Hints and tips:
...You will feel like Lance Armstrong, in his prime, after an appointment with his doctor. It turns out that it is about the bike....
...US railroad Union Pacific on Sunday said it would replace its chief executive Lance Fritz this year. Investcorp is opening an office in Tokyo....
...Another is that Lance Uggla, former head of IHS Markit, has just unveiled a $4bn climate fund with General Atlantic....
...The commercial advertising on display spoke to a transformed game — from stodgy old pastime to rising e-sport and grist for the content mill....
...Notably, Lance Uggla, the head of IHS Markit, is expected to lead the new fund once his firm’s acquisition by S&P closes this year (General Atlantic declined to comment on the fundraising)....
...They included leveraged buyouts of the Mexican food chain Qdoba last year, the parent company of Chuck E Cheese in 2014 and CKE Restaurants, which owns burger chain Carl’s Jr, in 2010....
...Doubling down on the Permian reduces portfolio diversification and feels counter cyclical to the idea that US E & Ps are going to start looking internationally because tight oil is out of favour,” said Alex...
...As many as 55 E&P companies would go bust this year, it predicted....
...ConocoPhillips boss Ryan Lance, the oilman defying crash with big bet on US shale2....
...But most of the major E & Ps are talking about less capital per well going forward,” said Mr Cohen. Some analysts agree....
...“There is a young lady right there in Georgia who I think would make a tremendous VP candidate, and that’s the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms.”...
...Unlike many of its peers in the US E&P industry, the company generated free cash flow that was comfortably able to cover its capital spending and dividend payments....
...“Investors punished E&Ps that raised guidance by 230 basis points on average,” said Bob Brackett at Bernstein....
...Its Campbell Fresh unit, which focuses on “packaged fresh” foods, will be under the umbrella of the new unit, as well its digital and e-commerce unit and other teams that can be quickly deployed to tackle...
...Physically, McChrystal is an older, taller Lance Armstrong....
...Conoco was one of the first US E&P companies to say it would be focusing on returns to shareholders through shares and buybacks, a policy that has now become common across the industry....
...“The whole E&P sector, really, has not performed very well, even [through] the commodity price cycles,” he said. “We really want to be a stock that will perform through the cycles.”...
...Lance Fritz, chief executive of the Union Pacific railroad, said in a recent interview that Mr Trump’s move to scrap Clean Power Plan regulations was unlikely to grow its coal business....
...Like other US E&P companies, Conoco is stepping up its drilling onshore in the US, adding rigs in the Permian Basin shale region of west Texas and the Eagle Ford of south Texas....
...Capital expenditure on exploration and production has fallen from about $700bn in 2014 to $400bn this year and, according to Wood Mac, $1tn of planned E&P work has been cancelled or deferred....
...Lance Fritz, UP chief executive, said the past year had been “difficult”....
...“Sleep on, dear Ernie, and take your rest, we needed you, but God knew best”, is the fatalist inscription marking the grave of Gunner E Priest of the Royal Artillery at the Imphal cemetery in India’s far...
...“We work with dozens of dealers and today we rely on multiple systems to communicate,” said Jim Toffey, head of e-markets at GFI Group....
...The way that they are set up, they can either be set to “on” or “off” – i.e., a system either makes all of its payments or it doesn’t make any at all....
...Robbert van Batenburg, director of market strategy at Newedge, called the recent market rally a “Lance Armstrong rally, powering ahead by artificial stimulants”....
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