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...Smart reads Big oil’s secret weapon In 2017, a cluster of pro-fracking and natural gas groups began to speak out online....
...Fitch on Tuesday gave Adnoc a standalone credit rating of double A plus, which the rating agency said sat at the upper end of its spectrum for oil and gas companies....
...The banks are helping them and “they have partnerships with private equity firms and asset management firms”. But he adds: “The question is the decision-making....
...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)....
...Visibility on the outlook could increase materially over the summer if NG reaches a settlement on a rate plan for its downstate NY gas utilities....
...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....
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...Not months.” - Zion President, Dustin Guinn #israel $zn — Zion Oil & Gas, Inc....
...And Al Gore, the former US vice-president, said companies can “no longer ignore the sustainability revolution”....
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...Big US bank JPMorgan Chase has warned of growing stresses in its oil and gas portfolio, saying it would pump up its reserves for loan losses by about 60 per cent in the first quarter....
...At the same time, Silicon Valley and the shale gas energy revolution are showing, once again, the power of the private sector to drive growth in the US....
...One interviewer even questioned his intellectual capacity when he asked whether there was any point to gas stations....
...The combination of the oil price collapse and the continuing conflict in Ukraine proved particularly toxic for investors in Russian equities....
...Is it time then to have grown-up conversation in powered up circles about the merits of forging an international energy cartel of Bretton Woods proportions? We think so....
...Linking vast Gazprom controlled gas fields in east Siberia with the Russian Pacific, the 4,000km pipeline will feed gas to domestic consumers and to the Chinese border....
...2) But energy and private equity do, according to Marcel van Poecke, managing director of Carlyle International Energy Partners. “I have never seen a market with so many good assets for sale . . ....
...Markets: Asia-Pacific equities are recovering thanks to a US manufacturing report that showed factories are humming in the world’s biggest economy....
...Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has bought NYSE Euronext’s 12 per cent stake in the gas-rich state’s stock exchange, ending a four-year partnership between the two bourses....
...“I thought: by the time I’ve got all that organised, I’ll be ready to have a different career as an oil-and-gas lawyer....
...But Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, this month said his airline was not interested in buying the Bankia stake....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...A plan by Qatar Holding, one of gas-rich Qatar’s main state investment funds, to seek a credit rating will cast more light on its multibillion-dollar international investments after questions over some of...
...Read from the bottom up… And here’s some earlier reporting from the FT’s Alex Barker et al: Eurozone finance ministers on Monday night rebuffed a deal presented by private owners of Greek debt as a “maximum...
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