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...US Democrats are putting together a “Plan B” to keep funding for Ukraine after Senate Republicans, encouraged by former president Donald Trump, voted down a bipartisan $118bn deal that had tied support for...
...His party, Bush suggests, will now switch to Plan B: attacking the Labour opposition’s spending plans. This is the last Disrupted Times until the new year....
...It hit a high of almost $140/b in early March after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine....
...Namely, does his administration need an economic plan B? Property and trade are two indicators that have been flashing red....
...About 300 Wilko stores and distribution centres are expected to shut in the coming weeks although administrators have sold 51 sites to discounter B&M....
...Energy Source sat down with Exxon’s chief executive Darren Woods, who discussed how oil demand is at record levels despite a tepid world economy....
...Exxon forecasts oil production of 3.8mn oil-equivalent barrels a day in 2024, compared with 3.7mn b/d this year....
...ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has long contended that oil and gas will remain central to the world’s energy mix despite efforts to drive down emissions created by burning them....
...At new wells in the Permian, average oil production per drilling rig has increased to 1,319 b/d. A decade ago the figure was about 183 b/d....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Twentieth Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace. I always loved his art, I just hadn’t realised he was such a complex character....
...But the golden thread that links everything it is planning to do is that a) it costs nothing and b) it sounds more impressive than it is....
...Russia said it would extend its existing 500,000 b/d cut until the end of the year....
...B-7) who “sometimes gets ahead of himself.” (Exh. B-8)....
...It is also the first of any significant size under Darren Woods, who has led Exxon since 2017....
...“B Corp” status is the widely recognised gold standard of social and environmental performance, but the movement is starting to attract controversy, as our Big Read explains....
...Newcomer Giorgio Bulgari, whose worldwide debut of Giorgio B took place at the same event, must have felt a similar thrill....
...The Permian produces about 5.8mn barrels of oil a day, out of about 13mn b/d in total US oil production....
...“B&Q sells everything from houseplants to fitted kitchens and everything in between. What you tend to find is consumer behaviour can switch within categories....
...Darren Pollock, a portfolio manager at Cheviot, said that while an “optimistic stock market is at least in part behind Berkshire’s rise”, the gains in Apple, its successful investments in energy and Japanese...
...Kingfisher also ranked among the top payers, offering store workers at its B&Q retail chain a 9.8 per cent pay rise after increases in April and December....
...Next, JD Sports and B&M have all upgraded profit forecasts after a successful Christmas, while M&S reported its largest share of the clothing market in eight years as well as improved sales in its food division...
...American classic Our Life of a Song series celebrates “Johnny B....
...UK retailers Next and B&M reported strong December sales, overcoming fears that hard-pressed Britons might shop less this Christmas. Both companies uprated their forecasts....
...CSL’s $3.5mn single-dose treatment for haemophilia B, Hemgenix, has sparked debate over how to pay for revolutionary drugs....
...Across town, defence secretary Ben Wallace speaks at a conference organised by defence and security think-tank Rusi US: President Joe Biden begins Investing in America tour of the country to tout his administration...
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