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Brexit grilling – UK climate minister Claire Perry faces lawmakers in the House of Lords’ cross-party EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Roughly a year since her last appearance in front of the panel, she will be asked about what Brexit means for carbon pricing in both ‘deal’ and ‘no deal’ scenarios. Read Carbon Pulse’s take on the committee’s previous hearing, when experts warned of the ‘incredibly tight timetable’ for the UK to set up its own ETS by 2021.

All three indexes registered gains for the week, with both the Dow and Nasdaq posting a ninth week of increases. The number of New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq stocks hitting 52-week highs hit 367, the most since mid-September and outnumbered those hitting year lows by the widest margin in six months.

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Roma midfielder Nicolo Zaniolo has been approached by Mino Raiola, but has turned down an offer to work with the agent, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.

First, it will lower the fund’s assumed rate of return, from 8% to Wooden’s “more realistic” 6.9%. It will also extend the funding window (the projected timeframe to reach full funding) more than a decade, from 2032 to 2049. The plans’ funding methodology will change from its current percent of a plan member’s pay to a level dollar amortization, to be phased in gradually over five years.

"As business investment falls, there will be more people leaving the state, or jobs will be lost, and people will move interstate again as a result of that," CCIWA chief economist Rick Newnham said.

An outside sales call—where the company representative visits the customer—is more expensive than an inside sales call. An inside sales call, including cold or planned calls, can cost 40 to 90 percent less.

Airbus is the other big name in the commercial airline space, both Boeing and Airbus each own about 43% and 45% of the global commercial airline industry, respectively, by revenue, with the rest of the market share owned mainly by Bombardier and Irkut. While Airbus continues to outpace Boeing in terms of overall deliveries, Boeing’s latest wide-body aircraft, the 777, is doing much better than the Airbus A380, and with the introduction of Boeing’s 777x, we expect Boeing’s wide-body sales to perform better than those of Airbus, and this should translate into slightly increased market share in 2019. This is mainly owing to the Emirates, who will decide whether or not to switch to the new 777x model being offered by Boeing. Should this happen it would effectively end the the A380 program, and help push Boeing’s market share to 45%.

The news comes in the wake of Mastercard already having had an application – marked by partnerships with a number of other Chinese firms via consortium – in place with China’s central bank for a year.

“Revenue growth is slowest among major Chinese internet companies, even with its feed initiative,” David Dai, a Bernstein analyst, said in a report. He estimates Baidu’s share of the ad market has dwindled to 21 percent versus Alibaba’s 36 percent. “Longer term, we see opportunities with DuerOS and Apollo but would wait for clearer signs of both segments taking off.”

For a short trip across the Ditch, it's easy enough to just book it yourself. But if you're going further abroad, or looking for a cruise, travel agents definitely have the edge in that area.

So what caused that one absence? "I turned down an engagement to be a Miss World China judge when my daughter Lisa was visiting me in Sydney from Florence," she says. "She is more important."