Hints and tips:
...(Bloomberg $) CreditSights writes that there aren’t many easy options for Elliott — calling to mind its Duke Energy campaign, which basically ended in a stalemate — but that the activist investor could push...
...Lane is a director of NextEra Energy and TJX Companies and Vena has worked at Union Pacific as a senior adviser. A third board member is also set to be added in conjunction with DE Shaw....
...NextEra Energy has probably been the most aggressive bidder for regulated coal-fired utilities, and might be able to buy Duke itself at some point....
...CEO rules out hostile M&A after offer to Duke Energy (Reuters)...
...Iain Conn will step down as chief executive of Centrica, Britain’s biggest energy supplier, after next year’s annual meeting....
...The proximity could also reduce the time and energy cost of travel....
...Wilma was at school with a man called Don Blankenship, who went on to become chief executive of Massey Energy, a coal operator....
...Duke Energy, a utility there, plans to host eclipse watchers at a South Carolina nuclear power plant on Monday, serving hot dogs and ice cream and playing songs such as “Blue Moon” and “Here Comes the Sun...
...David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, praised Mr Trump’s latest remarks....
...CTG, for instance, has invested R$23bn ($7bn) in a portfolio that includes 17 hydropower plants, some of which it bought from Duke Energy of the US, 11 wind farms and one trading company....
...Most big producers, such as Duke Energy and NRG, have already made big, multibillion dollars bets both on gas and renewable sources like wind and solar....
...Utilities led the benchmark index, with the S&P 500 utility index rising 2.5 per cent, buoyed by a 3.3 per cent rise from Duke Energy to $75.27....
...In June it helped finance a Kentucky mine from which it will buy coal. Last month it bought a royalty interest in oil and gas wells across New Mexico and Colorado....
...Stocks as diverse as Philip Morris, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Duke Energy, Intel and Chevron have all delivered great performances....
...Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, which relies on customers driving to its “big box” stores, said its shoppers were “not yet” feeling the effects of an economic recovery....
...The company last April beat Duke Energy and others to buy the German group’s US supply companies for more than $6.7bn in cash – the US utility’s largest deal to date....
...These pilots and others, such as the Duke Energy Envision Centre in Erlanger, Kentucky, a demonstration smart-grid-equipped “home” built by Duke Energy, the power company, with the consultancy Kema, are...
...In the utility sector, Duke Energy fell 1.2 per cent to $17.58 after agreeing to buy Progress Energy for $13.7bn over the weekend, a move that would create the largest power utility company in the US....
...Duke Energy was among those companies competing in the final stages of the competition to buy the Kentucky utility from Eon. Duke shares rose Wednesday by 4 per cent....
...As the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrive for their visits to the United Arab Emirates and Oman, British businesses are hoping that trade will receive a significant boost....
...Duke Energy of North Carolina and PPL of Pennsylvania are possible buyers, according to SparkSpread, an industry news service....
...Brought up on a small farm in Kentucky, she was the first member of her family ever to go to university....
...Duke Amaniampong, a California-based lawyer working for the Ghanaian investigation told the Financial Times that Ghana’s attorney-general had accumulated “enough evidence of criminal culpability to bring...
...This helped the consumer staples sector perform better than any other on the benchmark S&P 500 index, despite Mr Duke saying there would be no quick end to the recession....
...Before joining Simmons in 2004, he worked at Enron and Duke Energy. 2008 stock pick: Peabody Energy because it will benefit from the higher price of coal, specifically through its Australian operations....
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