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China’s coal capital goes for clean up act to go green

  Bloomberg Sitting in the middle of almost 270 billion tons of coal reserves, the city of Taiyuan in northern China is an unlikely place to look for a leader in the battle for a greener future. This after all was China’s pollution poster child, a grimy industrial city of 4.3-million people that owed its growth to the coalfields of ...

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Mitsui takes 15% stake in Stone Point-backed risk-swap venture

  Bloomberg Mitsui & Co., Japan’s second-biggest trading house, agreed to purchase a 15 percent stake in New Ocean Capital, the asset manager that was founded by XL Group Ltd. and Stone Point Capital to make insurance-related bets. Mitsui also committed $100 million of investment capital to the private fund platform, Bermuda-based New Ocean said recently in a statement. XL, ...

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Dark clouds hover over Spain’s tourism future

  Madrid / AFP After basking in its best tourist summer season in 15 years, Spain now sees dark clouds on the horizon as popular destinations reach saturation point and holidaymakers are more thrifty, industry experts say. The 2016 summer season proved exceptionally good, with an influx of tourists fleeing other popular destinations recently hit by attacks, said Jose Luis ...

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