The students are part of the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign (HPDC), a student group pushing for Harvard's divestment from the prison industry.
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Related: Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Scores Two New Victories But Amanda Harvey-Sanchez, divestment coordinator at UofT 350, said in interview that these rejections disconnected from large numbers of people from the broader university community who have been calling for outright divestment.
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Simultaneously, Prakash had begun working with the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network, an organization fighting for divestment on the national level, where she met Blazevic.
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This is according to a recently-published divestment report from Arabella Advisors, which revealed an increase in divestment from the 2016 figure of $5.2 trillion.
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Freeport wants an initial divestment, as soon as possible, through an initial public offering, with full divestment done in stages over several years, the letter said.
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But the package is getting pushback because it includes a bill that seeks to counter the "Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions" movement by opposing boycotts or divestment from Israel.
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Democrats were coming under fire over the bill because it includes a provision to counter the "boycott, divestment, sanctions" (BDS) movement by opposing boycotts or divestment from Israel.
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Several Democrats indicated they would oppose the measure because of a provision that seeks to counter the "Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions" movement by opposing boycotts or divestment from Israel.
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The first have already claimed the church's resolution as another victory in their campaign, the latter fail to see how one divestment is much different from another divestment.
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The divestment program is seen as crucial to the company's growth in the future, and Petrobras said in a statement that divestment initiatives started before May of this year should not be affected.
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BRAZIL SUPREME COURT RULING ON PETROBRAS DIVESTMENT POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY
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So fossil fuel divestment can be a powerful advocacy tool?
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What they're saying: Fossil fuel divestment advocates cheered the move.
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And with divestment, a little can go a long way.
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The momentum for divestment within the Church grows every day.
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Ltd upon divestment Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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The divestment is capital neutral for Alpha Bank, it said.
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What is the role of divestment in all of this?
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The divestment announcement comes less than a month after Gov.
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The divestment movement has doubled in size in 15 months.
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Fletcher had announced the divestment plan in April this year.
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Petrobras' legal manager for acquisitions and divestment, Claudia Zacour, told the committee the sale of Petrobras Argentina was part of the Brazilian oil company's divestment plan to reduce debt and focus on core activities.
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It aims to have concluded the divestment process by Jan. 15.
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Goldman Sachs is advising Pfizer on the divestment, the sources said.
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Entertainment, are apparently not included in the DOJ's requests for divestment.
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"Divestment is a people-powered intervention in the market," Fielder said.
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The sale of Applied Underwriters represents a rare divestment by Buffett.
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The potential divestment marks somewhat of an about-face for Biogen.
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Under the investors' plan, divestment would only be a last resort.
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No matter how you slice it, divestment is a flawed strategy.
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How was their protest related to the fossil fuel divestment movement?
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He did not say how long the divestment plan would take.
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At Michigan, SAFE submitted a dozen divestment proposals in 15 years.
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"The main issue that hasn't been resolved yet is divestment," Gatot said.
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And in Arizona, this divestment project has been decades in the making.
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The divestment will nonetheless have only a limited impact on Singtel's EBITDA.
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The South African Divestment efforts against apartheid South Africa in the 80s?
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NBG was advised by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs on the divestment.
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CBA had initially expected final completion of the full divestment in 2018.
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The government will give its opinion about that broader divestment in October.
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Divestment needs to expand to banks, insurance companies, and asset management companies.
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StanChart did not elaborate on its divestment plans in the earnings statement.
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The bigger issue is the systemic divestment of women in hip-hop.
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He vocally opposes the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) anti-Israel boycott movement.
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N on Wednesday, subject to the divestment of some of Alere's operations.
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Divestment proponents say their goal is not necessarily to bankrupt energy companies.
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USA * SAYS DIVESTMENT FOR TOTAL CONSIDERATION OF $2.5 MILLION Source text - bit.
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The two lawmakers have backed the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
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SO WHAT WE ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING $200 BILLION OF DIVESTMENT, ASSET VALUE.
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It stressed the importance of its divestment plans to reduce its indebtedness.
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But Jenny Marienau, the manager of the US divestment campaign at 350.
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"Divestment isn't going to shrink the fossil-fuel industry," Mr. Ip adds.
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This moment requires urgency, action, investment, and divestment from our current system.
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More delays stemming from litigation, divestment campaigns, and civil disobedience are likely.
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Oil majors like Shell have publicly labeled divestment as a material risk.
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It does so by expanding conflict of interest laws and divestment requirements.
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A divestment campaign will not typically damage a company's access to capital.
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"While News Corp Australia recognises that divestment is a very serious step ... divestment is necessary in the case of Google, due to the unparalleled power that it currently exerts over news publishers and advertisers alike," the petition reportedly reads.
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Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.
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The international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement dismissed the tactic as "crude propaganda".
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Saudi Arabia threatened massive divestment from the United States if the effort succeeded.
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Earnings growth and divestment are expected to generate additional surplus capital, it said.
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"They (IndiGo) have expressed an interest in the strategic divestment process," he said.
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The bank declined to say on Friday what form the divestment might take.
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"I don't think there is a clear cut, formalised divestment process," Eusman said.
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It hired UBS earlier this year on the potential divestment of the group.
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The deal is part of Petrobras' divestment program, which seeks to reduce indebtedness.
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Sime Darby will also have a smaller scale and lower diversification post-divestment.
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Vestberg also oversaw the divestment of Ericsson's stake in handset maker Sony Ericsson.
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That divestment continued, moving more of the cost of higher education onto students.
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A sale of the MPLX assets could help compensate for that abandoned divestment.
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That marked the first net divestment position since the end of March, 2009.
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Sweden's Lundin Petroleum was also at risk of divestment, the company has said.
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"In fact the entire divestment in 2018-2019 was all oil," Paulides said.
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The company had previously said it aims to conduct the divestment in October.
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The ministry said Shakir actively supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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If divestment does good, it's through its publicity effects, not its monetary ones.
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Black Sleep requires total divestment from what is largely expected of a Negro*.
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But this is a very odd way to divest of stock—and it's especially odd given that Ross's means of "divestment" thus far has largely been to move his holdings into a trust, which is not really divestment at all.
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Australia said on Thursday it would not oppose the deal following the divestment commitment.
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Imperial said "significant progress" had been made with a number of other divestment opportunities.
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In fact, even The World Bank supports the financial argument for fossil fuel divestment.
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NBG was advised by advised on the divestment by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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Proceeds from the divestment were used to repay EUR55m in loans in July 2016.
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Reuters first reported last November that a divestment of the business was under consideration.
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Can you give us clarity on when the Freeport divestment is going to happen?
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Pensioners are right to be wary of the impact of divestment on their returns.
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Cutting pipeline cashflow: Divestment means having an economy with less reliance on fossil fuel.
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So far, institutions worth over $5 trillion have committed to some form of divestment.
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OK: This is also an act to challenge BDS[, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement].
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The nonstop divestment campaigning of recent years has built enormous political pressure for change.
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The original draft of the bill had called for full divestment within five years.
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What impact divestment campaigns have on the share prices of fossil fuels is unclear.
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Watch this three-minute video from The Guardian about the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I was there to promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement — all this untrue.
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And the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) tactic applies only to Jewish Israelis, not Muslims.
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In 0003, Columbia University announced divestment from producers of coal burned to generate electricity.
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Calls for fossil-fuel divestment linked to climate-change concerns have also raised awareness.
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In September, hundreds of students and other participants marched through Yale calling for divestment.
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Divestment will not be limited to those companies, however, UC spokesman Stett Holbrook said.
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Shell has also sold onshore assets in the country and has discussed further divestment.
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In doing so, we will provide a welcome alternative to the campus divestment movement.
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The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement recently urged FIFA to do the same.
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GE is considering divestment of its aircraft leasing, transportation and healthcare information technology businesses.
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If you're interested in all this divestment business, click here to learn more on one of the fastest-growing divestment campaigns in history, and check-out this story from NPR on how local activists made a difference in these major U.S. cities.
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The Eurovision boycott is part of the larger Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement—a movement inspired by South African anti-apartheid activism—which calls for the boycott of Israeli goods and divestment from Israeli institutions that are complicit in Palestinian human rights violations.
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It was not immediately clear whether the divestment would be subject to a CFIUS review.
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MPM has a 40% share in MPM Finance after the divestment, while JACCS owns 60%.
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They urge the museum to align itself with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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The fossil fuel divestment movement wants to try to make that not happen. 212. Huh?
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Even Mark Moody-Stuart, the ex-chairman of Shell said divestment was the "rational option".
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The divestment agreement also raises questions over the future role of Rio Tinto at Grasberg.
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The companies are so big that divestment has next to no financial impact on them.
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Israel says that Shakir, a U.S. citizen, supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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The oil and gas company is currently implementing a previously announced $20 billion divestment program.
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" They also said a divestment of an online grocery operation "is not necessary or proportionate.
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I came back to my school and helped kick-start a fossil fuel divestment campaign.
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The divestment will boost fiscal third-quarter earnings by around 9 million euros, it said.
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Bill McKibben, a leader of the divestment movement and co-founder of the group 350.
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The European Commission cleared the deal in January, subject to the divestment of 12 plants.
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Ross said that his divestment from Navigator Holdings was pre-planned, making the timing coincidental.
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Divestment or a blind trust are not the only ways to deal with the issue.
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Three of those funds said explicitly that divestment was an option if talks were unsatisfactory.
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This approach differs from strategies of disengagement, like divestment, but can make a big difference.
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The proposed transaction - debt restructuring and divestment - is conditional upon receipt of all relevant approvals.
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And NetEase's remaining e-commerce operations, a private-label brand, looks ripe for divestment too.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu credited the divestment campaign as a key tactic in bringing down apartheid.
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Both lawsuits and the global divestment movement can hit Big Oil where it hurts most.
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Accordingly, we are confident the board members will seriously consider our collective call for divestment.
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It is no University of California, either, where fossil-fuel divestment is already in progress.
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Myers said his divestment from his family business would follow federal law and ethics guidelines.
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Foreigners sold C$1.83 billion in money market paper, the third divestment in four months.
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Separating the marine unit from the division could fuel hopes for a sale or divestment.
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Same goes for the city, where Comptroller Scott Stringer really calls the shots on divestment.
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VX is reviewing its divestment plan in India after talks with Birla Corporation Limited (BCL)(BRLC.
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But it was clear that the issue of divestment from Israeli companies remains contentious among Methodists.
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Gorsky said Wednesday the company is eyeing growth after a period of divestment in the unit.
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Some consolidation and subsequent divestment are in play in the worlds of imaging and voice recognition.
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Executives at Petrobras also pledged on Wednesday to keep forging ahead with an ambitious divestment program.
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This week, a number of U.S. corporations are announcing their divestment from the National Rifle Association.
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"Exxon is actively divesting in Nigeria," one source who was briefed on the divestment plans said.
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The second principle is fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at delegitimizing Israel.
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On Friday, Reuters reported Patterson-UTI Energy was considering the divestment of its pressure pumping business.
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He added, however, that such a divestment was not on the agenda in the short-term.
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The oil company is undergoing an ambitious divestment program meant to reduce its high debt levels.
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Young Jewish voices are prominent in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which seeks to isolate Israel.
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It is the first time the equity-focused investor has made a net divestment since 2009.
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Residents sold C$3.05 billion worth of U.S. government bonds, the third consecutive month of divestment.
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Andrew Cuomo and the City's Mayor Bill De Blasio have painted themselves into the divestment corner.
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The refinery stake sale will be part of a $21 billion Petrobras divestment program through 2018.
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The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement purports to seek freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians.
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He was soon working for the American Committee on Africa and the Africa Fund, promoting divestment.
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While I share Ms. Lockwood's concerns about climate change, divestment is little more than financial theater.
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To date, 532 faculty members have signed a petition in favor of divestment from fossil fuels.
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The sell-off would be a marked acceleration of the U.S. oil major's previous divestment plans.
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He added that a decision on the assets divestment is expected to be taken this autumn.
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Seperately, ABB said it has also completed the divestment of two Shanghai-based electrification joint ventures.
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A campaign official attributed the spending to Mr. Parscale's relocation and divestment from businesses in Texas.
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The divestment vote in November drew a crowd too large for the usual student-government venue.
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Michigan's administration quickly issued a statement that it would not appoint a committee to investigate divestment.
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If he hopes to enjoy them again, he must contest their divestment in the public realm.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has described the divestment movement as a campaign to destroy Israel.
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Analysts had been expecting hefty dividends following Kesko's 485 million euro divestment of real estate last year.
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The divestment movement stands out just for the sheer number of points they've put on the board.
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That's why the Global Divestment Mobilization week is focusing on encouraging bigger organizations to divest their funds.
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A source has said that the supervisory board could decide on a divestment at its forthcoming meeting.
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The movement for university divestment has been a great rallying cry and organizing tool for climate activism.
