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...S&P Global Ratings lowered the debt rating of Entergy New Orleans by one notch to triple B and gave it a negative outlook, citing “the propensity and severity of storm activity along the Gulf Coast”....
...(Billy Nauman) B Lab sees opportunity in its second crisis The first B-Corp, a profit-making company with a stakeholder-serving purpose baked into its corporate structure, was certified in 2007 — just...
...US B-52 bombers, deployed from Louisiana to Qatar last week, have this week been flying what have been described as “deterrence missions” across the Gulf region....
...Related Links: 'I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I cannot sanction this Series B round' - FT Alphaville Is Google cheap? - FT Alphaville This is a tech bubble, when's the crash?...
...C K Patel, University of Utah, US...
...Without a trusted third party — a.k.a a bilateral trade — that could leave a number of transactions “open” for quite a long time....
...Google’s new name for its holding company, Alphabet, provided a range of definitions: “A is for Avarice, B is for Bowdlerise, through to K for Kleptocracy, P is for Piracy and Z is for Zealotry,” said Mr...
...Party A’s wallet has been debited while party B’s wallet has been credited. This is something akin to witnessing a physical coin being passed from one hand to the other....
...Light Louisiana Sweet, the US Gulf coast benchmark, this week sold for just a dollar less than the international Brent benchmark, suggesting solid demand for it....
...B: (icily) We don’t use the K word here. So I can’t comment on rumours that I know President Nursultan Nazarbayev, or “Nazzy Baby” as I call him. C: (sweating) North Korea?...
...In 2011 BHP also bought Petrohawk for its unconventional oil holdings in Texas and Louisiana, but is widely seen to have overpaid....
...Royal Dutch Shell is moving 50,000 b/d of Louisiana light crude to a refinery in Newfoundland province, according to Clipper Data....
...On land, five oil refineries with 936,500 b/d of production capacity, including plants owned or co-owned by Valero Energy, Phillips 66 and ExxonMobil, were shut down and six more were operating at reduced...
...In the wake of damage caused by hurricane Isaac, the Department of Energy agreed to lend a million barrels of crude from its emergency reserves to Marathon Petroleum Corp for its Louisiana refinery....
...“[B]y being a passive investor in the $1.5bn equity investment in Cheniere led by Blackstone, alongside Government of Singapore Investment Corp, and the state of Louisiana, CIC hopes to avoid the sort of...
...As the storm neared, Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 were respectively shutting down refineries in Garyville and Belle Chasse, Louisiana....
...So industry deleveraging — a.k.a an inability to lend — means banks have much lower reserve requirements than they might otherwise have....
...“A Samsung TV will be able to listen, see and do what it wants, without even touching a remote control,” said B.K. Yoon, president of Samsung’s consumer electronics division....
...A Bloomberg article kicked the whole thing off: Bank of America Corp....
...Time for plan B C D E F G H I J K L M? BofA is said to be considering — not seriously according to the WSJ — issuing “tracker stocks” on Merrill Lynch....
...Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, also increased output by more than 900,000 b/d in June to 9.8m b/d, official Joint Organisations Data Initiative records showed on Wednesday....
...of News Corp’s executive board, the Murdoch family, with its 38 per cent stake in B-class shares, has effective control of the company....
..., beyondbrics China B: the sum of all fears, beyondbrics Is China bubble now an anti-China bubble?, beyondbrics...
...“There are ongoing discussions with Exxon, but it’s preliminary,” A.K. Hazarika, the chairman of ONGC, told the Financial Times on Wednesday. “We’ll know more in the next few weeks.” B.C....
...Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, which is heavily reliant on the oil and gas industry, was not at the hearing, but said the attempt to end tax breaks for oil and gas companies had “no...
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