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...China National Petroleum Corporation and QatarEnergy signed a 27-year agreement on Tuesday, under which China will purchase 4mn tonnes of LNG a year from the Gulf state....
...Families are one thing but the locals are not thrilled by the arrival of large corporations....
...Berkshire also exited its investments in payments business StoneCo, insurers Globe Life and Markel Corporation, and homebuilder DR Horton....
...The last significant US bank to fail was First Republic, which was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in early May....
...Talking to people across the industry — direct lenders, managers of business development corporations, and so on — one idea that keeps coming up is that private credit investors are protected by large equity...
...The exact make-up of the bond portfolios is unknown, but MBS analysts think the bulk of the holdings are securities that were bought by the lenders before interest rates and bond yields rose....
...Of this amount, 69 per cent is held by thousands of small and medium-sized banks that make up the bulk of US lenders....
...Additional reporting by Tsubasa Suruga in Singapore and Erwida Maulia in Jakarta A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 14 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...One of the most interesting is WireScreen, part of The Wire Digital Inc, a US-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains....
...“Of course, there have been setbacks, with the privatisation talks of [fuel retailer Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, or BPCL] stalling, for example,” she said, adding, however, that the government has...
...But trade and business groups said the new legislation’s vague wording threatened to put the bulk of China’s $500bn in annual shipments bound for the US at risk....
...Incidentally, a plethora of media outlets (inc....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 22. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Investments in energy companies such as Occidental Petroleum and liquefied natural gas export terminal operator Cheniere may benefit from soaring energy prices....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 21 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...(See Edgar Heermance’s Codes of Ethics: A Handbook published in 1924 or William C Frederick’s Corporation, Be Good! from 2006)....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 11 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Shareholders have to evolve and develop the right investor tools to scrutinise corporations. A net zero promise was an easy first step....
...For 1kg of ABS, it needs about 2kg of petroleum. Eager to wind down plastic use, Lego has been seeking for years to develop environmentally-friendly bricks....
...Outraged by the decision, he penned a four-page open letter, complete with footnotes and graphics, laying out the positive case for fossil fuels, to the head of The North Face’s parent company VF Corporation...
...Of these, the bulk was done by just two companies: Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America....
...DD’s James Fontanella-Khan takes us through how a mega-deal at Occidental Petroleum took a turn for the worse in this M&A tale....
...., Athabasca Oil Corporation, Cenovus Energy, and Japan Petroleum Exploration. DiNapoli’s office also said the fund would sell its interest in Husky Energy, which merged with Cenovus in March....
...China’s largest chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation is “verifying” reports that its co-chief executive Liang Mong-song has abruptly quit. More here....
...Those stakeholders include NYSE-listed Loews Corporation, which owns 53 per cent of Diamond, 2,500 staff who work there, and bondholders who are owed more than $2bn....
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