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Macquarie Bank analysts in a note said divestment of Fayetteville was the most likely course of action.
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But there's a trend of wealthy investors selling their shares in climate-harming industries, known as divestment.
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The divestment shrunk Conoco's reserves by nearly 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent, denting future growth potential.
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We expect Baidu to redeploy some savings from the Baidu Food Delivery divestment to fund AI initiatives.
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Some protesters have turned their focus to divestment campaigns targeting banks with a stake in the pipeline.
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Around half of Britain's foreign direct investment comes from the EU. Yet dramatic divestment may not loom.
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Both Tlaib and Omar have expressed support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.
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The Global Catholic Climate Movement called it the biggest collective announcement of divestment by Catholic organizations ever.
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Netanyahu's main complaint is that both women support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
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The potential Norwegian divestment of oil is not expected to happen until late 2018 at the soonest.
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CEZ is also aiming to unload assets in Poland and Turkey as part of its divestment strategy.
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A bill passed in the lower house of Parliament was a victory for the global divestment movement.
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For the quarter Exxon said it earned $5.69 billion, boosted by $3.7 billion from its Norway divestment.
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Its management is conducting an aggressive divestment program aimed to lower debt and raise cash for investments.
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OMAR BARGHOUTI, ACRE, ISRAEL The writer is a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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The divestment push adds to the mounting financial, legal and political pressure on the fossil fuels industry.
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Some of those divestment promises have been made by public institutions, including state pension funds in California.
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Despite the divestment campaign by New York and London, fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon.
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An earlier version of this article misidentified a congressman critical of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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Failure to do so could result in prosecution, fines and potentially divestment of the asset, Morrison said.
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These slippery anti-oil salesmen are busy telling their electorate that the city coffers can handle divestment.
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There was no B.D.S. movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions), and campus hostility toward Israel barely existed. Why?
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Earlier this month, the hospital operator completed divestment of three of its Houston-based hospitals to HCA Holdings.
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"As a result, LafargeHolcim will now launch a new divestment process for Lafarge India," it said without elaborating.
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A spokesman for GSK declined to comment on the divestment plans, which were first reported by Sky News.
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Divestment is the opposite of investment – it's the removal of your investment capital from stocks, bond or funds.
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Canadians sold a net C$4.59 billion of international securities in November, the first divestment in four months.
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The acquisition is contingent upon the successful divestment and separation of KLX's Energy Services Group business, KLX said.
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He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign which targets Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
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The asset management unit has been touted as a potential divestment target at various times in the past.
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Congress had seen other public land divestment bills before, but none had been pulled as quickly as Chaffetz's.
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Reuters last month reported that it was preparing a potential $2 billion divestment of the Swiss-based business.
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Shell is undergoing a $30 billion asset divestment program and expects to sell $6-8 billion this year.
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Its biggest divestment has been the sale of its profitable metal trading business for $466 million last year.
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We expect the divestment to bolster the bank's resilience to downturns, but it will not affect its ratings.
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Still, the fossil fuel divestment campaign "has forced the question of what is a profitable company", Lubber said.
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R.B.S. said on Thursday that it was exploring "alternative means to achieve separation and divestment" of the business.
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The divestment to Ardagh includes 12 plants in Europe, eight in the United States and two in Brazil.
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She has been sharply critical of Israeli policies toward Palestinians and backs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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But the arrangement falls short of the blind trust or complete divestment many ethics experts have called for.
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The Samsun sale follows the divestment of fuel retailer Petrol Ofisi to Vitol Investment Partnership a year ago.
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Bill Maher criticized the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it a "bills---" purity test for Democrats.
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She works throughout the Southern US on issues related to Palestine, including the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Suncor spokeswoman Sneh Seetal said selling the stations is not part of the company's current asset divestment plan.
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That math kicked off a widespread campaign of divestment from fossil fuel stocks by universities, churches, and foundations.
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Following student votes on divestment on several campuses, swastikas have been painted on the doors of Jewish fraternities.
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This is exactly how divestment becomes effective as a movement, said CEO of Genus Capital Management Wayne Wachell.
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"Even if divestment hasn't happened yet, we have seen a lot of success with our goals," Perry said.
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The only larger divestment-related loss for CalPERS was in South Africa, which cost the system $4.94 billion.
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Others think Gates is missing the larger point of divestment—to weaken the influence of fossil fuel companies.
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From a conservative Christian Zionist to an outspoken advocate of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
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Finally, anyone can support existing divestment campaigns to pressure financial institutions to end their support of immigration abuses.
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Mr. Streur rose to become the president of Burridge, where he worked on divestment drives for 17 years.
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The company's quarter was boosted by one-time events, including a $3.7 billion gain from Exxon's Norway divestment.
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Reuters last month reported that Toshiba was preparing a potential $2 billion divestment of the Swiss-based business.
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Due to the divestment, Sanoma estimates to book a non-cash capital loss of about 110 million euros.
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Due to the divestment, Sanoma estimates to book a non-cash capital loss of about 110 million euros.
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The divestment movement stands out just for the sheer number of points activists have put on the board.
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Voters knew he had these businesses coming in, and he never committed to full divestment, nor should he.
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THE STONE Opponents of the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement are involved in a dishonest branding campaign.
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Together, these cuts represent a massive divestment from research that has been traditionally funded by the federal government.
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Reuters reported earlier this month that Ahlstrom and Accent mandated Swedish bank SEB for a divestment of AR Packaging.
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Volvo said the capital gain from the divestment of shares in Deutz would be booked in the third quarter.
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Liberty Global had said on Wednesday the divestment remained on track to close in the fourth quarter of 2019.
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She also defended her vote on legislation that would penalize groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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Now, from the perspective of fund managers, divestment could make sense on both financial as well as moral grounds.
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Executives at Petrobras, as the firm is known, also pledged to keep forging ahead with an ambitious divestment program.
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"We did some simulations that shows that with the divestment movement you don't need everyone to divest," said Otto.
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Eletrobras and Cemig are going through robust divestment programs to get rid of projects they were unable to complete.
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The results come a day after Tesco announced a further divestment of its non-core U.K. assets on Tuesday.
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The rebidding was set by Brazil's audit court as a way to increase transparency in the Petrobras divestment program.
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The Soros-backed private equity firm now owns 100 percent of Axxela following Oando's divestment, Axxela said on Thursday.
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Chief Executive Officer Roberto Castello Branco took the helm of the company in January with an ambitious divestment program.
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The Washington Free Beacon on Monday said the organization rallies support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Under Indonesia's divestment proposal, the government said it has the financial capacity to take over the shares by Dec.
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The miner also rejects a government demand that its joint venture with Rio Tinto be concluded before the divestment.
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There's lots of activism, from the divestment push to lawsuits in which children and young adults are the plaintiffs.
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Most of the 18 institutional investors contacted by Reuters said they preferred engagement to divestment, at least at first.
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The divestment is part of Barrick's, the world's second largest gold producer, drive to dispose of non-core assets.
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Calpers is considering changes to its divestment policies across the board, and has not yet made any final decisions.
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Fletcher Building CEO Ross Taylor said the divestment of Formica completed the company's strategy to exit non-core businesses.
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The divestment is part of broader efforts to optimize its portfolio and better allocate capital, according to the filing.
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Vale said it will use the funds raised with the sale to cut debt, while continuing its divestment program.
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Ireland's Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill is expected to become law before the end of the year, The Guardian reported.
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Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry had previously indicated the divestment program could take longer than the initial time frame.
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He's had to change his financial disclosure forms detailing his divestment from his business empire at least 39 times.
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The divestment amount to a total of 644 million Danish crowns ($96.24 million), MP Pension said in a statement.
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Put simply, divestment is when an organization or individual sells shares of stock in a given company or sector.
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Activists have been using divestment as a political strategy for decades — as far back as apartheid-era South Africa.
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This involves reviewing tax returns, preparing financial exhibits, evaluating individual positions for divestment opportunity, and reading our annual contract.
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Tlaib and Omar have also broken the mold on Capitol Hill by supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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The divestment is expected to have a positive impact on NGB's Core Tier 1 capital ratio, the bank said.
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The European Commission said the asset divestment addressed its concerns that the deal would reduce competition in some markets.
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It's been a bad couple of months for supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
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We believe there are signs of rationalisation in its portfolio of assets through the divestment of low-margin businesses.
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AT&T officials say they are committed to CNN and will not agree to any divestment of the network.
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At the same time, endowments are facing political and governance issues, such as calls for divestment from fossil fuels.
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The company said it expects to complete the divestment of its Formica and Roof Tiles business in fiscal 2019.
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Forty student groups signed SAFE's statement of support for divestment, including nearly every major association for students of color.
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Our projections assume Singtel will use SGD1.5 billion of the proceeds from the divestment of NetLink towards deleveraging in FY18.
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ICL said its divestment proceeds led to a $768 million reduction in net debt, creating financial flexibility to support growth.
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General Electric announced a corporate shake-up and divestment strategy after posting weak profits and calls to be broken up.
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Eletrobras has a divestment program ongoing and the Brazilian government has been discussing a potential privatization through a share offering.
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The Malaysian divestment process is likely to be completed in the current quarter or early third quarter, another person said.
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Analysts were skeptical that a deal is close, noting big hurdles including taxes, divestment and the right to international arbitration.
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It said last week it was reviewing its divestment plan in India after talks with Birla Corporation Limited (BCL) (BRLC.
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And in late February, several dozen activists made the case for divestment at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting.
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While divestment policies will raise premiums for utilities like RWE, AEP and Ameren, loopholes could end up dampening the effects.
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Stora last month announced a divestment of a German magazine paper mill and a closure of a Chinese paper plant.
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The Hua Xia divestment frees up capital and boosts Deutsche Bank's capital ratio by 50 basis points to 11.6 percent.
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The government has set a divestment target of 1.05 trillion rupees for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2020.
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ET. Dow Chemical (DOW) and DuPont (DD) have received European Commission approval for their planned merger, with some divestment conditions.
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The Field Museum in Chicago first announced its divestment decision in November 2015, in response to a tweet from 350.
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It also said it plans to sell some mature oil fields in Brazil, a small addition to its divestment program.
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International ire over the treatment of Palestinians leads to calls for boycotts of Israeli goods and divestment from Israeli companies.
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Volvo said the initiation of a divestment process was subject to the finalizing of mandatory consultations with staff representative bodies.
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Amy Schumer is the latest celebrity to add to the growing conversation about divestment from the National Football League (NFL).
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Yet on college campuses, where the movement began roughly four years ago, divestment drives appear to be meeting some resistance.
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This month, the United Methodist Church decided against divestment, despite the efforts of one of its prominent members, Mr. McKibben.
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The performance came despite a drop in sales amid the divestment of some businesses as well as lower cement volumes.
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Following the divestment, Hapoalim will be held entirely by the public, as are other Israeli banks, without a controlling shareholder.
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She supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which encourages a boycott of Israeli organizations in support of Palestinian rights.
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Chapters of J Street have reportedly supported the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Jewish state.
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Eletrobras may not be able to complete the divestment of Eletrosul's renewable energy assets this year, the same source added.
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Their strategy involves tactics like occupying legislatures, organizing marches and protests, pushing corporate sustainability and divestment, and nonviolent direct action.
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If you really want to make a difference in limiting carbon emissions, it is dialogue, not divestment, that is key.
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The deal will be the largest divestment so far in the heavily indebted oil company's $15 billion asset sale plan.
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Tonight's highlights include a White House job for a notable Trump backer and a major divestment for a Trump nominee.
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The tax projections are realistic but the divestment target looks ambitious as the government has typically struggled to achieve this.
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As part of the agreement, the school will form an advisory committee and publish annual reports on the divestment transition.
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"We have under review some $3 billion of revenues and this solar divestment will be part of it," he said.
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Trustees for the city's five pension funds would need to approve any divestment, weighing its effect on the funds' performance.
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The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel officially began in 2005 with a call from some 170 Palestinian organizations.
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DIVESTMENTS A first divestment could be OMV's 51% stake in gas pipeline operator Gas Connect Austria to hydropower specialist Verbund .
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"There could be a divestment from one struggle that isn't over yet; that would be a real mistake," Byanima predicts.
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Sometimes, the subjects were sophomoric ("censorship" of the talent show), but often they were serious (inequality, racism, South African divestment).
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According to Chatelain's account, McDonald's particularly flourished, snapping up property nationwide and setting off cycles of simultaneous investment and divestment.
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Earnings included a divestment gain of S$289 million from the sale of its stake in a Chinese marina development.
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The first is divestment -- selling the investments in fossil fuel companies that are in the city's $189 billion pension funds.
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"No decision has been made on divestment of gun stocks from our portfolios," John Cardillo, the pension's spokesman, told CNBC.
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Real divestment is not whatever BlackRock is doing, although its move is at least better than maintaining the status quo.
