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...Morgan Stanley cited both the prospect of an Iran deal and the uptick in US drilling as it reduced its third quarter Brent price forecast, from $70 a barrel to $65-70. What next?...
...“I don’t see ESG as somehow an enemy of shareholders — this isn’t Milton Friedman versus socialism — it’s more a matter of what really is in the long-term interest of the firm,” he observed....
...CME and ICE battle fiercely over market share in highly active oil and gas contracts such as WTI and Brent crude....
...Oil came back strongly, with West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, rising 2.9 per cent to $33.07 a barrel, while international marker Brent gained 2.6 per cent to $35.29 a barrel....
...This morning, Brent crude, the international benchmark was up 1.1 per cent at $33.38 a barrel after falling 1.1 per cent last week, while West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, was 1.2 per cent higher at...
...It’s an old-school, Milton Friedman-like monetarist perspective, unfashionable today. QE’s Keynesian rationales and Austrian critiques are far more popular. Fine by me!...
...(FT, NYT) Geopolitics is back With signs that the global economy is integrating more slowly than before, Ed Luce wonders whether Thomas Friedman’s “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” – wherein...
...Closing Quotes Ed Luce – The end of the Golden Arches doctrine “Nearly two decades ago, Thomas Friedman came up with his ‘Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention’....
...Ann Friedman argues that rather than putting the burden on women to negotiate, we should be asking more of employers : “asking women to take responsibility for closing the pay gap with their ace negotiating...
...down -24.68 (-0.36%) at 6,815 CAC 40 down -29.96 (-0.66%) at 4,477 Dax down -25.95 (-0.27%) at 9,581 Currencies €/$ 1.38 (1.38) $/¥ 101.95 (101.85) £/$ 1.69 (1.68) €/£ 0.8161 (0.8156) Commodities ($) Brent...
...Alex Friedman of UBS, who coined the term, suggests that Abegeddon could await if Japan succeeds in sparking inflation, but not growth....
...The exact value of the offers could not be obtained, but Hellman & Friedman has been targeting a price of between $2bn and $2.5bn....
...Brian Friedman, chairman of the bank’s executive committee, also received $39m worth of restricted stock....
...In the oil market, Brent crude closed above $116 a barrel, a three-month high (Reuters). Cisco earnings of $0.47 a share beat estimates by one cent....
...Adena Friedman, who was chief financial officer of Nasdaq before taking up the same role at Carlyle in 2011, introduced her former employers to the technology investment team at Carlyle....
...Comment, analysis and other offerings from Thursday’s FT, Brent Scowcroft: Obama must broker a new Mideast peace The ‘Arab Spring’ that is flowering in fits and starts in most countries of the Middle East...
...Brent oil is above $120 a barrel; copper prices remain near recent highs, and food price inflation is setting new records....
...This crisis has been dealt with from monetarist policies – the main support for the economy could have been scripted by Milton Friedman.”...
...On the other hand, it could be argued, much has changed since Friedman penned that piece....
...Oft-cited examples include the Brent Spar affair in the mid-1990s, when Royal Dutch Shell suffered a public backlash over its plans to sink an oil platform at sea, and Monsanto’s failure to anticipate European...
...There were critics of this approach, including my good friend Brent Scowcroft, who believes that such an Asian balance of power paradigm is both antique and dangerous in the current era....
...The first was the rise in the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil from US$54 in January 2007 to US$134 in July 2008....
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