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...The Gym Group, the UK’s only listed gym operator, PureGym and Life Time are also returning to 2019 capacity. With fitness booming, analysts and operators say there is room to grow....
...The studio pulled the picture, but President Barack Obama got into the act and called for greater national resolve — and before you knew it, The Interview was being released online and at a smaller group...
...This is not the Airbus group’s only interest in speed....
...Described by Embraer as the “only new multi-mission medium airlift in the market”, the KC-390 has many of the capabilities of the C-130....
...But last October the AAR decided to issue a new standard for tank cars in the face of slow decision making by regulators....
...The AAR also noted that pipeline expansions had hit rail shipments of crude....
...The group has spoken to O2 and Vodafone in the UK, according to three people familiar with the discussions....
...Rosneft paid AAR $28bn for their share in TNK-BP this year as Russia’s state oil company consolidated control over the oil industry....
...(Wall Street Journal) Rosneft finalizes deal to buy TNK-BP stake from AAR: The state oil major has reportedly finalized a deal to buy 50 per cent of Russian peer TNK-BP from the AAR consortium for $28bn...
...He said it could maintain the status quo, remaining in its troublesome alliance with AAR; it could stay in TNK-BP, but with Rosneft as a partner, rather than AAR; it could sell its stake to AAR, or itself...
...oligarchs known as AAR....
...* Indian growth slows to 5.3% * Brazil GDP disappoints * Thai market comes of age with energy group’s $3bn rights issue * Rosneft and AAR may sign TNK-BP deal in December * Carlos Slim takes aim at Netflix...
...But under another scenario, AAR could beat BP out of the exit, leaving the UK group stuck in the joint venture it planned to quit. There are also hazards in the new arrangements with Rosneft....
...Bankers said both groups should be able to raise financing for a deal, but the eventual outcome would more likely be determined by political considerations....
...But a series of bitter disputes with its partners, a group of oligarchs known as Alfa-Access-Renova, or AAR, came to overshadow the company’s success....
...Rosneft, BP and AAR played moves reminiscent of a Russian chess battle as Rosneft manoeuvred around AAR’s oligarchs to shape the world’s largest listed oil company....
...The UK oil group called time on the venture this summer after a bitter dispute with its Russian partners, known as AAR, flared up over its attempt last year to clinch a strategic alliance with Rosneft, which...
...Meanwhile, BP’s share of TNK-BP’s proven reserves is about 4.5bn barrels of oil equivalent, or a quarter of the UK group’s total....
...There has been speculation the company could soon forge a new exploration alliance with Rosneft similar to the one that was blocked in the courts by AAR last year....
...His attempt as BP chief to clinch a $16bn share swap deal with Rosneft last year was blocked in the courts by AAR....
...But the agony continues for Man Group, the UK’s largest quoted hedge fund group, whose shares dropped 10 per cent on a duff third-quarter trading statement....
...AAR, however, has denied any connection to the latest minority shareholder lawsuit....
...A person close to AAR declined to comment, saying only that if such proposals had been made, the shareholder group expected to review them at a TNK-BP board meeting set to start in Cyprus on Thursday....
..., Rosneft and AAR,” he said....
...The tribunal extended the temporary injunction against the share swap over AAR’s claims that it violates their shareholder agreement with the UK oil group....
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