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...“There are too many unknown events that investors want to hedge for,” she said, citing elections, risks of conflict escalation or the return of a banking crisis....
...Manufacturing obstacles Even if technology and scale-up challenges can be overcome, it is a huge unknown whether solid-state batteries can bring production costs down in time to accelerate the global rollout...
...Reading the article about deep-sea mining by Kenza Bryan and Harry Dempsey (Report, April 26), I am unsure what is more striking....
...A heart attack, a handwritten note and 1,000 shipping containers full of unknown material — the details of one of London’s biggest commodity fraud cases read like a thriller....
...While the process of allocating subsidies is reasonably straightforward for established carmakers, ministers are “very risk averse” when dealing with “unknown” entities, according to one person who has worked...
...But it added that the build-up of inventories by lithium refineries and battery manufacturers was an unknown factor that could drive prices lower more quickly than expected....
...Annual accounts showed that Russia’s national tanker company had $2.4bn of net debt at the end of last year, but it is unknown how much of this is owed to international creditors and whether it could use...
...Arthur Richier, lead freight analyst at Vortexa, said it was a “big unknown” if the ships would actually discharge cargo in Europe, but added that he expected more diversions....
...Millions of barrels of Russian oil are floating on ships with the vessels’ destinations set as “unknown”, suggesting cargoes could be struggling to find a buyers....
...The whereabouts of the boss of China’s influential tech-focused investment bank remain unknown after his disappearance forced the company to issue a statement via the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday...
...The exact size of the cargo salvage and excess inventory market is unknown, but these groups are handling thousands of goods that either need destroying or reselling as demand for their services rises....
...It is also still unknown how many boosters will be needed on what frequency to keep protection sufficiently high as new virus variants emerge. “Every quarter capacity steeply ramps up....
...“The unknown has now made its way back to the forefront,” he said. “We are set up for a choppy summer.”...
...Until Nigeria creates a record of mining achievements, banks and investors will hesitate to sink money into its relatively unknown mineral sector....
...Harry Dempsey...
...In Donald Rumsfeld’s terminology, Carter is a known unknown. Carter “is the most important man in Washington nobody has heard of”, as Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, put it....
...The enterprise value after operating leases is €281m, before unknown pension deficits. Even the ever-confident Mr O’Leary accepted the odds of success were still carefully balanced, however....
...Speak specialises in Jack Dempsey, the former world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926....
...But for a new owner without such recognition, it can be an almost insurmountable climb to get a corporation to hand over millions to an unknown quantity....
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