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...But is that a systemic risk? I’d say probably not. One good read A carbon tax by other means....
...On another occasion, I got chatting to a Japanese woman who turned out to be a) the translator for my session the following day and b) a near neighbour of mine in London....
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...Output will drop 1.4m b/d by the third quarter of next year, Goldman predicted this week. RS Energy Group, a consultancy, said 700,000 b/d would be lost this year and 1.1m in 2021....
...“They’re going to want to go from city A to city B, nonstop.” This will mark the end of large planes, such as the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380....
...Sidley Austin has hired Parthiv Rishi as a partner in its global M&A and private equity practice in Singapore. Rishi joins from Linklaters....
...In the case of the single B sector, the absence of EM&M entails a tightening of 50bp since triple C and single B traded at their narrowest spread in late-April....
...Last week traders and producers exported a record 3.8m b/d of US crude oil, data released on Wednesday showed....
...Saudi Arabia’s March production was 440,000 b/d below the cap agreed in December, according to S&P Global Platts....
...1.5m b/d — less than 2 per cent of global demand....
...Since May it has raised output by roughly 700,000 b/d to 10.7m b/d, with Mr Falih promising output will keep rising next month....
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...Saudi Arabia has led steep cuts from the group, with production dropping from 10.5m b/d in December....
...Harbour Energy is a joint venture between private equity company EIG Global Energy Partners LLC and Noble Group, Asia’s largest commodity trader by volume, which competes with Trafigura for so-called offtake...
...US exports of processed condensate reached 126,000 b/d in June, from zero a year before, according to Clipper Data....
...The event closed with the premiere of an original song by the R&B artist The Weeknd. The reaction from the crowd was muted. It had not been a great presentation....
...But if you thought this was a modern IT-inspired line of thought, you’d be wrong....
...We employed a curve in which the average grade was a B+, and only a tiny number of students received grades below a C. I told the class this, but it had no effect on the students’ mood....
...Fereidun Fesharaki, head of the Facts Global Energy consultancy, said Iranian exports to Asia could climb by 200 too 400,000 b/d very quickly, if restrictions on insuring Iranian ships were eased as a result...
...Syria’s production, estimated at about 50,000 b/d today, is marginal in the context of 90m b/d of global supply....
...For the first time since 2009, oil production slipped below 2m barrels a day in midyear, with well-connected gangs believed to be stealing about 100,000 b/d....
...Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It is time that world policy makers recognise that a robust, easy-to-access and dependable financial markets infrastructure is a global public good....
...Global biofuel production dropped to 1.819m barrels a day, from 1.822m b/d in 2010....
...Soozhana Choi, oil analyst at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, reckons that about 1.2m b/d have closed since the beginning of the year, “which would narrow the global refinery surplus and imply a healthier 2012...
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