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...Southern nations are still making the case for a more robust intervention in energy markets to calm down the spiralling prices, as the Spanish premier tells the Financial Times....
...“They wake up at 4am to watch an [Indian Premier League] match,” said Satyan Gajwani, an executive at Times Group, India’s largest media company, and one of the co-founders of Major League Cricket....
...Formula One, the global motor racing series, has called off Grands Prix in Australia, Bahrain, Vietnam, China, the Netherlands, Spain, Monaco and Azerbaijan so far....
...• Funds flow to equities relative to bonds has never held up this well (given performance and low bullish sentiment) because: i) bonds risk no longer diversifying, and ii) pension/insurance companies’...
...Previous trips to the Netherlands have always been to Amsterdam, although I once spent an afternoon in The Hague....
...Highly indebted companies fall into bankruptcy all the time....
...Then, on Wednesday, Britain’s premier low-cost airline said it would do exactly that: “EasyJet to sue over French air strikes,” reported the BBC website....
...I took out a pension at 18 because I met an insurance broker who told me it was a good idea....
...At the very top of the structure is Altice’s “topco” — the entity at which its Netherlands-listed shares sit and which has more than €2.3bn of debt....
...Other businesses are offloading their schemes to insurance providers....
...The joint venture also donated $10m to improve the electricity network in Kyaukphyu. The oil pipeline, owned by another consortium that also includes CNPC, started pumping in 2015....
...● Investors pumping funds into Indian ecommerce enterprises with the hope of reaping quick returns could be left disappointed as the frenzy surrounding the Indian Premier League cricket tournament builds...
...Now, we were doing it partly because Northern Rock was there and we were pumping money into Northern Rock. That went to the banking system....
...The big pension funds and insurance companies should be interested in this sector.”...
...Some companies have already started taking measures to protect their assets against the threat of climate change....
...“Especially in the case of sovereign bonds, the markets are in large part made up of pension funds and insurance companies trying to protect the value of their investments, so they can honour their liabilities...
...In other cases, the pain will be even more broadly felt, says Huw van Steenis, analyst at Morgan Stanley. “I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...: Oil & gas production Location: US 3-year TSR: -64.1% 36 Name: Harriet Green Company: Premier Farnell Sector: Support services Location: UK 3-year TSR: -25.6% 37 Name: Ines Kolmsee Company: SKW...
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...Revisionist history Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, has always been a tough businessman, but even he might have felt a bit hurt if he...
...Premier Oil rose 4.5 per cent to 698½p while Hardman Resources, the company with most exposure to the drilling programme, rose 5.1 per cent to 103p....
...And there is no single recipe: all successful models so far, in Denmark, the Netherlands, [and] Scandinavia have been unique.”...
...The broker added returns from life insurance operations might be restrained by Aviva’s focus on the UK, where the company has been relatively cautious on the near-term outlook, and the Netherlands where...
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