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Coal under increasing financial pressure: activists
AFP, Published on 02/12/2020
» PARIS - The coal industry is under increasing financial pressure, a coalition of environmental groups said Wednesday, but insurers are not ditching the polluting fuel fast enough to meet climate targets they warned.
Davos financiers pump $1.4tn into fossil fuels: Greenpeace
AFP, Published on 21/01/2020
» PARIS: Some of the world's biggest banks, insurers and pension funds have collectively invested $1.4 trillion in fossil fuel companies since the Paris climate deal, Greenpeace said Tuesday at the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
'Lehman Weekend': the biggest bankruptcy in American history
AFP, Published on 14/09/2018
» WASHINGTON - It was "Lehman Weekend." The moment in September 2008 when the 150-year-old investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, precipitating the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s.
Failure of justice in 2008 crash eroded public trust: inquiry chief
AFP, Published on 09/09/2018
» WASHINGTON - Phil Angelides pointed the finger at some of the world's most powerful men -- leaders of an industry that crashed the global economy and drove untold millions into despair, unleashing the raw emotions now dominating American politics.
'Lehman Weekend': the biggest bankruptcy in American history
AFP, Published on 02/09/2018
» WASHINGTON - It was "Lehman Weekend." The moment in September 2008 when the 150-year-old investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, precipitating the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s.