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...As ratings drop to C and D, the risk of default rises accordingly Developing nations with bad borrowing records may fall into these buckets....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...It peaked in 2022 with 599 shows — meaning you’d have to watch 1.6 series a day to see all of them....
...And then I think over a period of time I'd like to think we'll excel in those areas....
...(FT) Meet me in the lobby How the Trump International Hotel became the centre of a new kind of DC swamp, where international dignitaries mingle with B-list Fox television personalities and administration...
...As noted by the International Energy Agency, non-Opec supply will accelerate from 1.9m barrels a day to 2.3m b/d next year. The other side of the coin is weaker growth sapping demand....
...US output has reached record levels above 10m barrels a day and is now expected to reach 11m b/d by the end of this year....
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...Not every US exploration and production company is expecting short-term growth, but enough are predicting expansion to support the EIA’s forecast that US oil output will hit a record above 10m b/d next year...
...Tom Brady, Bob Kraft and Coach B are total winners. Wow!”...
...With the auction house “on the verge of bankruptcy” in 1962, perhaps Chance saw little hope for the company itself....
...Apple’s latest transparency report, covering the first six months of 2015, records that the company received 3,824 requests for device information from US law enforcement authorities....
...The Verge says it has a neat optional stand and will be available in Japan first in February, costing around $800. Click on the image above for a video on all its possibilities....
...But on Thursday, a weekly report from the US energy department showed domestic gasoline, or petrol, consumption was a robust 9.1m barrels per day, up nearly 600,000 b/d from a week before....
...From a year-on-year figure of 2.2m b/d at the start of 2015, it has slowed to 300,000 b/d in November, according to the International Energy Agency....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...The International Energy Agency reckons the oil market is facing a third successive year when supply will exceed demand by 1.0m b/d, an imbalance that will place enormous strain on the ability of the oil...
...US exports of processed condensate reached 126,000 b/d in June, from zero a year before, according to Clipper Data....
...d as it pushes to expand its share of the global market....
...“In the first five months of 2014, 3.8m b/d has been offline compared to an annual average of 850,000 b/d between 2008 and 2010,” she says....
...The report showed non-Opec supplies had increased month-on-month by 740 kb/d in October, to 55.53m b/d, as strong gains in the North Sea, North America, Russia and Ghana pushed global output to a record...
...Output surpassed 7m b/d in both November and December. Net US crude imports meanwhile fell by 437,000 b/d last year to 8.5m b/d, the lowest level in 15 years....
...This follows news that S&P had cut Spain’s credit rating to triple-B minus from triple-B plus, leaving the country on the verge of losing its investment grade status....
...double their 2011 overseas output of just over 1.5m b/d and equivalent to Kuwait’s annual output....
...IHS Cera, a research group, projects that oil production will rise another 3m b/d and reach a new high by 2020....
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