Financial Times Article Rating

US investment funds pull $13.3bn from BlackRock in anti-ESG campaign

Mar 24, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -48% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Texas, Florida, Missouri and other GOP-led states followed suit with anti-ESG initiatives and divestments.
43% : The outflows started in 2022 after West Virginia state treasurer Riley Moore included BlackRock on the nation's first list of financial firms deemed to boycott fossil fuel companies.
39% : In Texas, local businesses have raised concerns about the state's "Fair Access" laws, which call for the state and local governments to divest from financial firms that are considered hostile to fossil fuels or firearms.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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