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...In February Cheniere signed a contract with China National Petroleum Corporation to sell 1.2m tonnes per year until 2043....
...Ms Majoras joined P&G in 2008 from the US Federal Trade Commission, where she served as chairman, She served at the US Department of Justice antitrust division from 2001-03....
...Kitchen, Caesars Entertainment and Goodrich Petroleum....
...Our approach to M&A is grounded in our overall general management approach to any business....
...Oil drilling and exploration companies saw the sharpest gains, with EOG Resources rising 6.7 per cent to $94.89, Anadarko Petroleum adding 5.2 per cent to $69.05 and Peabody Energy rallying 5.4 per cent...
...Anadarko Petroleum signed a $1.55bn deal with the Korea National Oil Corporation for one-third of its interest in the Maverick Basin assets in Texas....
...Nomura raised its target price on L&G to 171p, helping the stock climb by 3.3 per cent to 122¾p....
...Back among the blue-chips, Aviva gained a further 5.1 per cent to 397¼p as takeover theories continued to swirl in the wake of RSA Insurance ’s rejected £5bn bid for its general insurance division....
...Aviva led the blue-chip risers, up 3.6 per cent to 391¼p, while Legal & General took on 1.3 per cent to 95½p as consolidation gossip circulated....
...Hopes of cost savings and cash returns helped Legal & General as the London market continued its slow grind higher on Monday....
...Goldman Sachs was recommending Legal & General, up 4 per cent to 74¼p, ahead of a trading update due this morning. It forecast L&G to have generated £602m of cash in 2009....
...The insurer rose 2.4 per cent to 93½p after the Pensions Corporation, a pensions buyout business, hosted an upbeat meeting on new European capital rules known as Solvency II....
...Legal & General dropped 5.1 per cent to 73¼p and Aviva fell 3.9 per cent to 375¼p. Prudential itself slumped 12 per cent to 530p in anticipation of its £14bn rights issue....
...L&G rose 3.7 per cent to 79p after Credit Suisse moved to “outperform” in a sector review....
...Prudential fell 3 per cent to 347p, its fourth straight decline, while Aviva was down 5.2 per cent to 239¼p and Legal & General lost 3 per cent to 45.4p....
...Imperial Energy was up 8 per cent to £11.60 after confirming that it had received a second takeover approach, believed to be from China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation....
...Government is raising tax burdens sharply on those who make decisions on resource use....
...His office on the top floor of P&G’s Central Building in Cincinnati has no doors or walls, so there is nothing to prevent members of the top management team from dropping by....
...Other financials fared better, including Legal & General, up 1.8 per cent to 116¼p after UBS said concerns about increased competition in the UK were overdone, adding that L&G was its preferred play in the...
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