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In an escalated move this spring, UC students plan to demand full fossil fuel divestment from the University of California.
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Some universities, in rejecting calls for divestment, have cited their fiduciary responsibility to produce the greatest income from their endowments.
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A growing student climate movement has placed renewed focus on the Harvard and Yale divestment battles, which began in 2012.
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W.S.A.), one of the largest academic feminist organization in North America, voted to endorse the boycott, divestment and sanctions (B.
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The names of the potential buyers and the specifics of Aviva's planned divestment in Asia have not been previously reported.
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While the firm had previously announced its intention to exit Gaspetro, executives had not specified details of the divestment plan.
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While the firm had previously announced its intention to exit Gaspetro, executives had not specified details of the divestment plan.
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This will likely take the form of binding net-zero emissions targets, renewable energy deployments, divestment, and clean energy financing.
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Via Varejo was classified as an asset for potential divestment when GPA announced its intention to sell the controlling stake.
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Divestment is just one front in a recent global surge in climate change activism, much of it led by youth.
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Omar has been a longtime critic of Netanyahu's government and a supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
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The order echoes legislation with bipartisan support, currently stalled in Congress, that targets the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
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The company's sales were weakened further by the divestment of its Wesson oil business and the impact of foreign exchange.
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Susanne Hoder, a spokeswoman for United Methodist Kairos Response, a group within the church that has been aggressively advocating for divestment over the Palestinian issue, said the inclusion of the banks was important because it widened the range of Israeli businesses that are now considered vulnerable to divestment pressure over their ties to settlement construction.
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It is not yet clear whether the government plans impose on Rio the same majority divestment requirement it imposed on Freeport.
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However, the drawn-out nature of the sale has underlined what potential buyers characterize as a bureaucratic and complex divestment process.
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Its oncology business had sales of $262 million last year, putting the divestment on a respectable revenue multiple of 9.2 times.
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"The problem is in terms of capital outflows," he said, cautioning that divestment in Europe could raise risk in overseas markets.
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Monteiro said that if Petrobras delivers on the entire divestment plan, it will not need to borrow any money in 2016.
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Hundreds have endorsed the so-called B.D.S. movement, a pro-Palestinian campaign that calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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Last month, they both voted against a House resolution condemning the boycott movement against Israel, officially known as Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.
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Perhaps the most well-known was the divestment campaign that played a role in the fight against apartheid in South Africa.
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The sale of the business is the first step in the planned divestment of non-core assets, Teva said on Monday.
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In September 2015, Wilshire Associates completed a divestment analysis for CalPERS and found the value of excluding tobacco holdings through Dec.
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Divestment is also sometimes dismissed as a pretty symbolic gesture, in that it's not going to necessarily topple the oil industry.
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The sale of the Argentine assets is part a divestment plan to raise 5 billion reais ($1.30 billion) and cut debt.
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Freeport has to sell 41.64 percent of PT-FI to reach the divestment target after earlier selling a 9.36 percent share.
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Investors have cheered Petrobras' recent push to cut debt and refocus on oil exploration and production via an aggressive divestment program.
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A deal could involve the sale of the entire company or just a divestment of its healthcare division, the people said.
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Specifically, the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel presents a barrier to open dialogue and mutual learning and understanding.
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It was the fourth biggest monthly divestment from British-based investors since the Bank started tracking these flows 20163 years ago.
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"We believe in engagement rather than divestment," said Sam Sicilia, chief financial officer at the A$22 billion pension fund Hostplus.
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The Israeli Interior Ministry said Shakir actively supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and refused to extend his visa.
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That push has driven up oil prices amid concerns that a divestment from Iranian oil would reduce the world's overall supply.
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Petrobras, as the firm is better known, holds a 100% stake in the fields and announced its divestment plans in September.
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On Tuesday, Dawkins said the timeline for the B-2's retirement was "still evolving," with "no set date" for divestment.
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Petrobras is now deep into the divestment process for its TAG pipeline unit, which is expected to fetch several billion dollars.
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And makes it easier for states and localities to approve laws to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
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The fossil-fuel divestment comes amid a broader push in Europe to end financing for companies contributing to the climate crisis.
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The resolution was widely seen as a response to a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement Omar supports.
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If the past three installments have been about investment, next week we'll get to see what happens in the divestment process.
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Such a deal could reduce Freeport's divestment stake to roughly 10 percent, Adkerson said, noting the government's current 9.36 percent holding.
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Europe also saw Chinese divestment, with some $1 billion of assets sold in that time frame and another $7 billion pending.
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Years of neglect and divestment have New York State on the verge of declaring the agency in a state of emergency.
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A divestment movement that I've helped to direct has grown rapidly, with endowments and financial portfolios worth $6 trillion joining in.
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Some investments by the country's sovereign wealth fund, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, were targets of boycotts and calls for divestment.
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At the time, the Global Catholic Climate Movement called it the "largest joint announcement of divestment by Catholic organizations to date."
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This isn't a new demand from students — many groups on campus began protesting the divestment from fossil fuel companies in 2012.
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The company said it would reduce funding to various properties, including its Appalachia shale holding, and is also considering its divestment.
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He has not called for boycotting Israel, as Pence suggested, and does not support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Some of the earliest student-led campus divestment campaigns focused on getting universities to drop fossil fuel stocks from their portfolios.
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What is worse, divestment misconstrues the climate problem and distracts from the market-based solutions that can actually make a difference.
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The struggle to end apartheid took over three decades of organizing boycotts and divestment campaigns — including 15 years of former Rep.
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There can be challenges in disclosing interests in hybrid investments, as well as in the divestment of assets prompted by conflicts.
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Dillon said that was not a realistic possibility for a family-owned company and any sudden divestment would hurt Trump financially.
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At the center of the need for this action is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, a movement to delegitimize Israel.
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Divestment campaigns have suffered stunning defeats in cities and states across the country, including Vermont, Seattle, and most recently San Francisco.
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The new Conservative government plans to pass a law restricting local authorities from participating in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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The new Conservative government plans to pass a law restricting local authorities from participating in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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After the 20183 divestment resolution at Stanford, the white Jewish Agency Israel fellow at Hillel was replaced by a black one.
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"Hillel ignores us all year and then becomes our friend during pro-Palestinian events like the divestment vote," she told me.
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Participating in the more organized forms of action, such as BDS and institutional divestment campaigns, is the least we can do.
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U.S. antitrust regulators approved the deal in June, and EU regulators backed the deal earlier this month — though both attached divestment conditions.
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At the same time, Canadian investors reduced their holdings of foreign securities by C$1.9 billion, the first divestment in four months.
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For more news, click The company said it has concluded the divestment of its peptides business in Belgium, to PolyPeptide Laboratories Holding.
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Thousands joined the Standing Rock Sioux at camps to oppose the project, and others took action through regional protests and divestment campaigns.
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Other members of the Kairos group said they would push for more divestment at the church's next general convention, in Portland, Ore.
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And divestment itself is just one front in a recent global surge in climate change activism, much of it led by youth.
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Although some parts of AIG's consolidation and divestment may take time to pay off, this deal looks promising for all parties involved.
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Energy Transfer Partners who own the project are definitely part of the fossil fuel industry that this divestment campaign is targeting. 5.
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PROVINCE OF ALBERTA SAYS IT HAS HIRED CIBC TO OVERSEE DIVESTMENT OF ITS CRUDE BY RAIL PROGRAM, EXPECTS TO COMPLETE BY FALL
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Petrobras said in a statement it would follow recommendations by the TCU to improve the divestment process and make it more competitive.
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Eletrobras sees the sale as part of a broader divestment program that seeks to dispose of non-core assets and cut debt.
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We saw that with the anti-BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] legislation, which they immediately tabled as soon as the government shutdown ended.
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Analysts and the sources who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said, however, that Anglo's divestment strategy was still in place.
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A Consol spokesman said at the time that the deal "represents the final piece of our coal divestment strategy" in Central Appalachia.
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Mitchell said Tencent has slowed investment over the past 12 months while its rate of divestment has picked up in recent months.
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Shell is undergoing a $30 billion asset divestment program globally and has already pulled back from some capital commitments in western Canada.
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Edward Banfield and James Q. Wilson of Harvard advocated divestment from social welfare programs and increased surveillance and punishment of black youth.
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Freeport has also sought certainty on the concession agreement extension or changes to the contract as part of discussing the larger divestment.
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The investment level will depend on the volume of divestment by the company, the sources with knowledge of the plan told Reuters.
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European Union antitrust regulators cleared Abbott Laboratories' proposed acquisition of Alere on January, subject to the divestment of some of Alere's operations.
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The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which seeks to isolate Israel financially and culturally, includes many Jews in its ranks and as supporters.
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The GOP measure sought to add language rejecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and anti-Semitism to the Yemen measure.
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In 2018, the American Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners passed resolutions calling for divestment in fossil fuel companies.
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The IDR also factors in ORIX's opportunistic acquisition and divestment strategy, which has the potential to alter its already-complex business structure.
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Zimmerman was falsely painted as anti-Israel and as a supporter of the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS).
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The Canadian divestment comes on top of that plan, boosting the planned asset sales for the year to more than $16 billion.
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For example, the U.S. began imposing tough sanctions on Iran in 85033, when Congress passed the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions and Divestment Act.
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Socialists, by contrast, tend to oppose U.S. intervention overseas, and DSA has backed the campaign of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel.
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The divestment comes as Hero focuses on core categories of baby and toddler food, healthy snacks, natural spreads, and gluten-free products.
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The divestment by Mitel and acquisitions by Xura speak to the ongoing trend of consolidation in the world of enterprise IT services.
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First, they look for the rise of mentions of the radical flank — the actors (McKibben and 350) and their policy demand (divestment).
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A first divestment could be the sale of OMV's 51% stake in gas pipeline operator Gas Connect Austria to hydropower specialist Verbund.
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Read more " _____ • Jamie Henn in The Guardian: "Divestment is a way to break that chain of destruction, no matter that Trump does.
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She had spent the week calling for an immediate end to subsidies for fossil fuels and complete divestment from the energy sources.
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BlackRock says it wants companies to have at least 2 women directors on every board (but never threatened any consequences, like divestment).
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But much of today's movement calls for both divestment and investment, as you can see in the name of the group DivestInvest.org.
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South32 hopes to make an announcement about divestment of its manganese alloy smelters before the end of the financial year, it said.
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That's the main reason the student-led movement for fossil-fuel divestment has gotten such a cold shoulder at many large endowments.
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Divestment campaigns are a strong social signal to financial institutions that change is coming and they need to get ahead of it.
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As we have seen with South Africa, it took the strategy of full and complete divestment to bring apartheid to its knees.
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SandRidge also said it would explore strategic options, including divestment or joint venture opportunities at its North Park Basin assets in Colorado.
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Renu Kohli, a Delhi-based independent economist, said the government would now need to step up elsewhere to meet its divestment target.
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The city comptroller's office also stated that divestment will happen if it is found to be in line with "fiscal stewardship," i.e.
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According to the Suffolk Country Association of Municipal Employees (AME) a divestment policy would cost the state $2.8 billion over 20 years.
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Parente said the agreement with Total was authorized by Brazil's audit court, which suspended the oil company's divestment program earlier this month.
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The head of Shell's long-term planning team, Jeremy Bentham, recently described to Fortune an internal memo he wrote recommending the divestment.
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The divestment may involve liquidation of a joint venture that Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), operator of Grasberg, formed with Rio Tinto in 1996.
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The camp is also encouraging a campaign of local actions around the country and divestment in businesses associated with the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Losses from Africa operations narrowed to 6.10 billion rupees from 11.03 billion rupees due to divestment of units and sale of tower assets.
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Both the divestment and Buffett's investment are contingent on Occidental closing the deal and would underwrite the cash component of the driller's bid.
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The market was speculating that the government's tougher stance on tailings "could potentially prolong negotiations on divestment," Clarksons Platou analyst Jeremy Sussman said.
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Since then, activists have secured trillions of dollars in fossil fuel divestment commitments, making the campaign one of the fastest-growing movements ever.
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India's recent divestment deals have drawn little interest from either foreign or domestic fund managers due to concerns about state companies' growth prospects.
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Norway's divestment spared oil companies that are investing in clean technologies — a move that explains Big Oil's recent romance with green investment announcements.
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Analysts said the divestment could be the first of several by Voser as ABB looks to streamline its operations and ditch under-performers.
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However, the head of Spain's bank restructuring fund, the FROB, said last month that falling market values amongst banks were making divestment harder.
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"Green investing" to most people still means divestment — selling stock in companies that produce fossil fuels, especially coal, the worst for climate change.
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Goldman Sachs believes divestment has been a key driver of the 60% price drop coal stocks have suffered over the past five years.
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Petrobras has sold about 30 assets since 2012 when the divestment program began, Puttini said, noting that another 40 remain to be sold.
