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...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...Apple and Facebook’s war of wordsApple chief Tim Cook launched a stinging attack on ad-based social networks such as Facebook on Thursday, arguing that such platforms were responsible for real-world violence...
...(Hat-tip to The Telegraph’s James Cook for alerting us.) We present to you, over five slides, the Valley of Coronavirus (from page 47 onwards). Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined this....
...Tim Cook charted his own path of succession, building an empire around his predecessor’s inventions....
...(FT) Drilling down The Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico has made the surrounding areas attractive locations for those chasing the US oil boom, and this time they think it will last....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Matt Cook of Douglas-Westwood, a consultancy, says that because offshore projects take years to develop, the impact of falling oil prices is felt only after a lag....
...And the attendant softening of the credit markets was front and centre in the negotiations,” Philip Cook, Samson’s chief financial officer, noted....
...“Tullow’s drilling success rate, exploration spend and opportunity set are peer leading,” Morgan Stanley said....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...Additional reporting by Christopher Cook...
...The company now expects to start drilling in the deepwater Southern Falkland basin in the first quarter of 2012....
...This means that while the rigs themselves may still be under contract (and in some cases force majeure has been declared), everyone from the supply boats to the cooks and cleaning crews that would have worked...
...Mr Oppenheimer’s team turned more positive on the travel companies such as Thomas Cook, which bounced 9.3 per cent to 262¾p....
...HSBC upgraded the stock to “overweight” on the back of drilling results from its Massawa pit in Senegal....
...First Reserve handed him $1bn and the assistance of Nabors whose focus is drilling, and told him “go and build a company and find some oil and gas,” says Mr Ross....
...In other corporate news, Boeing , the commercial aircraft maker and a partner received a $10.4bn contract for the V-22 Osprey. Boeing shares added 1.2 per cent to $74.37....
...The plaintiffs have a point: there is moral hazard involved in allowing third parties, including accountants who help cook the books, to get off scot-free for helping others commit fraud....
...But many of the ingredients that financial alchemists like Henry Kravis and Steve Schwarzman used in recent years to cook up their riches are no longer available to them....
...Q: Your thoughts please on positioning v branding and perhaps the former requiring much more attention and effort?...
...His predecessor, Jeff Bleustein, is also an avid rider of his Electra Glide and V-Rod bikes. Harley-Davidson has performed as well as its bikes in recent years....
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