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...In 1948, Project Rand (a contraction of “research and development”) was born to connect military planning with American scientific discovery....
...Phase 3 trials of Sputnik V began in September on 30,000 volunteers....
...Since December a handful of lawsuits have been brought against Venezuela and its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, over unpaid debts. One of the most recent comes from Siemens-owned Dresser Rand....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...In a statement, Dresser-Rand said it was monitoring the situation in Venezuela, including the effects of recent sanctions imposed by the US government against PDVSA....
...It also allows Kaeser to bury the sins of Siemens’ $7.6bn 2014 acquisition of Dresser-Rand, which will be part of the gas and power business being spun out....
...South Africa's rand also makes it into the top five....
...In early trading in London, the South African rand, hit hard by new data showing the country’s economy had contracted for the first time since 2009, resumed a drop that has left it the worst-performing emerging...
...One country can unleash mayhem by hacking another country’s information systems and infrastructure; this, says the Rand Corporation, is an increasingly brazen threat to global stability....
...On his own watch, he got €3bn for a half-share in a domestic appliance venture, spun off Osram Licht and rushed into Dresser Rand just as the oil price turned....
...It agreed to pay $7.6bn for Dresser-Rand, which makes compressors for the oil and gas industry, in September 2014, just as prices were starting to collapse....
...It acquired Dresser Rand, a Texan oil equipment manufacturer, last year. The deal was controversial amid falling oil prices....
...He also has to show Siemens can make a success of several major acquisitions, including the $7.6bn purchase of Dresser Rand, the US oilfield services company, which was unveiled in 2014, shortly before the...
...And its pricey acquisition of oil services company Dresser Rand, just as the oil price turned, remains a concern....
...For example, US regulatory filings show that Zaoui & Co received $22m for its role in advising Dresser-Rand, the US oilfield equipment maker with a large French presence, on its $7.6bn sale to Germany’s...
...The timing of the Dresser Rand deal was not of his choosing because Switzerland’s Sulzer had made a bid for the US company, and the $7.6bn price tag has also attracted criticism that Siemens overpaid....
...In the emerging market world, the dollar was up 2.2 per cent against the South African rand, 1.7 per cent against the Mexican peso and 0.6 per cent versus the Brazilian rand — the latter also unsettled by...
...Siemens closed the $7.8bn acquisition of Dresser-Rand, the US oilfield equipment maker, at the end of June, but analysts continue to question the cost and timing of the deal....
...Siemens wants to acquire Dresser-Rand to help it profit more from the US shale boom....
...Siemens, the German engineering group, has defended its $7.6bn acquisition of US oilfield equipment company Dresser-Rand, saying the long-term rationale remained intact even as slumping oil prices threaten...
...Siemens closed the $7.8bn acquisition of Dresser-Rand, the US oilfield equipment maker, at the end of June but analysts continue to question the cost and timing of the deal....
...The oil price drop has since obliged oil companies to slash investment budgets and Dresser-Rand to cut jobs....
...That nearly matched the $29m that Morgan Stanley earned working with Dresser-Rand....
...Last year it built up a position in the US oil services company Dresser Rand before it was bought by Germany’s Siemens....
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