrop Grumman Q2, OMV Q2, Orange H1, Panasonic Q1, Pfizer Q2, Relx H1, Rentokil Initial H1, Repsol Q2, Royal Dutch Shell Q2, Samsung Q2, Sanofi-Aventis Q2, Schroders H1, Segro H1, Smith...
...You know, we saw the last CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein. He led the bank for 12 years before he ultimately left in 2018....
...“Our collective goal . . . is to end this war,” Julianne Smith, US ambassador to Nato, told reporters this week....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...(FT) What else we’re reading The battle for Texas For decades, Republicans have won Texas and its 38 electoral college votes, second in number only to California....
...; Amgen; BP; Centene; Ecolab; Eli Lilly; Fiserv; General Electric; HSBC; Illumina; Marsh & McLennan Companies; Microsoft; Mondelez International; Roper Industries; Sherwin-Williams; Starbucks; Stryker; Texas...
...(FT) Texas grid operator directors quit The independent directors of the embattled Texas grid operator resigned on Tuesday as the financial and political fallout from last week’s electricity crisis continued...
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Smith & Nephew “lowers growth outlook amid coronavirus uncertainty” and its shares are up more than 8 per cent....
...Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson, France; Hugh Guilford, Buckinghamshire, England Polymath 1,064: Michael Foottit, London Crossword 16,413: James Leaver, Sydney; Ardeshir Dalal, Texas...
...Lloyds has poached HSBC global head of wealth and personal banking Charlie Nunn as its new chief, replacing António Horta-Osório....
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...In places like Florida and Texas, you are seeing rising caseloads — which will eventually result in more deaths — in some poor, white, rural areas that Trump might ordinarily have carried....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
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