BlackRock’s Giant Bet on Infrastructure
Summary
Cash-strapped governments have also sought private money to help finance fiber broadband, data centers, green energy projects (which fit into BlackRock’s push to invest in climate-related assets), upgrades to airports and roads and more. Global Infrastructure’s chairman and C.E.O., the Nigeria-born deal maker Bayo Ogunlesi, is the lead director at Goldman Sachs (and is name-checked by the Nigerian music star Burna Boy). That’s after Western nations launched another volley of airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen who have been attacking commercial vessels traversing the vital Red Sea passage. Jeremy Robb, senior director of economic and industry insights at Cox Automotive, told The Times that almost 1.2 million E.V.s were sold in the U.S. last year, and sales were up 40 percent in the last three months of 2023 from the same period in 2022. Drawn from both A.I.-driven analyses of data and a survey of more than 3,400 C-suite executives, some of the key findings from the consulting firm’s research include: • None About 88 percent of corporate leaders predict business-altering changes to come for their organizations this year.