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...“Glencore has been the most aggressive [in pursuing deals], among the major miners,” said Chris LaFemina, mining analyst at Jefferies....
...LaFemina, the Jefferies analyst, believed big changes could be afoot....
...Chris LaFemina, mining analyst at Jefferies, is also a supporter. “It has saved Teck from being acquired at very weak points in commodity cycles.”...
...Jefferies has lured former Barclays banker Sam Dean out of retirement to become vice-chair of investment banking in London, per Bloomberg....
...Leslie Hook and Henry Sanderson answered readers’ questions following their magazine piece on renewables and geopolitics. How tech went big on green energy....
...Brent Thill, an analyst at Jefferies, said successfully integrating the recent string of acquisitions would be a top challenge facing the new chief executive....
...Here’s a chart showing you who’s put in what and how: The key points are laid out in detail by DD’s Arash Massoudi along with Kana Inagaki and Leslie Hook in a feature you can read here....
...The company named chairman Jeffery Boyd as interim chief executive while it conducts a search for a permanent replacement....
...But Jefferies estimates that if the merchant integration goes well, Venmo could bring in an additional $100m in revenues in 2017....
...They don’t care,” said Peter Atherton, a utilities analyst at Jefferies....
...Driven to cut its losses Few businesses have made as many big pivots as Uber in 2016, writes Leslie Hook....
...Leslie Hook Health check for Whole Foods There is not a whole lot of loving going on at Whole Foods ....
...“It is one of those quarters where things felt a little tougher all across the board,” says Ken Usdin at Jefferies. The onus falls on the unglamorous business of cost-cuts....
...Ken Usdin, head of the banks research team at Jefferies in New York, says that some clients have started to wonder if earnings reports will matter much at all this quarter....
...“It showed how powerful this medium can be when a CEO is dealing with a crisis,” says Leslie Gaines-Ross, chief reputation strategist at PR firm Weber Shandwick....
...The HoloLens headset allows viewers to see holograms projected around them, combining virtual reality with the real world, writes Leslie Hook in San Francisco....
...Mr Yu, the Jefferies analyst, estimates that the “vast majority” of the bidders has no experience drilling for oil or gas....
...“China’s appetite for gold seems to be growing,” said Jake Greenberg, mining specialist at Jefferies, pointing to China Gold’s interest in African Barrick, Zijin Mining’s A$180m (US$186m) offer for Australia...
...“If they can reject Petronas it doesn’t look good for Cnooc,” said Laban Yu, energy analyst at Jefferies in Hong Kong. “The Nexen deal doesn’t have public support . . ....
...“China will become the engine of global gas demand, growing at 15 per cent per annum in the coming decade,” wrote Jefferies, the investment bank, in a recent report....
...“There will definitely be more overseas acquisitions,” said Laban Yu, analyst at Jefferies, the investment bank. “Cnooc has this big cash pile burning a hole through its pocket.”...
...said Laban Yu, an analyst at Jefferies....
...“Gas is just starting out as an energy source in China,” said Laban Yu, oil and gas analyst at Jefferies SP in Hong Kong....
...Chinese oil companies have signed around US$125bn to US$130bn in deals in the last two years, and I would expect they would do at least that much again in the next two years,” said Laban Yu, analyst at Jefferies...
...A recent report from Jefferies, the investment bank. described the shift: “The dynamics driving energy consumption are changing. The economy is expected to slow to 7% over the next five years....
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