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It said Goldman Sachs had been mandated for both a possible sale of the radiology business and a divestment of Bayer's dermatology unit.
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"There's been a divestment in higher education, and in particular community colleges," says Martha Parham, the AACC's senior vice president of public relations.
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That roughly tracks with the progress of the national divestment movement, one that gained steam as the climate crisis came into sharper focus.
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And worse, that the divestment in coal and oil will cause mass unemployment, and lead to a catastrophic collapse of America's energy system.
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CalPERS decision to reconsider its tobacco divestment has caught the attention of health groups, industry shareholders, institutional investors and many of CalPERS' beneficiaries.
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" They estimate that the divestment will amount to $5 billion, and DeBlasio suggested that the city will reinvest in "the fuel of tomorrow.
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The divestment comes as Nuance, which has a market capitalization of roughly $5 billion, is seeking to focus on its most profitable businesses.
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In a statement, Shell said, "This sale takes Shell a step closer to its divestment target of $22.2 billion" of non-core assets.
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Freeport says the stoppage of its exports and attempts to enforce the new rules on taxes and divestment violate its contract of work.
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BHP said last month the gas-rich Fayetteville field in Arkansas was under review and that it was "considering all options, including divestment".
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Shell is in the midst of a three-year, $30 billion divestment plan following the company's purchase of BG Group earlier this year.
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But beyond our dependence on oil and gas, the size of the world's top oil companies would make mass divestment a huge challenge.
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Israel has long decried groups like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement who want to isolate Israel over policies toward the Palestinians.
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As temperatures drop nationwide in what has become a harsh winter, discussions about fossil fuel divestment and climate change continue to heat up.
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Last week, Etihad also sold its minority stake in a European regional carrier, the first divestment since launching a strategic review last year.
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Omar and Tlaib have received criticism previously for their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which condemns Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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Forte Oil said proceeds from the divestment would be used to expand its downstream fuel distribution business and to invest in storage infrastructure.
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The divestment is part of Centrica's drive to focus its oil and gas exploration and production activity to Britain, the Netherlands and Norway.
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They were both among the 16 Democrats to vote against a bill to oppose the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in July.
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"Our life divestment will further lighten our capital demands and reduce volatility," Suncorp Chief Financial Officer Steve Johnston said on a conference call.
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Lee Wasserman, a director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, which has urged divestment from fossil fuels, said coordinating around climate issues is healthy.
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It is being advised by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas on the divestment, sources familiar with the deal have said in the past.
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And what about companies working in the West Bank that succumb to the economic pressure of boycotts or divestment and move their operations?
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The art piece is meant to shed light on the ongoing divestment from low-income communities in the upstate region using bold imagery.
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HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - Vietnam's trade ministry has submitted a plan for the divestment of the government's majority stake in Sabeco SAB.
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Israel did not want to see the U.N. human rights office at the "forefront of a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanction)" movement, she said.
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The Trump administration couldn't have picked a more prized asset in the AT&T treasure chest to present as an "alternative" divestment choice.
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It is true that both Omar and Tlaib have been supportive of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at boycotting Israel.
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It was attended by activists wearing buttons calling for divestment, who applauded frequently as Mr. de Blasio, Mr. Stringer and other officials spoke.
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Ms. Sarsour's resolute position defending the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in protest against Israel's occupation of Palestine has proved problematic for some.
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Schifeling and Hoffman get at this a little bit with a comparison of divestment to Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs.
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It would provide a modest income to everyone, funded by divestment from the prison system, with a prorated additional amount for African-Americans.
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While the most recent divestment was initiated by Shell, this is not the first time Southbank Centre has eliminated a Shell-backed initiative.
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Mohamad Helmy said the company aims to complete discussions on its planned divestment of its Liberian operations by the end of this year.
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Mr. Bloomberg has also long opposed the movement of economic boycotts and sanctions against Israel known as B.D.S., or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
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In this first divestment phase, Petrobras has put up for sale refineries Abreu e Lima, Landulpho Alves, Presidente Getulio Vargas and Alberto Pasqualini.
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Some have embraced the so-called BDS movement (for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) to prod the Israeli government to address human rights violations.
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And it's also not just about whether you think divestment is a strategy that is worth pursuing, or whether it has an impact.
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Since then, divestment has expanded to the business world and institutional world, and includes large pension funds, insurers, financial institutions and religious organizations.
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"What we have wondered is if there has been an exchange of an asset for a loan rather than a divestment," Wyden asked.
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"Any assets that do not have a clear, strategic rationale for being part of AT&T should be considered for divestment," Elliott said.
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"The divestment offered by Vodafone fully addresses these concerns, allowing the Commission to clear this telecoms merger in Phase I," the Commission said.
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Since then, activists have secured trillions of dollars in fossil fuel divestment commitments, making the campaign one of the fastest-growing movements ever.
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Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and others who voted against condemning a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
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The party's pro-Palestinian flank — which, at one time, voiced support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement — went from hushed to outright silent.
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The goal of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is to eliminate any Jewish state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
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The company said the fall was due to an aggressive divestment program, through which it sold assets in the United States, China and India.
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Keppel reported a 40 percent fall in its first quarter net profit, mainly due to smaller property divestment gains versus the year-ago period.
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Excluding a capital gain from the $1 billion divestment of its fire safety and oil additives business, ICL earned $106 million in the quarter.
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In an email to CNBC, a spokesman for Rite Aid says the additional divestment is to obtain regulatory approval from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Others started to work on divestment from pipelines, raising awareness of indigenous rights, and working on broader environmental and social causes around the country.
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Israel has launched a PR campaign to counter calls for a boycott of the Eurovision contest by the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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I spent my years on Stanford University's board successfully convincing them to dump coal holdings and pushing hard for full divestment from fossil fuels.
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Some reports indicated that CNN was specifically targeted for divestment, which raised concerns given President Trump's frequent and often unhinged criticism of the network.
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In a recent investor presentation, Enerplus cited "over $1.2 billion of net divestment proceeds since 2010," which it said has helped focus the portfolio.
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When asked to elaborate on her recent divestment from the company that owns Gucci, Saint Laurent, and Balenciaga, among others, she remained tight-lipped.
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The sale of TAG, as the pipeline network is known, is expected to be the largest divestment in Petroleo Brasileiro SA asset sale program.
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The people who have knowledge of the two divestment deals declined to be named as they were not allowed to discuss them in public.
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Freeport has to sell 41.64 percent of PT-FI to reach the divestment target, adding to a 9.36 percent share the government already holds.
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But even McKibben acknowledges that divestment doesn't affect the stock prices of fossil-fuel companies — and it might not matter even if it did.
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"This announcement follows ... Petrobras' Divestment plan in September 2016 which provides for the exit of all biofuels production activities," Tereos said in a statement.
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Chakraborty is now the divestment department secretary and was overseeing a series of privatization efforts of the government, including the sale of Air India.
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The divestment plan has also been held up by an injunction obtained by the Alagoas oil workers union in Sergipe state, Sindipetro-AL/SE.
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Divestment As well as choosing what to spend money on, rich people can choose what industries to invest in -- or not to invest in.
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The GSA said in a statement it could not speak definitively about divestment until Trump's financial arrangements were completed and he had become president.
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No changes have been made to the existing divestment policy at this time and the board will continue this discussion during their April meetings.
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But forcing a small company into a divestment is new territory for CFIUS, which until recently has focused its attention on much bigger deals.
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However, the W&G divestment process has proven to be complex and costly and the deadline imposed by the EC will not be met.
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Divestment is increasingly seen as one of the stronger moves that private citizens and companies can take to support the move to clean energy.
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The divestment is a further blow for the Newport Beach-based asset manager, which suffered 125 billion euros of outflows from investors last year.
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EVEN AFTER THE DIVESTMENT, YOU STILL END UP WITH THIS AEROSPACE BEHEMOTH WITH ALL THIS PRICING POWER THAT STILL REQUIRES APPROVAL FROM YOUR CUSTOMERS.
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Orsted was counting on the divestment proceeds to help fund its massive capital expenditure plan of 200 billion Danish crowns ($30.75 billion) to 2025.
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An earlier-than-expected divestment of NetLink Trust - ahead of Infocomm Development Authority's (IDA) mandated April 2018 deadline, will also provide additional financial headroom.
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It is now rethinking that decision, after a study found that divestment had caused it to miss out on $3 billion in investment gains.
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State criticized the ruling as suggesting "anti-Israel" bias and arguing that it encourages movements such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
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They're also also under pressure to oppose the legislation because of a provision meant to counter the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (DBS) movement against Israel.
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Watchdogs have repeatedly argued that, short of divestment, such a trust is the only way Trump could truly separate himself from his private interests.
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For one, the legislation empowers states and local governments in the United States to counter the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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More recently, MPAC supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement lending its imprimatur in efforts to delegitimize and seek the political demise of Israel.
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"Finance Minister will decide who will take this divestment," he said, adding that several other ministries would be involved in the decision making process.
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It was Milwaukee's — America's — history and maintenance of racist policies, through housing discrimination, divestment of black communities, and policing, all coming to a head.
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The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement demands, among other things, that Israel withdraw from the occupied territories and remove its West Bank security wall.
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The WaPo report notes that a Harvard representative said the school "respectfully disagree[s] with divestment activists" over how climate change should be addressed.
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According to the survey, nearly two out of three respondents said they could not support divestment if doing so could lead to lower returns.
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According to a new report by a researcher at Arizona State University, divestment carries substantial "frictional costs" by way of transaction and management costs.
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AFSC is committed to anti-peace BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) tactics that have been consistently rejected and excoriated by Congress and state legislators.
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ANZ has since ramped up its divestment program, including the sale of its A$2.85 billion ($2.2 billion) insurance unit to Zurich Insurance (ZURN.
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However, some funds said the threat of divestment was not the best approach to encouraging firms to improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
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If a church's national assembly backs divestment from Israel, will it be denied state grants to operate homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Brooklyn?
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Of about a dozen that do, including Colt, Bushmaster, ArmaLite, Smith & Wesson, and Sturm, Ruger & Co, only the last two are available divestment targets.
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Budget 2900 laid down an ambitious FY225 divestment target of 725 billion rupees which is higher than last year's target of 565 billion rupees.
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The ink is barely dry on Alibaba's billion dollar investment in Southeast Asia's Lazada, but already we have news of another Rocket Internet divestment.
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On top of U of T and McGill, major universities across Canada, including UBC, Calgary and Dalhousie universities have also rejected calls for divestment.
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Impact: Pension advisor Wilshire Associates reports that the cumulative loss of the tobacco divestment policy was $3.68 billion through the end of last June.
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Freeport said it was also discussing potential divestment arrangements with Rio and Indonesian state-owned enterprise Inalum, which will lead a consortium of investors.
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One luncheon attendee grabbed a leaflet from protesters on his way to the event; others, including Robert Kraft, largely ignored the calls for divestment.
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And according to one recent study, divestment announcements may have caused at least short-term damage to the share prices of fossil fuel companies.
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"National conflicts exist all over the world," said Mr. Erdan, whose duties include combating the so-called B.D.S. movement, for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
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The claims in the flier were untrue, including the reference to the BDS movement, which seeks to punish Israel with boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
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Traders also said India's divestment target was fairly high and they would monitor it closely to see if the government can raise that money.
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It also echoes the climate divestment movement at Harvard that's pushing the school to withdraw its nearly $40 billion endowment from fossil fuel holdings.
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A committee of ministers, including India's finance minister, is in charge of the divestment process and has hired Rothschild and Ernst & Young as consultants.
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Roberto Castello Branco, the chief executive of Petrobras, has said it is important that no regional refining monopolies are created via the divestment process.
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Like Harvard, my own institution, Swarthmore College, where I am a freshman, has remained intransigent in the face of a large student divestment campaign.
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The initial share sale is part of the government's divestment process to help meet its target to raise 800 billion rupees this fiscal year.
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Christopher D. Tucker, a spokesman for the Independent Petroleum Association of America, said that the pro-divestment argument had been strengthened by industry troubles.
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And it makes it easier for states and localities to approve laws to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel.
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The group praised de León's work on expanding the state's renewable energy standard, a coal divestment campaign and encouraging the use of electric cars.
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The ACCC said it will not oppose Seven West Media's proposed acquisition of Prime Media Group, anticipating divestment of some radio networks by Seven.
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Freeport Indonesia spokesman Riza Pratama said on Monday that negotiations with the government were ongoing, including on the compulsory divestment of a majority stake.
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And while New York State's pension may be doing better financially, heeding the governor's call for divestment would undoubtedly put this performance at jeopardy.
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The Republican Jewish Coalition ran an ad highlighting that the fund gave to groups that back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions push against Israel.
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"The funds from the divestment will enable us to focus on investing and growing our core healthcare business," said Shobana Kamineni, chairperson, Apollo Hospitals.
