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...Italian bakery company Forno D’Asolo to a rival buyout group....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell 3 per cent to $87.37 a barrel on Wednesday....
...No mention of the B-word, then....
...These have picked up markedly in recent years, from a low of about 400,000 b/d in the pandemic year of 2020 to about 1.4mn b/d recently, according to Richard Bronze at Energy Aspects....
...You’d have like a whole bundle of mortgages, some good, some bad. They’d all be bundled together, and then there’d be securities that would be issued based on that sort of package....
...US production rose by roughly 1.5mn b/d to a record 13.5mn b/d in 2023 while that of Iran increased to an average of roughly 3.9mn b/d from about 3mn b/d a year earlier, said Claudio Galimberti, North America...
...cut by 211,000 b/d and 135,000 b/d respectively....
...The figure was up from 12.96 b/d in July and surpassed the previous monthly record of 13mn b/d set in November 2019....
...Its overall US oil output rose to 851,000 barrels a day during the quarter from 789,000 b/d a year ago....
...Now the US produces almost 20mn b/d of petroleum, roughly on par with consumption. Imports from the Gulf have plummeted, and the US became a net oil exporter for the first time in 2019....
...Hidden threat B. Riley Financial is under fire for funding a buyout linked to a firm that prosecutors call a fraud, The Wall Street Journal writes....
...Bridgewater, which in 2022 lost its place at the top of the all-time rankings to Citadel, fell a further two places to fourth, losing $2.6bn....
...Inflows funding tech fell more than 60 per cent last year, while the China market fell by about 45 per cent. Then there were some real disasters, and few investment firms evaded the fallout....
...We’d like to [invest] more before it is a consensus view because, by the time you get there, then valuations have moved,” said Jonathan Gray....
...“Is this a rescue act for Schonfeld?”, asked a senior executive at one London-based rival. “It’s quite a big step to take that much money from a peer. It’s not what you’d do if you had free choice.”...
...The number in South Africa fell to 8.6mn, a 5 per cent drop on the same period a year before. Canal+ had 8mn subscribers in French-speaking countries, said Saada....
...a multimillion dollar media campaign against Representative Katie Porter (D-Calif), who is running for the US Senate....
...At new wells in the Permian, average oil production per drilling rig has increased to 1,319 b/d. A decade ago the figure was about 183 b/d....
...Sarah Williams, partner at law firm BDB Pitmans, says becoming a trustee can be incredibly rewarding....
...Update: A section on Lazard under Ken Jacobs, who ran the firm for more than 13 years after Bruce Wasserstein’s death....
...Otis’s owner, Skelding, said: “If we’d known how much it would cost us each month on vet bills, we might have reconsidered getting a dog.” With additional reporting by Suzi Ring in London...
...Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”. Nye argues Biden was too old in 2020 and is making “a mistake” by running for re-election....
...That total fell to about 2.5mn b/d in August, with the decline coming from western-insured ships, which only carried 626,000 b/d that month — less than half the volume they transported in May....
...Pre-salt production rose from 41,000 b/d in 2010 to 2.3mn last year, fuelling record annual profits of R$188bn (US$39bn) and dividends of R$216bn at the company....
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