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Lloyd’s has announced that CEO John Neal will be leaving in 2025 to join Aon as its global CEO of reinsurance and global chairman of climate solutions. In what is a new role at Aon, the broker said Neal will “help lead [its] efforts to address the growing and complex risks associated with climate change, … Read more
The Netherlands is the world’s leader in fresh flower production. Over the past decade, the sector has grown by a fifth. But NGOs have been warning about the high levels of pesticides in Dutch flowers. One study even showed that a third of the substances analysed were banned in the European Union, some of them … Read more
Tech companies showing off their latest innovations at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, one of the world’s biggest industry events, are gearing up for a new era of protectionism under a second Trump presidency. With more than a third of the world’s consumer electronics made in China, industry groups expect prices to significantly rise for … Read more
Samantha Liss On the heels of a scuttled hospital merger between rivals in Terre Haute, Indiana, a state senator introduced a bill that would forbid similar mergers in the future. Last year, nonprofit Union Health tried to acquire the only other acute care hospital in Vigo County by leveraging a state law it helped create … Read more
Economists have mixed views on the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) advance estimate of 6.4% GDP growth for FY25. While HSBC’s Chief India Economist Pranjul Bhandari expects growth to be slightly lower at 6.2%, Sakshi Gupta, Vice President and Senior Economist of HDFC Bank agrees with the 6.4% estimate, highlighting varying expectations for … Read more