Hints and tips:
...Crude truths Do you know your Druzhba from your Adria, and can you tell a barrel of Urals blend from Brent?...
...Tej Arora and Katherine Chan, both managing directors within Blackstone Alternative Asset Management’s special situations unit, have quit, per Bloomberg....
...US Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked by reporters in a roundtable last week if removing the Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports was now under consideration given that the US consumer price index...
...The global oil benchmark Brent crude slid 0.3 per cent to $68.66 a barrel....
...Electra has a new activist CEO, Tate & Lyle profits have recovered, Brent crude is back above $50 a barrel....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox is stepping down rather sooner as chief executive ofAlliance Trust Investments....
...Alliance Trust, the big investment trust whose boss Katherine Garrett-Cox was recently humbled in a tussle with an activist, has bought an execution-only brokerage from Brewin Dolphin for £14m....
...The position of chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox looks precarious. Poundland is raising £50m through a placing to help pay for the acquisition of 99p Stores....
...This despite the activities of talented female fund managers such as Anne Richards, Sue Noffke and…er…Katherine Garrett-Cox....
...Chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox, who has come under fire for her investment record, may face a rocky ride at Alliance’s annual meeting today....
...The price of Brent crude surged above $114 late last week for the first time in nine months....
...ICE May Brent gained $2.75 at $104.50 a barrel....
...The benchmark Brent contract is now about 5 per cent below the record $66.85 attained on Monday....
...“The (Inventory) numbers were very bearish,” said Katherine Spector, an energy analyst at JPMorgan in New York....
...IPE Brent crude for September delivery settled up 67 cents at $40.64 a barrel,its highest level sincehitting a record $40.95 abarrel on October 10 1990 during the lead-up to the Gulf war....
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