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...The revision comes after the company pledged to devote a higher proportion of spending to oil and gas last year, and other oil groups such as BP have slowed their retreat from oil....
...That’s really problematic for the rest of us,” said John Duncan, co-lead for the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, a group of more than 200 companies including Walmart, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal...
...“We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas and instead invest in them adequately, reflecting realistic demand assumptions,” he said....
...to co-invest with them. . . ....
...Also joining the board are Kevin Howell, former head of NRG’s Texas business, Alex Pourbaix, former chief executive of Canadian oil group Cenovus Energy, and Marcie Zlotnik, co-founder of Texas retail electricity...
...Blackstone in September became the first private equity group to be included in the S&P 500 index and its rivals Apollo Global and KKR are hoping they are not far behind....
...Law firm Skadden has appointed Rich Youle, co-head of its private equity group, as head of its London office, replacing Pranav Trivedi....
...“Not every [board] member has to be an expert in financial risk, but has to be able to read a spread sheet or a P&L [profit and loss account],” Richdale points out....
...Yet roughly one-third of the market’s rally since the start of the fourth quarter last year stems from burgeoning investor interest in Hermès, Kering, LVMH and L’Oréal....
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...P&G has since asked its Singapore-based supplier Wilmar International to investigate Astra Agro Lestari, a palm oil subsidiary of Indonesian conglomerate Astra International that activists have accused of...
...Compare, for example, Intel on those two metrics: 2 per cent and 12 per cent, with a P/E ratio of 20....
...Mirova manages carbon credit investment pools for companies that buy offsets to reach net zero targets, including a €50mn nature protection fund for telecoms group Orange and a fund of the same size for L’...
...The combination means that at $100-a-barrel oil and current cash flow levels and equity prices, Oxy could buy back all its shares within three and a half years, according to S&P Global....
...Kevin Cameron Glass-Lewis is the second of the two dominant proxy advisers, and is led by its co-founder Cameron, a former lawyer....
...“It’s a tsunami of cash,” said Raoul LeBlanc, head of S&P’s North American oil and gas division. “The companies have almost finished the balance sheet repair.”...
...S&P 500 companies....
...John McIntire of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which managed the sale with JP Morgan & Co., said two-thirds of the bonds were sold to such clients, with the rest going to emerging-market and high-yield accounts...
...Anyway, here are names and links — we’ll let you make your own mind up: Liquid 2 Venture Fund III L.P . . . . Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . ....
...With its unparalleled line-up of big-name speakers, Houston’s CERAWeek conference, now run by its new parent S&P Global, has long been the banner event on the oil industry calendar....
...In a recent study S&P estimated demand for copper would double to 50mn tonnes by 2035 because of its uses in electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, solar panels, wind turbines and batteries....
...The self-styled scourge of ‘woke’ boardrooms Vivek Ramaswamy promotes his war on what he calls “Woke, Inc” with television appearances, opinion pieces, two books and public letters to S&P 500 companies....
...like Lancôme and L’Oréal Paris....
...“Supply chain may be something where Barry needs support, but the fiscal side of things, what does the P&L actually look like? Barry is as good as they come.”...
...Berkshire shares, by contrast, have rallied 18 per cent this year, far outpacing the S&P 500. In 2021, they gained nearly 30 per cent....
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