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...How the ‘dumbest deal in history’ actually paid off When Occidental Petroleum boss Vicki Hollub orchestrated a $10bn financing deal with Warren Buffett to buy Anadarko Petroleum in April 2019, it flabbergasted...
...“We’re just on a razor,” he told the FT. “That’s why I’ve talked about being concerned right now — but I think it gets really, really serious in the next 12 months....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...I’m very 2015 in my faith in experts, and I want climate scientists, trade specialists et al to explain the world to me....
...The esprit de corps that had distinguished H2O when everyone sat in the same room was lost. Some at H2O wondered if Windhorst had drawn Crastes to Monaco....
...Fox Corp reports results....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...Two things to start: Carl Icahn has dropped his stake in Occidental Petroleum, while two other shale producers merged....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...The family had something extra to celebrate that year: Mr Vadell had recently been promoted to the post of vice-president of refining at Citgo Petroleum Corp, a US-based, Venezuelan-owned oil company....
...DD’s James Fontanella-Khan takes us through how a mega-deal at Occidental Petroleum took a turn for the worse in this M&A tale....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...We’re keen to hear your thoughts and ideas so please do get in touch at energy.source@ft.com....
...Carmaker Ford is the latest addition to a long list that includes Occidental Petroleum, Macy’s and Kraft Heinz. The biggest risk indicator of a company’s downgradability is debt....
...“We’re designing a strategy, working to get to the best agreement that reflects the reality on the ground in Venezuela and the humanitarian crisis it’s currently experiencing,” he said....
...Service Providers (ie Spotify, Apple et al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Mr Guaidó invoked a constitutional provision three weeks ago to assume Venezuela’s presidency, arguing that Mr Maduro’s re-election last year was a sham....
...“What we’re seeing is a set of discontented youth with little education and no future,” said Joseph Hanlon, an expert on Mozambique at the Open University in London....
...The establishment of the GNA, led by Fayez al-Sarraj, prime minister, as part of the UN-backed political agreement in December 2015, was intended to bring stability....
...Could the same happen in New York or Crystal City? “Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not....
...From its support of Syria’s brutal Bashar al-Assad regime and the Houthis in Yemen, to missile attacks on its neighbours, the Iranian regime actually grew more aggressive....
...Saad Sherida Al Kaabi, QP’s chief executive, said last June that the company was seeking international opportunities to counter falls in domestic crude production and a government ban on drilling in the...
...Al Walker, chief executive of Anadarko Petroleum, a US independent oil producer, observed at the CERAWeek conference in Houston last year that although the company recorded a lot of data, “we don’t do that...
...One of China’s biggest state-owned oil companies is suing its Venezuelan counterpart in a US court, in a sign that Beijing’s patience over unpaid debts is running out as the Caribbean nation falls deeper...
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