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...“Infrastructure investment came to the US in the early 2000s and it was dominated by a handful of people who were mostly project finance, utilities and municipal bankers,” says one senior industry executive...
...The main themes for this week’s results are retail (Marks and Spencer, Gap, Best Buy, Abercrombie & Fitch and Kingfisher), utilities (SSE, Severn Trent and United Utilities) and tech (Nvidia)....
...In exchange PPL will buy Rhode Island-based utility NECO from National Grid for an equity value of $3.8bn....
...That is huge for municipal bonds, which I think would rally.”...
...The municipal, which owns Silicon Valley Power, a not-for-profit utility, added: “over the past five years, the city has acquired over 400MW of additional [greenhouse gas]-free energy and closed a coal-powered...
...This would also help to reduce the enlarged group's reliance on municipal contracts, consistent with Veolia's strategy....
...Without enough electricity to pump reservoirs, water shortages are also looming in parts of Johannesburg, a municipal utility said....
...The communications strategy seemed “kind of a mess”, as Slate put it....
...In some cities, even municipal gravediggers left the dead unburied....
...Mr Spencer said that Prepa would not have to make principal or interest payments on the loan for up to two years if the utility accepted the deal....
...You may remember the paper on ExxonMobil’s communications on climate change, written by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes at Harvard University, which I discussed in last week’s email....
...Within the $3.8tn US municipal bond market, this type of debt is seen as among the safest a city or state can issue....
...There is also still a management issue as chief executive Jill McDonald moves to Marks and Spencer....
...it springs $3.5tn to $4tn [of pension priorities ahead of bonds],” says Stephen Spencer, of Houlihan Lokey, which is advising bondholders of Puerto Rico’s electricity utility....
...Watch Marks and Spencer’s new energy business grow on the basis of a trusted brand name....
...through access to the United States municipal bond market, and the lowest long-term utility rates possible for the Puerto Rican people....
...SSE (Utilities) 136. Virgin Money (Finance) 137. Charter Communications (Telecommunications) 138. Wm Morrison (Retail) 139. BT (Telecommunications) 140. TSB (Finance) 141. Staples (Retail) 142....
...Local officials struggling to put social and employment initiatives in place in their own areas control only 4 per cent of municipal budgets allocated for these purposes from central state budgets....
...SLWA is the consumer brand of Utility Service Partners of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, which is majority owned by Australia’s Macquarie Capital....
...Among the financiers who mingled as they sipped their champagne were ICAP’s Michael Spencer; Pru chairman Paul Manduca; RBS’s Ross McEwan; and the brothers Michael and Yoel Zaoui....
...underpinning the world’s communications and transport infrastructure....
...Of the first year’s intake, more than 1,200 completed the four-week scheme, which mixes work experience with training in skills such as communication and team work....
...“If we find that building our own municipal broadband is the best way forward for our citizens then I will lead the way,” he said....
...British Gas may not be in such a hurry to repeat its debut in the Twittersphere after the utility whipped hundreds of Twitter users into a frenzy when it hosted a live Q&A chat on the same day it announced...
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