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"What we have wondered is if there has been an exchange of an asset for a loan rather than a divestment," Mr. Wyden said.
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The controversy began with Omar's admission that she supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel's human-rights abuses in occupied Palestinian territories.
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Three of the companies Xiaomi invested in listed on China's newly-opened STAR market, and helped it generate asset-divestment gains of 551.8 million yuan.
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First quarter net revenue fell 16 percent to $7.63 billion, due to the divestment of its bottling operations, but beat analysts' estimates of $7.34 billion.
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This has been a major sticking point in the past and both sides said the timing and process for the divestment were still being discussed.
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Foreign investors accounted for about 23 percent of the bids in the NTPC offering, which the government's divestment secretary Neeraj Gupta called "a good response".
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The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, modelled on the boycott movements against apartheid, is noisier but remains small for now.
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Jennifer Davis, who came to the United States from South Africa and helped galvanize the divestment and sanctions campaign to undermine apartheid, died on Oct.
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To date, activists say they have secured more than $8 trillion in divestment commitments from more than 1,000 philanthropies, schools, pension funds, and other institutions.
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"There's a head of steam building up for the divestment of the consumer business," said Mick Cooper, an analyst at equity research firm Trinity Delta.
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The changes have sparked several lengthy disputes, including with U.S. giant Freeport Freeport-McMoRan Inc over divestment and other issues related to the new permit.
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In the first big divestment by the Swiss foods group under its new boss, Nestlé sold its confectionery business in America to Ferrero for $2.8bn.
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"If Valeo obtains clearance of the FTE transaction, the contemplated divestment could be finalized in the last quarter of 2017," Valeo added in a statement.
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A Moroccan and French national, Kadri has been CEO and president of Diversey since 2013, overseeing its divestment to a private equity fund, Solvay said.
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The South African investment firm pulled out after criticism of its involvement from pressure group Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS SA).
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While Indonesia can point to a victory that appeals to nationalist sentiment, pinning down the details on the divestment indicates a further fight with Freeport.
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Data from Statistics Canada showed foreign investors sold a net C$18.96 billion in Canadian securities in December, led by a record divestment in bonds.
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The Kcell transaction has been approved by the anti-monopoly authority in Kazakhstan and Telia said its divestment was expected to be completed in December.
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And in May 2016, the Israeli authorities barred Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian leader in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement targeting Israel, from traveling abroad.
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The sale was the divestment of the airline's last non-core investments from previous joint ventures, AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said in the statement.
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"Exploration and production companies will be phased out from the fund gradually over time," the government proposal said, without giving a timeline for the divestment.
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We have assessed in detail many times over past years options to unify the DLC structure and enhancements to our portfolio, including divestment of Petroleum.
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The museum's announcement was celebrated by climate groups calling on institutions to divest from fossil fuels, although the museum said its efforts were not divestment.
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The $60 million sale had already been announced in early December and forms part of BRF's divestment plan, aimed at reducing the company's debt levels.
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The official said the cash crunch had hit sectors like construction, agriculture and auto makers, hurting tax receipts and complicating the government's asset divestment program.
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PPC aims to sign an agreement on the sale, which has drawn fierce protest from unions, by October and to conclude the divestment by January.
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"This agreement is an important step in our 3.5 billion Swiss franc ($3.56 billion) divestment program," LafargeHolcim Chief Executive Eric Olsen said in a statement.
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Zurich Insurance has a large UK employers' liability book, which industry sources said totals about 2 billion pounds and would be a candidate for divestment.
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"Following the divestment of the paper business, Cham Paper Group will focus on its real estate business," the Swiss company said in a separate statement.
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Any partial divestment by Enel would be dependent on the utility retaining operational control over the assets in the portfolio, one of the sources said.
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But there's another parallel from the divestment movement worth considering for investors tired of trying to time an oil rebound: the fate of coal stocks.
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Calpers' decision to review its tobacco divestment has caught the attention of industry shareholders, institutional investors, health groups, and many of Calpers' beneficiaries across California.
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"Students are leading the way and shifting the narrative on climate," said Sara Blazevic, the campus strategy coordinator of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network.
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"The Attack" was mainly filmed in Israel, and led to accusations by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement that Doueiri was normalizing relations with Israel.
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Eletrobras, or Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA, is Brazil's largest power group and is going through a significant divestment process, selling off distributors throughout the country.
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As people get older, said David J. Ekerdt, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of Kansas, cognitive and physical issues hamper divestment.
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The company's board is also evaluating a public listing or divestment of its fashion segment Nelly and potential structural transactions for its digital marketplace CDON.
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Omar and fellow Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib both support the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) as a response to Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
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A Shell spokesman confirmed Lazard has been brought in under a new mandate to advise its merger and acquisition team on the company's divestment strategy.
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BREAKING: Over 2954 Yale + Harvard students, alumni, faculty stormed the field at #HarvardYale to demand DIVESTMENT from fossil fuels & cancel holdings in Puerto Rican debt.
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These types of investments, alongside many others, would be considered "direct holdings" in fossil fuels and are therefore not part of the recent "divestment" announcement.
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While the agency recommended greater scrutiny and regulatory oversight for how tech companies handle personal data and advertising services, it stopped short of suggesting divestment.
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The divestment, the largest in ConocoPhillips's history, was unexpected on Wall Street but comes as the company has come under pressure to cut its debt.
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Though many weapons divestment advocates are mostly focused on the US market, Glaze and others stress you don't have to live there to do it.
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The largest divestment so far was the agreement to sell stake in Fibria Celulose SA to rival Suzano Papel e Celulose SA, announced in March.
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ZURICH, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Lonza has concluded the divestment of its peptides business in Belgium to PolyPeptide Laboratories Holding, the Swiss group said on Wednesday.
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UBC and Simon Fraser University, both of which have vocal student divestment campaigns, have attempted to make concessions by adopting ESG goals for their investments.
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With the use of air conditioning predicted to sky rocket by the end of the century, divestment from HFCs is needed now more than ever.
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Czech utility CEZ said in August it could prioritise the sale of its assets in Romania later this year as part of a divestment programme.
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A foretaste came last month when Norway's sovereign wealth fund — the world's biggest — said that it is considering divestment from holdings in fossil fuel companies.
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The laws, largely championed by Republicans, punish companies participating in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which seeks to pressure Israel to change policies on Palestinians.
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Over in Australia, ANZ said in a Monday statement that it would not be commenting on "media speculation" about its potential divestment of Wealth Australia.
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At the end of last year, Harvard's president told the Harvard Crimson that there were more effective ways to "bring about meaningful change" than divestment.
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He will be featured next week at a news conference in New York City hosted by the fossil fuel divestment advocacy group Divest-Invest Philanthropy.
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"Peabody Energy's bankruptcy is a harbinger of the end of the fossil fuel era," said Jenny Marienau, United States divestment campaign manager with 350.org.
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This fantastical narrative obscures the real problems facing black communities, like housing and employment discrimination, divestment from education, over-policing, depressed wages and poisoned water.
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It's now estimated that Calpers lost $3 billion due to its divestment of tobacco company stocks, as companies have continued to thrive against all expectations.
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In her final appearance at a series of protests, the 82-year-old actress called for divestment from fossil fuels — and a larger protest movement.
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This decision, along with AT&T's divestment from the Bell Company, resulted in all kinds of creative phone designs, including the '80s Beocom one below.
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Two powerful student movements are joining forces with calls for divestment, focusing on two calamities that threaten their future security: mass incarceration and climate change.
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The group was born out of the college divestment movement, in which student activists pushed administrators to divest assets and holdings from fossil fuel companies.
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In recent years, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions — or B.D.S. — movement against Israel has roiled some campuses, leaving some Jewish students feeling unwelcome or attacked.
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On college campuses last year, divestment chapters started to fold at several schools including Swarthmore, New York University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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As divestment activists gear up for another year, it is important to keep in mind the ineffectiveness, cost, and ultimately counterproductive nature of this strategy.
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The full list comes from the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, a governmental department created to fight the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, known as BDS.
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To date, activists say they have secured more than $11 trillion in divestment commitments from more than 1,53 philanthropies, schools, pension funds, and other institutions.
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That could be helpful if EQT decides to pursue a divestment strategy on the Skin Health unit, which has two main businesses — medical and consumer.
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The divestment by the two well-known firms build on previous concerns by other so-called ESG managers, which consider social responsibility when buying stocks.
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When the Pfizer joint venture was unveiled, GSK said it was targeting net divestment proceeds of about 1 billion pounds over the 2019-2020 period.
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At least 34 coal divestment or restriction policy announcements have been made by financial institutions since the start of 2018, according to a report bit.
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The state plans to recover some public funds injected into the Spanish banking sector through partial divestment by Bankia, which could take place later this year.
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" BDS stands for boycott, divestment and sanctions, and is a movement that aims to end what it sees as "international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians.
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N) to act as lead bank on the divestment, which may value the asset at about 1.5 billion euros ($1.74 billion) including debt, the people said.
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The company made a "good" progress with the divestment process of Nexive and Postcon, agreeing to sell the latter business by the year-end, PostNL added.
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Total is expected to ask Barclays to lead the divestment, the sources said, adding that a final mandate has not yet been assigned but was imminent.
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The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) generates noise but no pain; foreign investment in Israel is three times higher than in 2005, when the campaign began.
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Petrobras is not planning on selling any refining assets beyond the refineries it has already publicly slated for divestment, an executive wrote to employees last week.
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OL remains focused on developing its remaining business units rather than selling more, its chief executive said following the divestment of its TV business on Tuesday.
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KKR says it has increased the workforce of its German, Austrian and Swiss companies by an average of 8% from the moment of purchase to divestment.
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Partial Divestment of MPM Finance: MPM divested 20% of its shares in MPM Finance for IDR453 billion in cash to its strategic partner, JACCS Co., Ltd.
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Leaders of the campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel, widely known as BDS, have called on artists and broadcasters to withdraw from the event.
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"There will be some divestment" in the AbbVie-Allergan combo because the companies have some overlap with gastrointestinal medicines, Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal wrote to investors.
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And a social media campaign to get individuals to pull their savings from banks financing the pipeline has so far added $79 million to divestment efforts.
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At least 34 coal divestment or restriction policy announcements have been made by financial institutions since the start of 2018, according to a report http://bit.
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Solvay previously sold its PVC businesses across the globe and completed the divestment of its acetate tow business, a raw material for cigarette filters, this year.
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Globally, more than 1,000 funds with assets in excess of $8.7 trillion have made divestment commitments, including Norways $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest.
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Nike, the world's largest sportswear maker, is exploring options for its surfwear brand Hurley International, including its possible divestment, according to people familiar with the matter.
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BHP on Wednesday denied any link between Elliott's move and prospects for Fayetteville including divestment, and said the move was instead part of an ongoing review.
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The divestment of LDC's profitable metal trading unit has put the onus on its agricultural businesses, which also include cotton, rice and coffee, to boost returns.
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The deal gives Eni much-needed cash as part of its 5 billion euro divestment plan to continue investing and paying dividends despite weak oil prices.
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Tata said its European arm would now "explore all options for portfolio restructuring, including the potential divestment of Tata Steel UK, in whole or in parts".
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As with the campus divestment protests about South African apartheid in the 1980s, much of the activism is focused on changing the national — and global — conversation.
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Globally, more than 1,000 funds with assets in excess of $8.7 trillion have made divestment commitments, including Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest.
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The first is an anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) provision that would let states penalize businesses that take part in boycotts or divestments of Israel.
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A global divestment drive helped topple South Africa's apartheid regime in 1991 after companies including International Business Machines and General Motors pulled out from the region.
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"Aspen is currently engaged in discussions regarding a possible divestment of its global infant nutritionals business," the firm said in a statement without providing more details.
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An industry-funded study released in September concluded schools considering divestment could lose millions of dollars in investment returns if they followed through on their efforts.
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Both lawmakers are critics of the president and Netanyahu, support Palestinian rights and have backed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel (The Hill).
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Growing coal-divestment actions signaled by actors from Goldman Sachs to Allianz to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund may combine to make coal seem more risky.
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It put the assets up for sale as part of a $30 billion divestment programme after its acquisition of BG Group which was completed in February.
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The sale brings Shell's three-year $30 billon divestment plan close to its conclusion, having begun the process in 2015 after the acquisition of BG Group.
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This is the kind of sentiment that gun divestment advocates like Mark Glaze say they're trying to tap into in order to turn the situation around.
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While the divestment movement has been gaining steam across university campuses and other institutions around the world — the Rockefeller Family Fund divested from Exxon Mobil Corp.
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This is crucial at a time for Israel as a small country that is struggling with constant threats from terror, anti-Semitism, boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
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Over 20 states have taken action in opposition to the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, designed to economically isolate the Jewish State.
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A Shell spokesman said in response that "there has been no change to the previous statements we made on the three-year, $30 billion divestment program".
