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...Wes Moore, the governor of the state of Maryland, has declared a state of emergency after the elevated roadway’s disintegration into the Patapsco river....
...Much of this year’s cascade into money market funds in the US has been driven by retail investors rather than corporate treasurers, mutual funds and insurance companies....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...If you fancied a weekend away, you could go glamping on the company farm. If this were Amazon or WeWork, it would be creepy....
...Even so, like his counterparts in UK farms and factories, Patel is running into problems at the EU border....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...The Trump administration’s granting of state funding for (costly) COVID-19 testing for patients with no health insurance and Congress’s approval of a $8bn package to fight the spread of the virus bear out...
...That drained money from the commercial paper market, a major source of funding for the nonbank financial companies that had driven the growth of loans as they took market share from the ailing state-controlled...
...(FT) Chinese tankers defy Iran sanctions Maritime data provided to the FT suggests that tankers linked to China’s biggest state-run oil company are transporting Iranian crude oil in defiance of US sanctions...
...Here’s Jefferies: Given the current state of capital markets, in our view this is hardly the ideal time to begin an IPO process, especially for a company that provides 5% investment guarantees to customers...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...According to KBW, the five largest insurers in California by market share are State Farm, Farmers, Liberty Mutual, Allstate and Auto Club Exchange. Many of those are mutuals or privately owned....
...Activists have been urging the insurance sector to steer clear of the Carmichael project in the northern state of Queensland since late last year....
...It sells insurance, legal services and electricals. Annual turnover is about £9.5bn. The group once owned a retail bank, now controlled by bondholders, a pharmacy chain, and several farms....
...Fitch notes the five groups with the biggest homeowners insurance exposures, are: State Farm Group, Heritage Insurance Group (including Hawaii focused Zephyr Insurance Company), USAA Group and Allstate...
...But then Bogle made a fateful mistake, merging Wellington with an aggressive young mutual fund company in Boston....
...Mr Schoen, an agriculture specialist who runs his own cattle farm in Australia, has worked for Cargill and Aquila Capital in the past....
...But he added that Florida specialists such as Federated National and Universal Insurance Holdings were facing hefty payouts....
...Liberty Mutual, the insurance company, which already works with Turo to insure the rented cars, is also investing in the fundraising round....
...“At the moment, insurance companies and pension funds cannot invest in real estate in China,” he says. “Those restrictions are starting to lift.”...
...They included Aerobotics, which is applying AI to aerial photos of farms to help provide crop insurance, and Emerge, which uses machine learning to help insurers improve efficiency. ——————— Four areas...
...of the EU’s single market directives, to do business in other member states purely on the basis of their home state authorisation....
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...“It’s not saying this is working towards a wind farm in New England . . . this is trying to make sure that hard things get easier to solve.”...
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
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