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...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...Guyana was a champion of climate action until Exxon discovered oil. (NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...ConocoPhillips boss Ryan Lance isn’t too perturbed, however, as he shells out $13.3bn to create the world’s largest independent oil and gas producer....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Her close relationship with the Saudi fund’s chief, Yasir al-Rumayyan, has raised concerns among some officials....
...Saudi Aramco has hired Wells Fargo banker Robert Fernandez to manage its relationship with banks after the oil company completed the world’s biggest share sale....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...The FT reported last week that the PIF was trying to secure funds to bolster its coffers after plans to raise $100bn from the listing of the Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Saudi Aramco were indefinitely...
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...- And Nick Rowe arguing against Borio et al’s objection to helicopter money....
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...As Ryan Lance, chief executive of ConocoPhillips, the largest US exploration and production company, puts it, the upturn will come, “it’s just you can’t bet on it coming quickly . . ....
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...Suhail al-Mazroui, energy minister for the United Arab Emirates, said US shale companies and other producers who had created an oil glut should “respect the needs of the market”....
...Eventually, he hopes, the car companies and even oil companies will embrace fuel choice. He sees the barriers more as problems of corporate inertia and ignorance than of opposing interests....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...(Financial Times) EU proposals for Libor et al to be unveiled today: “[B]enchmarks that are deemed to be “critical” would be overseen by a college of national supervisors led by the Paris-based European...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...In the US, Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and LyondellBasell are among the companies that are expanding or looking at expanding their petrochemical capacity to take advantage of...
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