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The state treasurer sits on the boards of both of the state's major pension funds, but a divestment would require the approval of the broader boards.
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Urgewald, a tracking group that pushes for divestment from the coal sector, lists Power China as the 12th-largest developer of coal plants in the world.
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Elliott said Bewkes used a divestment-based strategy to create value for Time Warner shareholders, the opposite of the conglomerate-based strategy AT&T is pursuing.
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One of the leaders of fossil fuel divestment was an early supporter of the Sunrise Movement, an organization leading the charge for a Green New Deal.
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To help generate revenue, she also announced the government will reduce stakes in the country's largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation as part of its divestment program.
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Rod lift is an attractive divestment target because profits are slim and energy producers are switching to more advanced electric pumps which sit inside a well.
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Eid categorized efforts by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement to isolate and delegitimize Israel as harmful to Palestinian Arabs who want and need jobs.
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The call by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is part of a broader campaign to pressure governments, companies, performers and academics to disengage from Israel.
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According to the law, Vivendi could be fined an amount equal to between 2 and 5 percent of its revenues unless it complied with the divestment.
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The company's exposure to advertising revenues declines to 45% pro forma for the divestment of its radio business from approximately 13% during the year ended Dec.
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Most of Deutsche's prized assets are not going to be value accretive in a divestment until bank shares recover, making large-scale transactions unlikely before 20.8928.
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The sale of TAG, which operates about 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) of gas pipelines, is expected to be the largest divestment in Petrobras' asset sale program.
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The Mennonites follow in the footsteps of several other churches, including the Presbyterians and the United Church of Christ, that have voted through varying divestment resolutions.
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In a 2018 report published by Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy services firm, 61 pension funds have committed to divestment since 2016, bringing the total to 144.
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"These divestment efforts are politically motivated and based on a deliberate mischaracterization of our role as a long-standing service provider to the government," he said.
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At the University of Minnesota, the campus Hillel tried to block a referendum on divestment in 2018 by citing the State Department definition of anti-Semitism.
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With four justices still to vote, three said the divestment of state-run firms and subsidiaries required congressional authorization and four said such approval was not required.
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Invest AD's divestment is part of a transaction that will see Noor and J&P fully divest and Edgo partially divest, a statement from Invest AD said.
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"LafargeHolcim today announced that it is considering a divestment of its interest in Lafarge India with an annual cement capacity of around 11 million tonnes," it said.
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The divestment is part of a major scaleback, extended by the group in August to target 5 billion Swiss francs of divestments by the end of 2017.
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Others within the church, however, called those claims misleading, noting that the church remains invested in other Israeli companies and that members had overwhelmingly opposed divestment resolutions.
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Heavily indebted Petrobras unveiled plans to sell that stake in November as part of a divestment program aiming to offload $21 billion in assets by year-end.
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Netanyahu's AIPAC speech is likely to focus on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement — the group's top priority, after military aid to Israel and constraints on Iran.
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Sources have told Reuters that the companies had presented a divestment plan and the names of possible buyers to the Justice Department less than two weeks ago.
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With a Postbank divestment unlikely, the bank's supervisory board is set to discuss alternatives at its Wednesday meeting, including its full integration into Deutsche, the people said.
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If it were forced to do so, the risk is that so many issues become cause for divestment that ethical concerns pose a threat to Vanguard's business.
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Net income attributable to the company tumbled 52% to $286 million due to restructuring and divestment costs and a lower tax rate in the prior-year period.
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The deal could value the business at up to 500 million euros ($595 million) in what would be the Italian insurer's biggest divestment in its latest reorganisation.
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Tlaib aligned herself with a political cause far outside the Democratic mainstream when she said that she supports the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.
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Even as the "send her back" controversy was erupting, Omar had other Democrats preparing to play defense over her "Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions" resolution, or "BDS" for short.
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Separate data, from Statistics Canada, showed that foreign investors sold a net C$18.96 billion in Canadian securities in December, led by a record divestment in bonds.
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The hypocrite's trap The hypocrite's trap is a move that gets used with startling frequency against environmental activists, and especially against students advocating for fossil fuel divestment.
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A divestment of the unit is part of an effort to placate investors after the Dutch paintmaker rejected a takeover offer from rival PPG Industries last year.
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The divestment of LDC's profitable metal trading unit has put the onus on the group's agricultural businesses, which also include cotton, cereals and coffee, to boost returns.
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Thyssenkrupp's supervisory board could decide on a divestment of Materials Services, the group's biggest unit by sales, at its next meeting in July, the source told Reuters.
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An extension of Black Lives Matter, the Movement 4 Black Lives has gained popularity because it promotes "divestment from a system that criminalizes and incarcerates" black people.
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"The divestment enables Stockmann to fully focus on developing its department store properties in Finland and the Baltic countries," Chief Executive Lauri Veijalainen said in a statement.
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The mining company denied any link between the activists' move and prospects for Fayetteville including divestment, and said the move was instead part of an ongoing review.
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Three Dakota Access Pipeline protesters were arrested for scaling the rafters of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota and hanging a banner urging divestment from the proposed pipeline.
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Va.) that seeks to counter the "boycott, divestment, sanctions" (BDS) movement by allowing state and local government to boycott U.S. companies who engage in boycotts of Israel.
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One of the new Defending Main Street mailers points to the foundation's donation to groups that support boycotting Israeli goods — a movement called Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS).
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The two representatives have drawn criticism for their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which is critical of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
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On a recent afternoon, volunteers in the War Resisters office packed dozens of boxes with paper to be recycled, including a brochure encouraging divestment in weapons manufacturers.
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She aligned herself with a political cause far outside the Democratic mainstream when she said that she supports the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.
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Tlaib and Omar have voiced support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement over Israel's policies toward Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Our vote will decide the course of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) legislation, American policy regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions, and U.S. support for Israel's right to self-defense.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE praised the House of Representatives for passing a resolution opposing the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
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Tlaib initially filed a request and said that she would not vocalize her support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel while in the region.
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The divestment comes less than a week after shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk said it would split into two units and focus on its container shipping business.
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With unfunded public pension liabilities now exceeding $6 trillion across the nation, these ridiculous divestment antics risk further insolvency and could leave millions of pensioners needlessly exposed.
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Solomon said physicians can also pressure politicians to create better climate change-oriented public policy and put pressure on groups to use financial divestment as a tool.
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Consistent with CalSTRS investment policy with respect to divestment proposals, CalSTRS will research the Treasurer's request, and make the appropriate decision in accordance with our fiduciary duty.
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"The path for the United States to provide sanctions relief is through divestment and relinquishment of control of RUSAL by Oleg Deripaska," the agency said in April.
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Some of the most bitter fighting has taken place in the University of California system, where nearly all of the student government councils have approved divestment proposals.
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"2016 has seen substantial instability which has pushed companies back to the drawing board to consider alternative options like merging or divestment," he said in an email.
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BHP said divestment of a small portion of the onshore Hawkville acreage was completed in the September 2017 quarter, with "work underway" to exit the remaining acreage.
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The TAG divestment, for instance, had previously been given the go-ahead by Brazil's second highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court, and by the nation's solicitor-general.
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The deal could value the business at up to 500 million euros ($595 million) in what would be the Italian insurer's biggest divestment in its latest reorganization.
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There will be no divestment of any assets in the completion of the merger, Daniel Petrocelli, lead trial attorney for AT&T, told reporters after the decision.
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At the end of last month, the company reported a surge in third-quarter net profit, helped by stronger sales and a divestment of a clothing chain.
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"From what we hear since the last few weeks, it would be a partial divestment," another source said, adding that the formal process had not yet started.
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Nonprofits should also explore mergers, consolidations and the divestment of "non-core" programs, though the number of "takers" is probably small in the midst of a crisis.
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Occidental "will have to move fast to complete its divestment plan and integrate the newly acquired business" to allay investors' concerns about the deal, Mr. Aitken said.
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This competition, Israel's third time as host, was accompanied by unusually intense background noise as the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement campaigned against Israel's role.
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Citigroup and Goldman Sachs had also helped BHP research the potential spin-off of the unit into a new company, should divestment prove unachievable, Reuters previously reported.
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This puts the city on the same page as a number of other cities, New York State and many colleges, where the divestment movement first took root.
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The Kunlun purchases had never been submitted to Cfius, giving the government the leverage to go back in after the sale to try to force a divestment.
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Mr. Fishback is also a member of the group, which is part of the broader movement calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, known as BDS.
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Trump's reaction came days after the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a resolution to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement, which Omar and Tlaib support.
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"Don't let it get to the point that Freeport's divestment will sacrifice the right of Indonesians to better health services and education," he said in an interview.
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Thunberg, who Mnuchin said should get an economics degree before making calls about fossil fuel divestment, is due to take part in a climate strike on Friday.
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What they're saying: Harvard spokesperson Rachel Dane said the university "respectfully disagree[s] with divestment activists," on how to confront climate change, according to The Harvard Crimson.
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According to environmental group Unfriend Coal, 17 insurers, with more than $6 trillion in assets, have adopted coal divestment policies and withdrawn $30 billion from the sector.
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But at the same time, Temasek was in net divestment mode for the fiscal year, investing S$16 billion and divesting S$18 billion in the portfolio.
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Just over a week ago, Israel's Parliament passed a law barring entry to foreigners who have publicly supported that movement, known as B.D.S. — boycott, divestment and sanctions.
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Hal Foster, Andrea Fraser, and Tania Bruguera were among 2400 prominent artists, scholars, and critics who signed an open letter demanding divestment in October of last year.
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The group is expected to ask Barclays to lead the divestment, the people said, adding that a final mandate has not yet been assigned but was imminent.
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"It felt really good because we know that people support divestment but now we know that people will take extra action to support this cause," he said.
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Fair valuation for the divestment, a sticking point in the past, could be resolved by a listing on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, Freeport's Adkerson said last month.
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Under Kocher, Engie embarked on a major divestment plan to switch the company away from fossil fuels and focus on power grids, renewable energy and energy services.
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Divestment has taken off as a tactic by climate change campaigners to pressure the fossil fuel industry but rarely do large private funders make such large commitments.
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Here, as if to finally course-correct this omission, the series uses his divestment from ideology as a dramatic question: who does Captain America truly fight for?
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There's good reason divestment was the norm: Presidents are supposed to make policy decisions based on the public good, not what's best for their personal bottom line.
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The divestment of bank equities may reflect a loss of confidence in the Danish banking sector in the wake of Danske Bank's money laundering case, it said.
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Shell said the deal was likely to close by the end of the third quarter and the latest stake sale would contribute to its ongoing divestment program.
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The pipeline unit sale began in 2017, but was interrupted by a Supreme Court injunction and by the review of the divestment process by Brazil's audit court.
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For the first time, two sitting members, Representatives Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, publicly support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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He condemned the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which supports economic measures opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank, as an example of disproportionate attention on Israel.
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"He has to switch tactics," she said, pointing to international measures like the boycott-divestment-sanctions campaign and pressing charges against Israelis in the International Criminal Court.
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Last October, nearly a year after the University of Michigan's divestment vote, there was an "apartheid-wall demonstration" co-sponsored by the campus Latinx group, La Casa.
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On the same day the Canadian parliament voted to condemn the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, yet another Canadian university campus voted to do exactly the opposite.
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In return, it commits to a capital increase of at least 216 million euros and to continue the divestment procedures for its Clarel and Max Descuento businesses. Feb.
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Non-residents sold C$2.80 billion worth of Canadian stocks - the first divestment in six months - as investors redeemed equities in the wake of merger and acquisition activity.
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Since late last year, the group has been in talks with banks to find a buyer for the unit, as part of divestment efforts aimed at slashing debt.
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Pampo and Enchova produced almost 39,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to July 2018 figures, making it the largest mature production asset in Petrobras' divestment portfolio.
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The rules include broad changes to permit extensions, which may now be applied for up to five years in advance of expiry, as well as new divestment requirements.
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"Conspicuously absent is any evidence of the preparations allegedly being undertaken by President-Elect Trump to resolve potential conflicts of interest through some manner of divestment," Moss said.
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What divestments would be required of her and how would the Office of Government Ethics or other relevant officials determine whether she had complied with these divestment requirements?
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And, in fact, according to a study by the University of Oxford, fossil fuel divestment has the potential to cause significant damage to coal, gas and oil companies.
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Dennar said was forced to forfeit payment for judging at a Klein Independent School District debate tournament because he actively participates in a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
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The report was the latest salvo by Israel in its fight against a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions over of its treatment of the Palestinians.
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"This significant divestment should help de-gear Shell's balance sheet over 2017 and help remove concerns around the dividend," said Biraj Borkhataria, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
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The sale represents Verizon's efforts to streamline its business and follows the divestment last year of a chunk of its landline business and a portfolio of wireless towers.
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Kocher has led a 15 billion euro ($18.5 billion) divestment plan to switch Engie away from fossil fuels and focus on power grids, renewable energy and energy services.
