South Korea’s biggest EV battery maker is betting on rapid growth in the US following a package of climate-friendly tax breaks to move closer to its biggest Chinese rival as competition intensifies in the sector. The North American market for electric vehicle batteries will be the fastest growing in the world this year, said Robert … Read more
Is it possible to accurately predict where the wind will blow from? How about where it will blow in 30 years? The First Street Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to identify and communicate climate change risks, says it has developed a model to estimate “hyperlocal climate wind risk” in the US now and in … Read more
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Bayer AG on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter 2022 net profit that missed consensus expectations despite higher sales, saying it expects 2023 profit to be lower than a year earlier as inflation is still high. The German agricultural and pharmaceutical company BAYN, -3.70% registered a net profit of 611 million euros (648.3 million dollars) for the last … Read more
The government orders that restricted access to non-essential businesses in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were not “quarantines” that require an insurance company to reimburse policyholders who did not fully use their ski passes. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. The Board of Appeals upheld the decision of the US … Read more
The world’s largest restaurant companies are primarily chain operations with a significant international presence. Many have positioned themselves to weather economic cycles by maintaining steady and profitable growth over the long term, and some have companies that control a variety of subsidiary chains. These are the 10 largest restaurant companies by revenue as of December … Read more
A federal judge in New Orleans again summoned the owners of McClenny Moseley & Associates to his courtroom, this time to decide whether to sanction the law firm — and if so, how much — for misrepresenting insurers. Insurance attorney Matthew Monson suggested that the Houston-based law firm should pay $13,938,000, which is the exact … Read more
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited reports fiscal year results
Yomagic, by second, that you are a guest at the Mount Washington Hotel in the ski resort of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. You have arrived to enjoy neither the slopes nor the hotel’s 18-hole golf course. Instead, you’re here for the kind of conference that reinvented the international financial system at the end of World … Read more
ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Rescuers with backhoes and bulldozers dug through tons of earth and rubble on Thursday for 48 people missing after a landslide buried a quarry in northern China. State broadcaster CCTV said the confirmed death toll from the disaster had risen to five. Conditions in the area remain dangerous and searches … Read more