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...The company plans to invest €3.7bn between 2023 and 2027 in North America, which includes major expansions of petrochemical plants in Geismar, Louisiana, and in Cincinnati, Ohio....
...Until such time as a court rescinds the Louisiana Purchase, Europe does not have Texan gas or North Dakotan oil. It does not have Oklahoma....
...And not only is industrial policy back — it seems like the US’s public investment might deserve credit for the immaculate cooling we’re seeing on inflation....
...We have more banks this week, with a particular focus on the UK’s high street lenders, as well as earnings calls from both Credit Suisse and UBS....
...Credit unions and banks differ in some fundamental ways, but mostly it's who owns the institution....
...Separately, the GMB union opens a strike ballot among 15,000 ambulance workers across 11 trusts in England and Wales in a dispute over pay....
...In the US, Southwest recorded record profits as demand surged but warned of problems ahead....
...Southwest flight delays drag on into a fourth day Southwest Airlines blamed air traffic control and weather as widespread flight cancellations and delays stretched into a fourth day, while its pilots union...
...Aviation unions have continued to push for legislation even as the deadline passed....
...In the US, Southwest expects operating revenues to fall as much as 95 per cent in April and May, while Delta says current quarter revenues could drop by 90 per cent....
...On the downside of the global shutdown, Delta Air Lines reports on Wednesday and Southwest Airlines on Thursday, both to a backdrop of virtually zero demand thanks to coronavirus....
...The US Energy Information Administration analysed the drop in the country’s carbon dioxide emissions from power generation, and shared out the credit: roughly half the decline came from slower growth in...
...Bank of America, Netflix, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, Schlumberger, General Electric and Southwest Airlines are all on the roster....
...Steve Scalise As House majority whip Mr Scalise of Louisiana is third-ranking Republican and a staunch conservative....
...The US pilots and flight attendants unions back their complaint. Some of their case is well founded....
...“Isn’t it the job of trade unions and employers and academics to set the minimum wage, not the job of politicians?”...
...From Air France, Crédit Lyonnais and France Télécom to GDF Suez, the state has sold off premium assets for almost 30 years....
...Chinese companies are unused to vociferous trade unions or environmental and indigenous activists. Entrenched business elites are another minefield....
...One sticking point in the talks were the precise fees charged by the government in return for providing credit guarantees....
...We look at it as an economic model but we leave out the credit plumbing....
...Positioned as a halfway point, this new route also enables Turkmenistan to act as a gate for traded goods simultaneously between Russia, other post-Soviet states, and southwest Asia....
...Mr Salmond insists that Westminster politicians are bluffing when they say they will block a formal currency union....
...April 16 Donation data for the first week of the campaign revealed Labour’s financial reliance on the unions....
...Meanwhile, some charts and a video that consider whether credit markets are living on borrowed time....
...That may encourage the government, which this week hailed the growth of self-employment despite criticism from the Trades Union Congress....
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