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In May, it was made public that Linton would resign as interim CEO of Dune Entertainment, a film financing company Mnuchin once headed, as part of his divestment.
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The Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement issued a statement of solidarity, and the Palestinian Youth Movement sent a delegation to the Standing Rock protest camp.
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Freeport has said that divestment of a majority stake must be part of a package that guarantees its long-term right to Grasberg and fiscal certainty as well.
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So as part of the divestment deal, Freeport wants a clear fiscal regime that governs taxes and royalties during the term of its contract to work the mine.
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Israel's culture minister, Miri Regev, suggested the actress was supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to isolate Israel economically over its treatment of Palestinians.
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Both Omar and Tlaib support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which is critical of Israel on human rights issues in the long-standing conflict with Palestine.
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Arison's three representatives on the bank's board stepped down on Tuesday leaving seven directors, Hapoalim CEO Arik Pinto said, adding that otherwise the divestment would not impact business.
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And at the base of that I think it's because I am the most vocal person about Israel and BDS [the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement].
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The divestment is part of Piraeus Bank's EU-approved restructuring plan and will boost its core equity tier-1 capital by about 15 basis points, the bank said.
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But its dominant theory of change still used institutional mechanisms like divestment and attempts to pressure climate negotiators at the United Nations, rather than more grassroots mass politics.
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"The competitiveness of our portfolio was further enhanced with the divestment of non-strategic assets, reaching almost a third of our 2021 objective of $15 billion," he said.
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For a company focused solely on profit at the expense of the environment and humanity, perhaps divestment could be the catalyst that starts to change ExxonMobil's irresponsible behavior.
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In the past four years, more than 500 institutions across the globe, with assets totaling more than $3.4 trillion, have committed to some level of fossil fuel divestment.
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BHP last month said divestment of a small portion of onshore shale acreage was completed in the September 2017 quarter, with "work underway" to exit the remaining acreage.
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The congresswomen, who had planned a trip to Israel for later this month, have supported Palestinian rights and backed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.
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Across the board, the Jewish left—from Liberal Zionists to supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement—blasted the law and demanded equality for all of Israel's citizens.
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Divestment is the easiest solution, but one that creates difficulties because real estate assets like Mr. Trump's would not be easy to unload without becoming a fire sale.
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Activists have gone to new lengths this year to promote fossil fuel divestment, occupying New York campus libraries and holding protests at the offices of major pension funds.
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But for pensioners relying on their retirement benefits or students relying on financial aid, this costly decision to make a symbolic divestment choice may carry an unintended consequence.
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Québec's Université Laval has become the first Canadian university to vow to divest from fossil fuels, in an effort to join the global movement towards fossil fuel divestment.
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Like Harvey-Sanchez, Kristen Perry, a member at Divest McGill, said that the recent rejection of divestment by major universities in Canada is galvanizing supporters of the movement.
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Divestment made a difference in everything from the apartheid movement in South Africa to the ouster of Bill O'Reilly from Fox News, so these money movements can matter.
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The utility, which recently completed divestment of 9.3 billion euros' worth of Nordic power grids, said its earnings were hurt by low Nordic power prices and write-downs.
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After graduating from Swarthmore College, where she was involved in a fossil fuel divestment campaign, Ms. Zaia said she felt compelled to find a job in climate activism.
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Together, the fields produce almost 39,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to July 2018 figures, making them the largest mature production asset in Petrobras' divestment portfolio.
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But an ethics and divestment agreement he filed in January, which listed assets he intended to keep, did not mention Navigator, leaving unclear whether he had sold it.
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Schifeling and Hoffman acknowledge that the divestment movement has not — and, realistically, probably cannot — accomplish its goal of substantially affecting the financial health of large fossil fuel companies.
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Last week, the United States barred entry to Omar Barghouti, one of the co-founders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, also known as B.D.S., without explanation.
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But the oil crash has put the brakes on that ambitious divestment push for now and some already announced deals could fall apart, according to several industry sources.
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The agency said AMP's credit outlook was negative and warned that its rating could be lowered by up to two more notches after the life insurance divestment completes.
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But the oil crash has put the brakes on that ambitious divestment push for now and some already announced deals could fall apart, according to several industry sources.
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No state has passed laws denying government contracts to critics of political correctness; such measures are only for supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
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Among other things, the group's divestment campaign collected over 1 million signatures urging J.P. Morgan Chase and other banks to separate themselves from CoreCivic and The GEO Group.
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The protest, which happened during halftime, was over fossil fuel divestment, something that students from both schools have been asking their respective administrations to do for several years.
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The object of the government's response is the increased campus debate about Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a movement advocating economic measures opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
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The list was praised by a range of rights groups and denounced by Israeli officials, who saw it as a capitulation to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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Kriseman announced the proposed divestment at the March For Our Lives gathering in St. Petersburg on Saturday, one of hundreds of such events nationwide sparked by the Feb.
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Ellison had read the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" in high school; soon he was a leading campus petitioner on behalf of divestment from the South African government.
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Linde said on Wednesday it expected the revenue threshold for divestment commitments to be exceeded, but didn't say by how much and did not mention the EBITDA hurdle.
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At the moment, only continued pressure from citizens and groups who care about ethics in government seems remotely capable of persuading Mr. Trump to agree to full divestment.
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Andrew Cuomo on June 5 signed Executive Order No. 157, directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
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"The merger parties presented an improved and clear-cut structural remedy to complement the divestment of LCH S.A., which addressed the commission's specific concerns," the London exchange said.
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The list, details of which have not been previously reported, would easily exceed its current divestment target which envisages it selling about $221 billion of assets by 2021.
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For too long, the lone outlet for students concerned about mounting climate risks has been fossil fuel divestment campaigns, which are long on symbolism but short on progress.
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Hickenlooper said he would reaffirm the country's commitment to the NATO alliance, revive arms control talks with China and Russia and reject boycotts, divestment or sanctions on Israel.
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But the issue is highly sensitive as companies named could be targeted for boycotts or divestment aimed at stepping up pressure on Israel over its West Bank settlements.
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Schäfer faced intense backlash following a tweet posted on the museum's page which linked to a petition in defense of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
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The tweet linked to a petition in defense of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), which calls for a cultural, economic, and political boycott of Israel.
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The listing would help the government meet its divestment targets and make up for a failed plan earlier this year to sell a stake in national carrier Air India.
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AngloGold said in May it would review divestment options for its Mponeng mine, the world's deepest gold mine, and other South African assets to focus on higher returns elsewhere.
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While the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sought materials about Trump's potential divestment from his company, that topic rarely arose in the materials, which included some redacted email.
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The network has since spearheaded a worldwide divestment campaign that has won commitments from more than 1,000 investors worth almost $8 trillion to withdraw from coal, oil and gas.
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What's dope about the evolution of divestment into public banking [is that] public banks have a charter and mission and however you write them dictates what the bank does.
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Questions fire off on tangents as far-ranging as his stance on Donald Trump to divestment from fossil fuels and the anti-immigrant rantings of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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According to Dillon, Trump is taking "extraordinary steps" with his finances, none of which will involve financial divestment or a blind trust, two of the most transparent, robust options.
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"I joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, that upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity," Leinonen stated.
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The company said it will continue to focus on cost reductions, margin improvements and divestment of non-core properties while moving forward with a profitable plan for organic growth.
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The divestment applies only to LGIM's Future World funds, which it says are set up for clients who want to express a conviction on environmental, social and governance themes.
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"That ChemChina has not done this yet suggests it is trying to mitigate a full divestment of Adama, such as by selling a number of significant activities," said Kokkoris.
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At the same time, Canadians reduced their holdings in foreign securities by C$9.87 billion after four consecutive months of acquisitions, making for the largest divestment since January 2016.
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Foreign investors sold a net C$12.80 billion in Canadian securities in April, led by equities, following a revised C$1.56 billion total divestment in March, Statistics Canada said.
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Nestle's net profit jumped 42 percent to 10.1 billion Swiss francs ($10.02 billion) thanks to the divestment of its U.S. confectionery business, while the margin improved to 17.0 percent.
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On closing, the divestment would result in a positive impact on Volvo's operating income of about 1.5 billion crowns and on cash flow of 1.1 billion crowns, Volvo said.
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The buybacks will help the government partly make up for a funds shortfall in its ambitious divestment target for state companies ahead of the federal budget later this month.
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"We understand that RBS and the UK authorities remain fully committed to this divestment," an EU spokesman said on April 28 when RBS conceded it could miss its deadline.
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Pouyanne told analysts that $3 billion of the divestment would come from the exploration and production segment, with the company also reducing its stake in some renewable energy projects.
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Excluding foreign exchange swings and the impact of acquisitions and divestment, organic sales were up 5.4 percent between January and September, accelerating from the first half of the year.
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While some have derided this fossil fuel divestment plan as unattainable, others think it's entirely possible—so long as we have 20 to 80 years to make it happen.
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Citi analyst Klas Bergelind said order intake was a 12% miss on expectations and adjusted earnings was a 7-8% miss due to a bigger impact from a divestment.
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Sadikin said Freeport Indonesia would remain mine operator after divestment and said "we're getting closer and closer" to a deal and that it could still be concluded in 2018.
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Navigation will still default to Audi's HERE services, which makes sense given that Audi owner Volkswagen Group is a co-owner of the service following its divestment from Nokia.
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The two freshmen have drawn ire from Republicans for their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which is critical of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
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One of the most conspicuous manifestations of anti-Semitism on college campuses is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to destroy Israel by crippling its economy.
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The Anglo-Dutch firm said steady progress in its divestment program had helped the company beat analyst expectations, though some external observers were concerned about its cash flow generation.
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Morris, however, said the timing of a potential divestment was uncertain and the company would not rush to sell non-core assets in order to get the best value.
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Ingrid Jaradat is a legal analyst and one of the founders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality View the discussion thread.
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Tlaib's support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel — referring to efforts to economically pressure the country over its treatment of Palestinians — was the real issue.
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Democrats are also under pressure to oppose the foreign policy package because it includes legislation from Rubio and Manchin meant to counter the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel.
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On university campuses across the U.S., J Street supports groups that promote BDS, the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, some of which openly call for Israel's destruction.
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"It is now for the parties to propose a divestment package and one or more suitable purchasers for the CMA to approve," said Martin Cave, who chaired the inquiry.
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"Clearance of this transaction is conditional on the divestment of FMC's sulfonylurea and florasulam businesses in the European Economic Area," the EU antitrust enforcer said, referring to two herbicides.
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In 85033, I was pleased to be the introducing sponsor of our country's first modern legislation regulating against the activities of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israel.
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The bank estimated that close to 79 percent of MSCI Singapore could be involved in corporate activities such as asset divestment, listings of business units or consolidation of holdings.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Lonza has adjusted its mid-term guidance, slightly lowering its sales outlook and slightly upping its margin forecast, to reflect the divestment of its water care business.
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Sabeco Chief Executive Le Hong Xanh told shareholders at the company's annual general meeting that the ministry's divestment plan had been submitted to the government, but gave no details.
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New GSK Chief Executive Emma Walmsley announced the strategic review and potential divestment of rare diseases on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging drive to streamline pharmaceutical operations.
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The letter urges Germany to "review its funding guidelines" for organizations that are involved in "anti-Israeli propaganda" or endorse the BDS movement (the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement).
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"We have also made significant progress with our divestment programme, allowing us to reduce net debt in that time," Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said in a statement.
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The divestment comes just weeks after Walmart announced that it would be taking a majority stake in Flipkart, the largest online retailer in India, its largest deal to date.
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Worried that complete divestment might hobble a portfolio's performance, however, Ms. Mehta might reduce a portfolio's carbon footprint to, say, 80 percent of a benchmark like the S.&P.
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A growing number of Jews — especially young Jews — oppose Israeli policies and support B.D.S. (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), the Palestinian-led civil society movement pressing Israel to respect Palestinian rights.
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In meetings, when they were considering places to press the divestment argument, Mr. Kumalo, who had already been to all the possible targets, knew which locations would be unproductive.
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According to a 2016 US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment report, some $493 billion in assets were affected by divestment targeting military contractors and weapons makers.
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Take, as one example, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, a Palestinian-led initiative that endorses a series of nonviolent measures to end Israel's systematic oppression of the Palestinians.
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Personal values have a place in investment decisions, Mr. Hale said, adding that some people viewed divestment from coal, gas and oil as a matter of morals, not money.
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Under pressure from citizens and environmental activists, many union, city and state pension funds have agreed to divest from fossil fuels, joining the so-called fossil fuel divestment movement.
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When I was a student at Columbia in New York City there were two major divestment campaigns on campus: one for private prisons and another for fossil fuel corporations.
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One of the organizers of Columbia's prison divestment campaign is now a leader in Black Youth Project 22019, an organization at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Pressure has been building on oil and gas companies to transition to less polluting forms of energy, with the threat of fossil-fuel divestment sometimes used as a stick.
