In a setback for environmental groups, California lawmakers early Saturday morning ended the 2019 legislative session without passing two bills that would have been the most ambitious effort in the nation to reduce the massive amounts of plastic pollution …
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European policy makers took their spat over quantitative easing public, after the ECB unveiled stimulus for the ever-flagging euro-area economy.
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Based on the terrible public market performance of Uber and Lyft, you might think it’s been a bad year for tech IPO investors. But if you treat every offering equally, IPOs have been a lucrative bet. Looking at a basket of 13 venture-backed tech IPOs this year, …
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(Reuters) – A consortium of infrastructure funds led by Dalmore is in advanced talks to buy a stake in Britain’s nuclear power stations from EDF Energy (EDF.PA) and Centrica Plc (CNA.L) for about 1.2 billion pounds ($1.50 billion), Sky News reported on …
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Ukraine is set to agree on a new loan of about $5 billion from the International Monetary Fund, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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