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...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...The two Wall Street investment banks were followed by JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to Thomson Reuters data....
...In February Cheniere signed a contract with China National Petroleum Corporation to sell 1.2m tonnes per year until 2043....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...The company is emblematic, campaigners say, of how too many of America’s boardrooms are failing to protect investors’ interests....
...Political candidates and sitting presidents alike, for example, have long criticised the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v Wade abortion rights decision....
...Over the past five years, many large companies, including Coca-Cola, Ford and BP, have withdrawn their membership from Alec after the organisation came under heavy criticism for helping to draft controversial...
...creates the European Economic Community, which eventually forms the basis of the world’s largest free trade zone 4 1986-94 Uruguay Round leads to the creation of the World Trade Organisation 5 1994 North...
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...Other companies affected are the oil group BP; BASF, the German chemicals company; Atlas Copco, a Swedish maker of industrial tools; Celio, a French fashion business and Wabco, a US company involved in vehicle...
...And forget the fact that all countries, including the UK, tax those corporations domiciled within their shores on profits rather than revenues....
...The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has figured prominently in regulators’ thinking as the disaster left the company liable for tens of billions of dollars in fines and compensation....
...BP may thus be deemed to have got bang for its destructive buck. BP came a cropper because it neglected safety in its scramble to tap fresh oil reserves....
...Enron famously tampered with the California energy markets and BP paid $300m in 2007 to settle propane market manipulation claims. To be fair, corporate cases are still quite rare....
...However, TPG had to overcome tough questions about the performance of TPG V, its boom-era buyout fund, which invested $15.5bn but suffered some high-profile casualties....
...Citi, the big bank that came closest to collapse in the aftermath of the financial crisis, is busily exiting entire markets, dropping from 962 to 788 branches in North America over the past 12 months....
...The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund will also back shareholder resolutions at BP and Royal Dutch Shell to force the oil companies to reveal more about how they are tackling climate change....
...even BP, a big, integrated group, has lost a quarter of its value in just the past few months....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...The major international oil companies are also well represented, including by Ben van Beurden, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP and Christophe de Margerie, chairman...
...In at least one case, SEC v....
...(Financial Times) Oil majors including ExxonMobil and BP started evacuating staff from Iraq as Sunni militants battled for control of the north’s main oil facility and clashes continued to rage across the...
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