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Energy sector
US utilities defend gas stoves to head off electrification threat
...The American Public Gas Association, which represents municipal-owned utilities, said the bills “prevent the regulatory assaults on gas-cooking products that would significantly impact the direct use of...
July 6, 2023
News in-depthNikkei Asia
South-east Asia braced for fires and drought brought on by El Niño
...Nikkei Inc....
June 28, 2023
Environment
Asia plastic is choking the world’s oceans Premium content
...According to the National Environment Agency of Singapore, the recycling rate for plastics in 2017 was just 6 per cent out of 763,400 tonnes of plastic waste disposed....
August 5, 2018
News in-depthThe Big Read
New oil order: Leaner times for Canada’s ‘Fort McMoney’
...They “are on the opposite end of the price-sensitivity spectrum” from shale, the International Energy Agency says....
June 16, 2015
News in-depthThe Big Read
A world without water
...the next 25 years, according to the International Energy Agency....
July 14, 2014
beyondbricsMarkets
Zambian bonds: going sub-sovereign
...Announcements of new bond issues have been coming thick and fast out of Zambia this year, and the government’s Road Development Agency is the latest to get in on the act....
January 18, 2013
World
US markets plan to reopen after storm
...Supervisors urged bankers to monitor their holdings of municipal debt affected by the storm....
October 30, 2012
FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack
How NOT to argue that derivatives are the devil’s spawn
...Behind all of this is — you guessed it — derivatives. Bankers have embedded interest-rate swaps in many long-term municipal bonds....
June 13, 2012
Global Economy
Moody’s places US rating on review
...The rating agency said it will determine over the next several weeks the “vulnerability” of other triple A rated municipal credits to the credit of the US government....
July 14, 2011
Property sector
Demands to buy back loans ‘tip of iceberg’
...“There are no clear sets of regulations,” said Mr Frederico. “Why would someone commit capital if tomorrow a rating agency [can downgrade]?”...
December 1, 2010
US downturn
Muni bond sector thawing with a little help from BAB
...At the same time, the reliability of the same credit rating agencies that assured investors of the soundness of mortgage-backed and subprime securities has come into question regarding extant municipal ratings...
November 15, 2009
Insurance
NY insurance regulator steps down
...and loan associations....
May 28, 2009
Lehman Brothers collapse
Yields fly high and fox market watchers
...Markets Association [Sifma] Municipal Swap Index....
October 12, 2008
World
Waste management: A problem that comes in heaps
...In the US, the amount of municipal solid waste has multiplied almost three-fold from 80m tonnes in 1960 to 230m tonnes in 2007. The mess we make is extraordinary....
December 15, 2008
Capital markets
Industry ratings for municipal bonds
...National Association of Insurance Commissioners....
June 2, 2008
News in-depthGlobal Economy
Closing doors
...“We’d be interfering in a very prescriptive way in the management and calling on expertise that we don’t really have,” says Peter Montagnon, head of investment affairs at the Association of British Insurers...
October 29, 2008
FT AlphavilleStacy-Marie Ishmael
A contrarian fable: Three Little Pigs (CFA version)
...characteristics for the additional yield; Chinese shares (for their future growth potential); and a basket of US Municipal and Financial Guaranty insurance companies whose underwriting record the first...
May 21, 2008
Capital markets
Shock widening in Fannie and Freddie debt
...For the first time, securities dealers may borrow from the Fed on much the same terms as banks and in exchange for a broader range of collateral including investment-grade corporate securities, municipal...
March 17, 2008
US equities
Ambac sparks rebound on Wall Street
...The Financial Times said a group of banks would provide capital as part of a plan to split Ambac’s operations, separating municipal bond insurance activities from the riskier business of insuring structured...
February 22, 2008
News in-depthCapital markets
Markets assess the costs of a monoline meltdown
...While the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the main trade body, vehemently insists this risk should be offset by the fact that most trades are backed by collateral, levels of investor unease...
February 20, 2008
Global Economy
Default rates ‘to surge from 26-year low’
...The agency said it expected that last month would mark the nadir of the default cycle, and predicted global default rates would jump more than fivefold to hit 4.8 per cent by the end of 2008, and hit the...
January 9, 2008
US equities
Florida moves to stop run on fund
...This week, Maine’s state treasurer accused Merrill Lynch and ratings agencies of leading it into a failed commercial paper investment....
November 30, 2007
News in-depthLondon fights for its future
Regulators rush to keep up with mergers
...Anthony Belchambers, chief executive of the UK-based Futures and Options Association, says: “It looks as if we have a wave of regulatory uncertainty that must be resolved.”...
July 12, 2006
News in-depthUS states of emergency
A new mix in the melting pot
...The town’s Latino pulse is evident in the multiplicity of tiny shops selling tortillas and plantains and agencies helping migrants wire money to their families back home....
August 29, 2005

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