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...Chevron has agreed to buy rival oil and gas producer Hess Corporation in a $53bn all-stock deal....
...But Saturday’s results filing indicated the company sold more than 12mn Chevron shares before it bought Hess for $53bn in an all-stock deal last month....
...Political correspondents Jim Pickard and Sebastian Payne explain who’s who in the new “unity cabinet”....
...In the decade after the 2008 financial crisis, hedge fund managers organised bruising public campaigns to unlock higher share prices at companies such as Procter & Gamble, the oil driller Hess and the Sotheby...
...“Anything over $1bn we’ll look at,” said Mr Kirk, who trained as an accountant before starting his career in the oil and gas industry with Hess in 1996....
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...Management, which includes chief executive and industry veteran Jim House, also holds a small stake, although Mr Laidlaw declined to say how much....
...I call it pure hell,” Jim Teague, chief of Enterprise Products Partners, told fellow executives at Houston’s IHS CERAWeek conference this week....
...John Hess, chief executive of Hess, a midsized independent US oil producer, says the decision “would have far reaching benefits for our country”, adding jobs, boosting investment in the US industry, and...
...From the US, Hess, Marathon Oil, Anadarko Petroleum, ConocoPhillips and Pioneer Natural Resources could be interested, bankers say....
...Rick Hess, co-managing partner of EMC, said Evolution Media would focus on a range of potential sport, media and entertainment acquisitions....
...“The indications are that Airbus is very positive,” said Mr Hess. “If and when they decide to launch we’re in a very strong position.”...
...The sector dropped 1.4 per cent with Hess Corporation, oil company, down 3.8 per cent at $50.89....
...Carl Hess, global head of investing at Towers Watson, says they should be looking at a wider range of issues....
...Dallas-based Kosmos was founded by Jim Musselman and Brian Maxted, two former executives of Triton Energy, which discovered the Ceiba Field in Equatorial Guinea before being sold for $3.2bn to Amerada Hess...
...“The one overwhelming constant since 2003 among investors has been perpetual worry and a lack of confidence,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management....
...Chevron tumbled 1.4 per cent to $65.11, and Hess dropped 2.2 per cent to $49.20....
...Conoco Phillips fell 6.2 per cent to $57.75, Amerada Hess lost 5.3 per cent $112.75, Chevron slid 4.4 per cent to $55.75 and Exxon Mobil gave up 3.3 per cent at $55.26....
..."A favourable commodity price environment contributed to strong earnings, cash flows and continued debt reduction this quarter," said Jim Mulva, ConocoPhillips' chairman and chief executive....
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