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BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust Plc - Final Results PR Newswire (LEI: 54930040ALEAVPMMDC31) PERFORMANCE RECORD 80.76 2 4,900 4.31 4.00 ======== 1 The change in net assets reflects market movements, the buyback of shares and dividends paid during the year. 2 Alternative Performance Measures, see Glossary contained within the Annual Report which can be found on the Companys website at wwww.blackrock.com/uk/beri. CHAIRMANS STATEMENT MARKET OVERVIEW This year has been chall...

Rediscovering the Appeal of Emerging Market Equities Emerging-market (EM) stocks, often considered risky in a crisis, rebounded in 2020 even as the COVID-19 pandemic spread globally. As vaccines and other favorable conditions unfold, investors have good reasons to consider EM equities in 2021 while strategically considering their potential risks. Emerging-market (EM) stocks were largely shunned as the COVID-19 crisis took hold, but theyre starting to attract more attention. After suffering sinc...

President calls for conviction and confidence amid unprecedented global challenges during top-level meeting on Monday.

Depending on how the Biden administration responds, North Korea may revert to testing to modernize its military SHARE Image: Rodong Sinmun On Saturday, North Korean state media unveiled a comprehensive report on the accomplishments and plans of the Workers’ Party of Korea Seventh Central Committee. That plan is wide-ranging and multifarious.  On matters pertaining to North Korea’s state nuclear forces and military modernization, the report is among the most detailed ever in the country’s...

By John Richardson THIS IS VERY much a personal plea to our industry about what I see as the biggest challenge we face in 2021 and beyond: carbon and other greenhouse gases. “We need to rebrand climate change as the climate crisis,” a source who works for an oil, gas and petrochemical company has been telling me for months. Hear, hear. Let us start with the plastic pollution issue. New solutions to the plastic rubbish crisis must also help reduce carbon emissions. There is little point in s...

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in 2013. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool/File Photo Chinese negotiators surprised their European Union counterparts this week with key market-access concessions—following long months of intransigence—that could allow the two parties to reach an agreement on a historic investment deal by year’s end. Though EU officials haven’t yet revealed the details, one senior EU diplomat said the agreement goes beyond anythin...

Op-Ed: China’s Xi Jinping seeks advantage over Biden with ground-breaking EU investment deal CNBC 12/20/2020 Frederick Kempe Though EU officials havent yet revealed the details, one senior EU diplomat said the agreement goes beyond anything Beijing has offered any foreign partner previously. The agreement comes shortly after Americans elected Joe Biden, following a campaign during which he pledged to rally allies in Europe and Asia to counteract Chinas unfair trade practices...

China’s Latest Economic Buzzword: ‘Demand-Side Reform’ A store employee dresses a mannequin on Nov. 2 at a department store in Urumqi, Northwest China Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Supply-side structural reform has been a top policy objective for China since it was first introduced by President Xi Jinping in late 2015, but a new buzzword has now entered the country’s economic lexicon — “demand-side reform” (需求侧改革). The phrase made its public debut on Friday at the l...

December 9th, 2020 by Kevin Rudd The following is the full text of ASPI President  Kevin Rudds prepared remarks, which he delivered in part during an Asia Society virtual discussion on December 9, 2020. While both America and the world were transfixed by the U.S. presidential election on the 3rd of November, very few people would have noticed that just five days before, China concluded a major meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party which outlined the core o...

Posted by Administrator on The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on Wednesday held an advanced seminar on governance via video, strictly abiding by the health guidelines of both countries. Minister Song Tao of the International Department of Central Committee of CPC, Party Secretary Liu Cigui of CPC Provincial Committee of Hainan Province, SLPP Chairman Professor G.L. Peiris, Secretary General Sagara Kariyawasam, SLPP MPs including Mahinda Yapa Abeyw...