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...By far the most regularly embarrassing calls I’ve heard during my years in finance were predictions for the price of Brent or WTI....
...In inflation-adjusted terms, Thursday’s Brent settlement price of $85.12 a barrel would equate to about $73 five years ago....
...Brent crude continued its recent rise, trading 1.6 per cent higher at $123.49 a barrel after the EU agreed a partial ban on Russian oil imports....
...Brent crude was nearly 140 bucks a barrel last week on fears of a Russian oil ban....
...International benchmark Brent hit $139.13 a barrel in European trading today, almost 20 per cent higher than its settlement price on Friday....
...Oil prices rise above $80 a barrel for first time in three years Brent, the international oil benchmark, rose as much as 0.8 per cent to $80.19 a barrel during trading earlier today as markets grappled with...
...A flood of sell orders pushed Brent crude down more than 30 per cent to below $35 a barrel....
...Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, settled 0.2 per cent lower at $58.16 a barrel....
...This year Washington approved the sale of advanced tanks, Stinger missiles, and 66 F-16 V fighter aircraft to Taipei....
...We see c.$1.1B of equity value (pre-$200M of new equity) at $65/bbl Brent and $1.7B of value at $75/bbl Brent, versus a current market capitalisation of c.$500M....
...Back to Jefferies: [I]f FirstGroup is once again highlighting the negative impact of a falling discount rate and deteriorating claims, then we believe insurance investors should take heed....
...First, Britain needs a cathedral workspace for entrepreneurs, a fitting rival to France’s Station F, which is Europe’s largest shared workspace for entrepreneurs....
...One idea: “a cathedral workspace for entrepreneurs, a fitting rival to France’s Station F”....
...The Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein spoke last week of the value his refugee parents attached to their trips to London’s Brent Cross shopping centre....
...Quick Hits — What’s on the market radar Oil prices swamped by supply — Brent crude today approached its August intraday low of $70.30 as the threat of a supply squeeze from US sanctions on Iran has been...
...The UK group believes its portfolio of shopping centres, which includes London’s Brent Cross and Birmingham’s Bullring, is worth about £10.5bn — but its shares trade well below this....
...In July, R&F agreed to purchase 77 Wanda hotels on the Chinese mainland, in another hasty deal....
...In the 2001-2003 series The Office, with a single appalled stare or conspiratorial glance at the camera, he brought home the true awfulness of David Brent....
...Last year, Ford sold six F-series light trucks in the US for every plug-in vehicle, providing solid petrol demand for the years to come. Even in China, one in every three cars sold is an SUV....
...Mr Trump’s November victory ignited the steepest rally from election day to inauguration for a first term president since John F. Kennedy won the White House in 1960....
...Brent crude’s climb back above $40 a barrel and iron ore’s record 19 per cent spike on Monday are helping to boost commodity companies across a number of emerging market bourses....
...Meanwhile, Brent settled at $28.94, down 6.3 per cent for the day. The Mexican peso tumbled 2.3 per cent to new record low of 18.29 per dollar....
...From the surreal aerial hover by Britain’s newest stealth aircraft, the F-35, to the gravity defying steep climbs of Boeing and Airbus passenger jets, there was enough to excite most of those who trekked...
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...“Foreign exchange has been a huge factor,” says Kona Haque, head of research at commodity traders ED&F Man....
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