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...One western official said Russia had suffered “between 20,000 and 30,000 casualties over the past six months”, adding that most of them were mercenaries fighting for the Wagner private military company....
...In the meantime, Ukraine will receive two battalions of Leopard 2s and one company of British Challenger 2s, making a total of about 100 tanks....
...Corporate results Oilfield services group Schlumberger reports earnings alongside financial services company State Street....
...It also recently offloaded its Wyoming oil business to Continental Resources, the company controlled by shale billionaire Harold Hamm....
...Casualties of the so-called “short straits” that cover the 20 miles between the Kent coast and northern France include the old hovercrafts, which made their last trips in 2000, SeaCat catamarans and several...
...Continental’s deal to buy the Wyoming oil assets comes as Hamm, who owns more than 80 per cent of the company, strengthened his focus on US oil after another acquisition last year in Wyoming and a more recent...
...You use private companies that are there to make money, but then you use them to promote your strategic goals.”...
...Here’s RBC Capital Markets for the overview: We continue to have a balanced view on CNA....
...Transatlantic flights are a big part of long-haul profits, which means the big European and US airlines will be major casualties, analysts say....
...“Companies added fat to their waists.”...
...Truth is the first casualty of a British general election campaign....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...But a dispute between the EU and Switzerland, in which financial services is a casualty, is making London and continental traders even more jittery....
...The reversal of the company’s plans to list in Brussels and Amsterdam makes it the latest casualty of worsening IPO conditions as the global market sell-off takes hold....
...Continental will split out its older power train business from the rest of the company, echoing moves by Delphi and Autoliv to hive off “old world” technologies....
...For good reason: continental or global-scale production is more efficient than national-scale. The upshot is to be careful what you wish for....
...Simon Kirby, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, is stepping down just 19 months after taking the post, becoming the first high-profile casualty of the FTSE engineer’s latest restructuring....
...Chubb, the US’s largest property & casualty insurance business by market capitalisation, already has a big office in Paris. The company said it would continue to have a big presence in London....
...He believes that the deal will allow Axa to shift from a reliance on life insurance and grab a stronger position in commercial property & casualty insurance....
...As hurricane Irma bears down on the continental United States, thoughts are rightly with the homeowners and rescue workers in its path....
...European companies....
...The Treasury has recently started sanctioning Chinese companies that help North Korea develop nuclear weapons....
...The insurer, which is more than 200 years old, has overhauled its operations in recent years to focus on property-casualty cover, as well as group benefits and mutual funds....
...This high profile casualty of the trade war won’t go unnoticed among multinational companies. Garry Young, NIESR Chelsea will win the cup....
...The new study showed the main bat casualties were two common species, the common pipistrelle and the soprano pipistrelle, tiny bats with reddish-brown coats and blackish-brown ears....
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