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...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Flag as Important Tom Perkins dies The pioneer of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry and, more recently, one of its more controversial and outspoken figures,has died at the age of 84....
...Industry participants have called on Platts to review the system. Shell is particularly sensitive to the situation....
...The industry shake-up resembles the M&A fever of the late 1990s, another period of low oil prices. BG confirmed the talks in a statement, after an earlier report by The Wall Street Journal....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...Basically, another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big companies refusing to part with the extra yen Abenomics has brought...
...But Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, this month said his airline was not interested in buying the Bankia stake....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...“We are in a fast-changing industry that requires innovation and breakthrough products,” says Lee Liu, vice-president of human resources....
...The concentration is worrying some big importers, including China, India and Brazil, which lack domestic potash resources....
...Middle Eastern stock markets rallied in the first quarter of 2012, recovering most of the losses of 2011. But the region’s biggest bourse has gone a step further....
...Asterand , a supplier of human tissue samples to the drug development industry, advanced 9.1 per cent to 6p after saying takeover talks were ongoing and it was in talks with its creditors....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq’s former oil minister and now deputy prime minister, acknowledged the concerns....
...The three-month T-bills will be sold on Aug. 8 and will be split equally between Islamic and non-Islamic securities, Al- Thani said....
...Reliance Industries debt risk rises most in Asia on gas slump: India Credit The cost of protecting the debt of Reliance Industries has risen the most among Asia’s oil companies this quarter as the explorer...
...For sure, the attention of the whole industry, from Geneva to Singapore, is on it. And it should be – the flotation is a watershed moment which could change the industry for ever....
...In India, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries spent close to $3bn last year on stakes in energy producers such as Atlas Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources of the US....
...Eastern European economies growing faster than expected The economies of Eastern Europe are growing faster than expected a few months ago – but so are the risks, especially from inflation and from possible...
...Ipic is chaired by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a senior royal who manages the office of the UAE’s president, among other roles....
...They include the International Petroleum Investment Company, which was used as the vehicle for Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, to invest $3.5bn in Barclays, and...
...The prime minister has already allocated a further $30bn to bolster the QIA’s estimated resources of about $75bn this year....
...Waleed Al Mokarrab, Atic chairman, said the acquisition would give Chartered “access to Atic’s long-term capital and related assets”....
...This will help set the agenda for an already wary meeting of the industry in Santiago, Chile’s capital. The event comprises about 600 copper traders and executives....
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