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Failed US plutonium project ends in fire sale

Bloomberg Need some parts for a nuclear plant? The government has a few to spare. Electrical transformers, motors, and pieces of special glove boxes designed to safely handle radioactive material are available as the government auctions off equipment from a now-abandoned nuclear project that was supposed to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors. The online fire sale …

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Bond market eyes gathering crowds for clues on path of rates

Bloomberg As social-distancing measures are relaxed across the US, Wall Street is searching in some unconventional places for clues about where interest-rate markets are headed. The rally in US Treasuries buckled to risk-on sentiment earlier this month on signs of progress in the reopening of businesses around the country and a turnaround in economic data. But interspersed with those announcements …

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Investors in Canada turn to sustainable investing amid virus

Bloomberg Sustainable investing is exploding in Canada as the coronavirus and an anti-racism movement highlight long-standing social inequalities. Net inflows into Canadian exchange-traded funds that track companies focusing on environmental, social and governance factors has surged to C$740 million ($544 million). That has already outstripped the C$200 million invested in 2018 and the C$142 million last year, excluding seed capital, …

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