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First, there is the effort by the environmental left to induce or force divestment in fossil fuel companies, in substantial part on the grounds that international climate policies — i.e.
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Thunberg made the call for fossil fuel divestment — as well as an end to subsidies, exploration, and extraction — in her remarks at the World Economic Forum earlier this week.
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Temasek invested S$212 billion and divested S$21.6 billion in the portfolio during the fiscal year, marking the first net divestment position since the end of March, 2800.
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In the so-called "non-binding phase" of the transaction, prospective buyers will receive a memorandum with detailed information about the pipeline company and divestment instructions, including tender guidelines.
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The goal of the divestment is to "reduce the vulnerability of our common wealth to a permanent oil price decline," Norwegian finance minister Siv Jensen said in a statement.
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Wall Street firms have jumped in; Goldman Sachs acquired Imprint Capital, an E.S.G.-focused firm, last year and Perella Weinberg Partners manages the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's fossil-fuel divestment.
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The move is targeted at anti-Israel sentiments and divestment movements on campuses, but critics say the policy could suppress free speech and opposition to Israel's policies toward Palestinians.
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At the end of last year, Lawrence Bacow, the president of Harvard, told The Harvard Crimson that there were more effective ways to "bring about meaningful change" than divestment.
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Jonan said a stock listing was an option and that a negotiating team for the divestment would be formed to execute this and financial advisers would likely be appointed.
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Climate change campaigners have used divestment to great effect, securing more than $11 trillion in commitments from endowments, pension funds, and private trusts to divest from fossil fuel companies.
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With hopes for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians vastly diminished, Palestinians and their supporters have been advocating a strategy called B.D.S.: boycott, divestment and sanctions.
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The move came a year after Deukmejian vetoed a less aggressive divestment bill and Democratic critics accused him of switching his position for political gain as he sought reelection.
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At some smaller liberal arts schools, sizable groups of Jewish students support divestment, and the student arm of J Street is the only remaining pro-Israel organization on campus.
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As with nearly every divestment vote on American campuses, this one targeted only companies involved in settlements and occupation, not those that operate solely within Israel's pre-103 boundaries.
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She volunteers on human rights campaigns with nonprofit groups Code Pink: Women For Peace; International Solidarity for Palestine; the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel Movement; and 350.org.
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With a divestment unlikely, the bank's supervisory board is set to discuss at its Wednesday meeting strategic alternatives for Postbank, including its full integration into Deutsche Bank, the people said.
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"The actual reported outcome will depend on the exact timing of project start-ups, acquisition and divestment activities, OPEC quotas and entitlement impacts in our production-sharing agreements," it said.
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"Divestment is a tactic," said Ilana Cohen, a student in Harvard's class of 53 and lead coordinator of the Fossil Free Divest Harvard campaign at Harvard Undergrads for Environmental Justice.
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Achieving the benefits of the deal depends in part on Occidental's successful divestment in $10 billion-$15 billion in assets and achieving $3.5 billion in savings from the tie-up.
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Sure, they could theoretically take "real" action by demanding his tax returns, challenging him on his non-divestment from his businesses, or not voting for his dangerously under-qualified appointees.
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However he would not rule out the possibility of further divestment "if a good offer is to surface, but the focus right now is to develop companies and create value".
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Together, Pampo and Enchova produced almost 39,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to July 2018 figures, making it the largest mature production asset in the company's divestment portfolio.
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The final ratings will depend on pro-forma leverage on completion and on the visibility and credibility of a sustainable de-leveraging path using cash flow and potential divestment proceeds.
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The TAG divestment, for instance, had previously been given the go-ahead by a minister on Brazil's slightly lower Supreme Judicial Court, or STJ, and by the nation's solicitor-general.
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Years of divestment by the federal government have left the Housing Authority with nearly $17 billion in unmet capital needs, and annual operating deficits of tens of millions of dollars.
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Right now there's a nationwide push to hold fossil fuel companies accountable via lawsuits, shareholder resolutions, and divestment for their contributions to climate change and campaigns to mislead the public.
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The company's liquidity is also supported by strong access to capital markets and banks, while the pending divestment of its 18.3% economic interest in SPi should provide added financial flexibility.
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The fossil fuel divestment campaign has received backing from the UN, mobilized thousands of people around the world to take action and thousands of groups, companies and people are divesting.
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Sales of other properties in the joint venture could follow if the Vancouver store divestment is successful, said the person, who was not authorized to publicly talk about the deal.
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The deal would be a rare divestment by Buffett, who has built a corporate empire of more than 90 businesses in sectors spanning insurance, chemicals, energy, railroads, food and retail.
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In a corporate operations review published on Wednesday, BHP said the gas-rich Fayetteville field in Arkansas was under review and that it was now "considering all options, including divestment".
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Nestle's net profit jumped 42 percent to 10.1 billion Swiss francs ($10.02 billion) thanks notably to the divestment of its U.S. confectionery business, while the margin improved to 17.0 percent.
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However, the divestment of the metals unit, which Louis Dreyfus in December agreed to sell to China's NCCL Natural Resources Investment Fund, will remove one of its most profitable activities.
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Cemex has identified some $700 million of non-productive assets such as real estate, Gonzalez said in an interview, and some $300 million are already included in the divestment plan.
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Some banking and industry sources said Merck could put the divestment on hold since the sale, estimated to be worth around $4.5 billion, risked being eclipsed by the Pfizer auction.
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Inalum said earlier this month that Freeport's divestment of a controlling interest was still planned for 2018, even though the price and some contract terms were still to be agreed.
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It was then spun off in 2009 as part of a divestment agreement struck with the European Commission to help give RBS a bail-out package during the banking crisis.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Dow Chemical, DuPont – The two chemical companies have received European Commission approval for their planned merger, with some divestment conditions.
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"At the one-year anniversary of Paris, and after a historic election in the US, divestment is needed more than ever," Ellen Dorsey, leader of DivestInvest, said in a statement.
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However, the investments were funded by cash inflow from the divestment of the Grande Centre Point Hotel Terminal 21 of THB3.7bn and the warrant exercise of about THB2852bn in 22015.
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Sampurno said the government wanted to avoid a repeat of a lengthy squabble over private investment in the state-sanctioned divestment of fellow copper miner Newmont Mining Inc's local unit.
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Full or partial equity funding, or divestment of Singtel's stake in NetLink Trust ahead of the Infocomm Development Authority's mandated April 2018 deadline would provide Singtel with additional financial headroom.
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However, trading in bonds ground to a halt after Washington imposed a swathe of sanctions, including a ban on U.S. investors from trading in the secondary market, other than divestment.
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Reuters could not immediately determine which assets, if any, he may need to divest, but the same Justice Department official said government ethics lawyers are working on a divestment plan.
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Much of the clean energy technology needed is already available, and a surging divestment campaign is persuading investors that keeping money in fossil fuel companies is a growing financial risk.
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"We expect Petrobras' deleveraging process and divestment program to continue under Castello Branco's tenure," Vincente Falanga and Oscar Camilo, analysts at Banco Bradesco BBI, wrote in a note to clients.
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He unveiled a resolution earlier this month condemning "anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred," specifically citing Tlaib and Omar's support for the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
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In the separate letter, addressed to Stefan Passantino, a deputy counsel to the president and designated agency ethics official, the Democrats asked for information about Kushner's divestment from Kushner Companies.
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Tlaib, like Omar, has voiced support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which opposes the occupation and Israel's policies toward Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
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"Petrobras is studying new ways to continue with its divestment program, in accordance with current legislation while following the limits set by this decision," the company said in a statement.
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However small the divestment is on behalf of New York's city employees, the move culminates a yearlong effort by some in city government to take action against the gun industry.
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BDS, which stands for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, is a controversial program that has been met with harsh opposition by Israel and its supporters — particularly elected officials in the American government.
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"Google's move to ban bail bonds ads is the most massive divestment any private sector entity has made from the bail industry," the group said in a message to supporters.
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In response to the Democrats' letter, the GSA said in a statement it could not speak definitively about divestment until Trump's financial arrangements were completed and he had become president.
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But Netanyahu, citing the women's support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, announced on Thursday he would be barring the Congress members from entering the country.
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In the letter, which was issued before Parliament acted, the scholars urged lawmakers not to sign the resolution declaring the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, known as B.D.S., anti-Semitic.
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Linde's planned divestment is unrelated to its failed plan to merge with peer Praxair, which was scrapped last month over issues such as headquarters and key personnel, the people said.
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The Commission, which oversees competition policy in the European Union, said its approval was conditional on the divestment of a product under development by Allergan to treat inflammatory bowel diseases.
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Fortum has been looking for mergers and acquisitions for years following its 9.3 billion euro divestment of power distribution grids, but it has so far announced only relatively small investments.
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Red tape -- U.S. primary trade embargo and secondary sanctions related to Iran's missile program, regional policies and human rights record and state-level divestment legislations – continue to hamper commercial ties.
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He is to the left of the Democratic field on most key issues surrounding the relationship between US and Israel, but does not support the controversial Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
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"It's a stunning number," said Ellen Dorsey, the executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, which has promoted fossil fuel divestment and clean energy investment as part of its philanthropy.
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The oil PSUs are also getting double benefit from a fall in crude prices as well as the cabinet committee meeting to discuss strategic divestment of some of the companies.
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But even as violence escalates against American Jews, there's little evidence that criticism of Israel on college campuses (including over the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement) is a leading vector.
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Lippo Karawaci said the rest of the funds will come from $143 million in proceeds from asset divestment plans, including a transfer of its Puri Mall holding to Lippo Malls.
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The move appears to be targeting the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which encourages various forms of boycott against Israel for what it deems violations of international law.
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Freeport has denied it breached Indonesia's environmental rules, but the issues have delayed the company's planned divestment of a majority stake to Indonesia's state-owned mining holding company, PT Inalum.
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Brookfield's purchase of gas pipeline operator Nova Transportadora do Sudeste SA (NTS) from Petrobras was part of a controversial divestment program aimed at trimming the oil firm's massive debt load.
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The Reform Jewish movement opposes the expansion of settlements, but is strongly opposed to the B.D.S. movement, and has tried to dissuade several American church groups from passing divestment resolutions.
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Brazil's federal audit court TCU on Wednesday allowed Petroleo Brasileiro SA to proceed with its divestment program, but required the company to restart the processes in all but two projects.
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"Divestment is a tactic," said Ilana Cohen, a student in Harvard's class of 2022 and lead coordinator of the Fossil Free Divest Harvard campaign at Harvard Undergrads for Environmental Justice.
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Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, or SAFE, is one of roughly 200 chapters of the main student divestment group in the United States, National Students for Justice in Palestine.
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The divestment only applies to LGIMs Future World Funds which it says are set up for clients who want to express a conviction on environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes.
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Omar and Tlaib are far-left progressives who openly support the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement against Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, an unheard-of move for new members of Congress.
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It would suggest that she, one of a relatively few celebrities to have prominently defended Israel in the past, was supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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That compares with a record net profit of S$5.45 billion a year earlier when it benefited from a divestment gain from the listing of its broadband unit NetLink NBN Trust.
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Divestment of the principal finance business comes as emerging markets-focused StanChart looks to boost its income after two years of restructuring under chief executive and former JPMorgan banker Bill Winters.
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Fitch believes the divestment will not considerably affect MPM's cash flow profile, as MPMF only contributed around 9% to MPM's net income in 9M16 and has not been paying any dividends.
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For the coming year EY expects deals to be fueled by the industry's return to investment-led strategies aimed at building portfolios rather than divestment-oriented deals that dominated in 2017.
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The divestment would require the approval of theCompetition Commission of India (CCI) as an alternate remedy for the merger of the group's legacy companies, it said, adding talks with CCI continued.
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It would be trivial for Ryan to, for example, work with Democrats to force Trump to disclose real information about his personal finances or engage in real divestment from his businesses.
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Freeport faces a narrowing window to make a new deal on taxes, royalties, divestment and a second smelter, before it develops what would be the world's biggest underground mine, Hakim said.
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Still, one aspect of Trump's divestment plan appears to have appeal, 54% say they approve of his plan to donate to the U.S. Treasury Trump hotel profits earned from foreign governments.
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Earlier this month, companies proposed minor concessions to the European Commission's competition watchdog with one source close to the deal estimating the overall divestment from Adama at less than $500 million.
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The deal with Total is a binding agreement, and the divestment of the African assets would happen at the same time Occidental closes a deal to purchase Anadarko or shortly after.
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BRUSSELS, April 13 (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, has submitted its divestment proposals to secure EU competition clearance for its purchase of Italian steel producer Ilva, it said on Friday.
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Another government official, who also asked not to be identified, said the government may set a divestment target of at least 22018 billion rupees to 219 billion rupees in 28/19.
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