Sentences with phrase «ever global accord»

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That would be the biggest ever buyback for Citi, surpassing a $ 15 billion buyback announced in 2005 before the financial crisis, according to Richard Peterson of S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Global shale resources are vast enough to cover more than a decade of oil consumption, according to the first - ever U.S. assessment of reserves from Russia to Argentina.

(Reuters)- Blackstone Group LP has secured $ 17 billion from investors for its latest global private equity fund in just seven months, the biggest so - called first close of a buyout fund ever, according to people familiar with the matter.

The surprise hit of the year, having the best opening ever for an R - rated movie ($ 132.4 million) and earning over $ 780 million at the global box office, was also the most illegally downloaded movie of 2016, according to TorrentFreak.

Beyoncé 105 - minute set on Saturday attracted 458,000 simultaneous global viewers at its peak, ranking it as most viewed Coachella performance ever, according to a YouTube spokeswoman.

The sale might be «the largest ever liquidation of crypto to fiat,» according to Thomas Lee, head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors.

That's the most ever, according to the IIF, the Washington - based lobby for big global banks and insurers.

Disinformation, according to Stockwell, is more important than ever because the United States is now implementing low - intensity - conflict strategy on a global basis and is actively working to destabilize one - third of the world's underdeveloped countries.

Atrial fibrillation, long considered the most common condition leading to an irregular heartbeat, is a growing and serious global health problem, according to the first study ever to estimate the condition's worldwide prevalence, death rates and societal costs.

According to Laxminarayan, «The UN meeting is the best opportunity there's ever been to set hard global targets and develop a structure to ensure accountability toward sustainable access to effective antimicrobials for the world's population.»

If the world ever does reach an accord to cap CO2 emissions, the PurGen model might go global and the carbon might go back underground.

The average amount of heat absorbed and trapped in the upper ocean over the past year was also higher than ever seen before, according to Deke Arndt, chief of the global monitoring branch of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

According to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global fish consumption has reached its highest level ever.

Canadian investors are more proactive and optimistic about their financial future than their counterparts in the U.S. and elsewhere, according to the first - ever Global Investor Pulse Survey from BlackRock Inc..

They attracted $ 15.3 billion in inflows in April, the second highest monthly inflows ever recorded — only the $ 17 billion record in October 2014 was greater — while equity ETFs attracted $ 10 billion following two straight months of outflows, according to State Street Global Advisors.

Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements — the accords after the Second World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern international financial system — America's trading partners have been left to cope with the impact of Washington's control and, in more recent years, the hegemony of the dollar as the dominant global reserve currency.

The global tourism community is «more united than ever» according to United Nations World Tourism Organisation general secretary Taleb Rifai.

Global annual sales of postwar and contemporary art increased by 11 percent in 2013, with a highest - ever auction tally of 4.9 billion euros ($ 6.7 billion), according to a report published in March by the European Fine Art Foundation.

Number one is Southern Co., which annually releases 172 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, according to the first - ever inventory of the world's 50,000 power stations, conducted by the Centre for Global Development, a Washington - based policy think tank.

Most scenarios that meet the 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) cap on global warming endorsed by world leaders require a 40 percent to 70 percent reduction in heat - trapping gases by 2050 from 2010 levels, according to the third installment of the UN's biggest - ever study of climate change.

As more states realize the potential of solar energy, and solar - plus - storage deployments gain traction in both residential and utility - scale projects, approximately 106 gigawatts of new PV is expected to go live in 2018, making this year the global solar market's first - ever triple - digit year, according to GTM Research.

Recharge news Ever - increasing competitiveness and emergence of important new markets to help drive wind past 60GW of annual installations, says report Annual wind power additions will flatline in 2018 but see «dramatic growth» from next year, buoyed by ever more competitive power prices and the emergence of major new markets, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEver - increasing competitiveness and emergence of important new markets to help drive wind past 60GW of annual installations, says report Annual wind power additions will flatline in 2018 but see «dramatic growth» from next year, buoyed by ever more competitive power prices and the emergence of major new markets, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWever more competitive power prices and the emergence of major new markets, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.

According to Beck, the modern era — technological, industrial society — had exposed society to ever greater, global risks, and that our awareness of these risks and the scepticism of modernity's achievements marked the beginning of a new historical era, in which this awareness of risks and their amelioration would become the basis of politics.

2010 proved to have the highest measured global surface temperatures ever according to some data sets, but alas, still the line of questioning persists.

The most recent report was published in 2014 and represents «the most comprehensive and authoritative synthesis of knowledge about global climate - change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability ever generated,» according to a statement by President Obama's science advisor when the report was published less than four years ago.

Ever since then the global cloudiness and albedo have been increasing according to the Earthshine project.

According to Ho, if the past changes are a result of global warming, it can be assumed that in future more catastrophic tropical cyclones will strike East Asia than ever before.

Beyond India, Planet Earth saw its warmest - ever global temperatures in April, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The European Commission imposed $ 4.09 billion in fines in 2016 — its largest total ever — driving up overall global cartel fines figures by over a billion dollars for the year compared with 2015, according to Allen & Overy's Global Cartel Enforcement Report, published global cartel fines figures by over a billion dollars for the year compared with 2015, according to Allen & Overy's Global Cartel Enforcement Report, published Global Cartel Enforcement Report, published today.

According to commercial real estate services firm CBRE, Chinese outbound capital flows into global commercial real estate markets have exceeded $ 10 billion in a year for the first time ever.

«More analysis and research are deemed necessary to assess future adjustments while also considering potential market conditions in an ever - changing global economy that could impact our efforts,» according to a mortgagee letter from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

According to Jon Gray, Blackstone global head of real estate, this is the largest capital investment Blackstone has ever made in repositioning an existing property.