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...Witness the success of Engine No 1 with ExxonMobil in May, or the ruling against Shell in the Dutch courts the same month. Yet Third Point’s opportunistic stratagem should not succeed....
...Viking held 1.5 per cent of the company’s shares at year-end and Paulson 1.4 per cent, according to regulatory filings....
...At lunchtime, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.7 per cent, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.1 per cent and Japan’s Nikkei 225 was down 2 per cent....
...In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite was down 1.4 per cent and the Shenzhen Composite was down 1.2 per cent....
...The resource-heavy FTSE 100 surrendered a 0.8 per cent gain, closing 0.2 per cent lower, led by declines for Royal Dutch Shell, BG and BP....
...Nifty down -0.04% at 5,907 Currencies €/$ 1.36 (1.36) $/¥ 97.10 (97.24) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.18 at 109.18 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.30 at 103.61 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -1.50 at 1,316...
...Sir Robert Wilson, former chairman of BG Group, will chair the company. Jim Hackett, former chairman and chief executive of Anadarko Petroleum, will also sit on the board....
...Gains Emerging-market stocks rose, sending the benchmark index to a two-week high, after a gauge of Chinese manufacturing expanded and lower oil prices boosted shares from India to Turkey. http://bloom.bg...
...With increasing volumes of gas produced by the likes of BP and BG diverted to the domestic market, where prices are fixed at low levels, companies’ debts are rising to alarming levels....
...(Bloomberg) http://bloom.bg/Zhz4ZV Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.58% at 1,033 Europe FTSE down -0.09% at 6,452 RTS down -0.01% at 1,387 Warsaw Wig down -0.77% at 43,542 FTSE 300 Eurotop...
...election, hoping the country will win a new deal with the IMF and push through reforms in return. http://on.ft.com/TVTnMm Tiger Asia Admits Guilt in $60 Million Court Settlement Tiger Asia Management LLC...
...The company will build two to three 1,300MW plants at each of Horizon’s two sites – at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire – with plans for the first unit to be operational in the first half...
...plans to sell Barclays Plc shares valued at about 771 million pounds (US$1.24bn) as the sovereign wealth fund disposes of its remaining warrants in the UK bank. http://bloom.bg/V77AZG China successfully...
.../10Gowql Qatar disposes of Barclays warrants Qatar Holding LLC plans to sell Barclays Plc shares valued at about 771 million pounds (US$1.24bn) as the sovereign wealth fund disposes of its remaining warrants...
...(Bloomberg) BG picks successor to Chapman: Chris Finlayson, a former Royal Dutch Shell executive and now head of BG Advance – which manages exploration, capital projects, IT and technology – will take the...
...BG closed up 1.8 per cent to £15.19. A trading statement showing healthier than expected fund inflows lifted Aberdeen Asset Management 4.4 per cent to 260¾p....
...A European-Argentine consortium is to invest $1.3bn over five years in two natural gasfields in the south of Bolivia....
...- Vodafone in £1.25bn tax settlement with HMRC. From the Independent on Sunday, - Pinnacle and HSBC near to £600m deal. - Anadarko looks at onshore oil....
...BG Group was up 2.6 per cent to £12.67, Tullow Oil rose 1.6 per cent to £11.97 and Cairn Energy was ahead 5.4 per cent to 669½p....
...BG Group, up 1 per cent to £12.02½, was once again connected to the rumour, along with smaller targets such as Australia’s Woodside Petroleum....
...The example of British Gas, spliced into National Grid, BG Group and Centrica, is cited as a success to be emulated....
...BG Group paced the oil stocks, up 1.7 per cent to £10.49¼ after being added to Goldman Sachs’ “buy” list. The broker cited BG’s “outstanding pipeline of new projects”....
...The index closed down 1.7 per cent, or 70.61 points, at 4,096.4 points....
...The Bidens went on to purchase Paradigm later that year through another holding company, BG Equity Partners LLC, for the much-reduced price-tag of $8.1m. Their hedge fund troubles were not yet over....
...With 24 event suites and 165 smaller meeting rooms, Old Trafford can cater for most events, whether an annual meeting for 1,200, a banquet for 1,000, a vehicle launch, a training course for 30 or 40 or just...
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