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...“I think you can take something that’s quite moody, and make it quite elegant without it being depressing.”...
...Moody’s says credit rating upgrades outnumbered downgrades by a factor of seven last year for US oil and gas producers....
...He’s not getting any, though,” said Mark Zandi, an economist at Moody’s Analytics who has advised Republican and Democratic politicians....
...Beside us lies a varsity jacket with the appliquéd initials of his old high school in Virginia. The pieces seem so quintessential to the mythology of Pharrell Williams that I wonder if he’ll miss them....
...Louisiana, Florida and West Virginia have some of the worst flood prospects in the contiguous US, the First Street Foundation data show....
...It also contributed to Democratic setbacks in state and local elections earlier this month, including the loss of the Virginia governor’s race....
...(FT) From PE to politics Saving Virginia from economic ruin may have not been the only motivation behind ex-Carlyle boss Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial run....
...Mr Biden’s election platform called for $3.9tn in spending over his first term, according to a Moody’s Analytics estimate of the price tag....
...Elements of the plan could also be resisted by centrist Democrats such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia....
...But it was not until the summer of 2017, when Mr Trump blamed both sides for deadly clashes at a far-right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that executives abandoned his business panels....
...The financial picture is darkening in coal districts of Kentucky, West Virginia and Wyoming....
...Most strikingly, the University of Virginia even had to go as far as to create a $2m fund to support workers laid off by the company....
...“A sharp reduction in export prices shines light on poor underlying demand fundamentals for thermal coal in the domestic market,” said Ben Nelson, analyst at Moody’s....
...The oil major on Tuesday wrote down more than $10bn of assets, more than half from gas resources in the Appalachian states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio....
...a couple of singles and has now followed up with this album, produced by Sebastian Notini, the Swede who also refashioned Oumou Sangaré’s sound for Mogoya and has also worked with Luna’s fellow Bahian Virginia...
...In August, two great friends visited from Virginia and we spent a joyful week in a Cotswolds tornado of garden tours, pub lunches and trinket hunts....
...“Not to be disparaging, but I care more about what our risk analysts think about a company than what S&P and Moody’s think,” Tom Murphy, a veteran bond fund manager at Columbia Threadneedle, told the FT’...
...In Fredericksburg, Virginia, German retailers are trying to beat Walmart at its own game....
...Its debt was downgraded by Moody’s, the rating agency. And it is battling to increase output of its new Model 3 car, with chief executive Elon Musk taking direct control of production....
...Moody’s recently said covenant quality is at an all-time low at the same time credit spreads have fallen to lows....
...Moody’s, the rating agency, said in a report last week that in the Great Plains states east of the Rocky Mountains, wind power costs about $20 per MWh, compared with about $30 per MWh for just the running...
...The flag-waver was escorted from the Virginia venue, but allowed to stay in Macon....
...Peabody’s North Antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming alone produces more coal than the whole of West Virginia....
...Moody’s, the rating agency, last year downgraded $1.1bn of the concession’s company’s debt because of the “increased prospects” that it would default on its borrowings....
...Writing in Elle magazine, Virginia Vitzhum praises Díaz’s work but argues that his “constant dismissal of women as sets of culo-and-titties slams a door in my face”....
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