The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to 576,000, a post-COVID low and a hopeful sign that layoffs are easing as the economy recovers from the pandemic recession.
Exelon's six Illinois nuclear plants provided more than half of the electricity generated in the state in 2019, with Byron and Dresden responsible for about a fifth of the total, according to federal records.
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A potential restructuring at one of China’s largest state-run asset managers of distressed debt -- China Huarong Asset Management Co. -- is stoking fresh concern about the labyrinthine structures that the nation’s borrowers use to issue and guarantee offshore debt. The so-called keepwell provisions are supposed to protect a bondholder in case the mainland company runs into financial trouble.