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...s lawyers make final appeal for acquittal in FTX trial (FT) WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week (Wall Street Journal) ArcelorMittal obtains €140mn freezing order against Gupta’s Liberty...
...Oilfield services groups are feeling the squeeze from a slowdown in activity in the US shale patch as companies scale back on oil and gas drilling....
...“There is starting to be a little bit of a competition for [fracking] fleet,” said Chris Wright, chief executive of Liberty Oilfield Services, which operates fracking equipment across the US....
...Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng held an emergency meeting on Sunday with Jon Ferriman, chief executive of Liberty Steel....
...Liberty Steel said: “We can confirm a temporary issue with one of our [hot rolled coil] suppliers to Liberty Liège-Dudelange and Magona has been successfully concluded using our normal commercial dispute...
...The report opened the floodgates for junior employees at other investment banks and financial/professional services groups who had been suffering in silence....
...Luckily for DD, the US House of Representatives committee on financial services has made our fantasy gathering a reality....
...He says that for 15 years, half of the carried interest he was entitled to from Vista’s premiere fund was filtered through a Nevis LLC called Flash Holdings, owned via bearer shares by a Belize foundation...
...He joins from Conway MacKenzie where he worked as a managing director in private fund services....
...Big Tech companies have been reluctant to police disinformation online, in part because of civil liberty concerns....
...In the coming months, the US Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the lizard as endangered — a designation that would make it an offence even to disturb its habitat....
...But Institutional Shareholder Services, the influential shareholder advisers, has now thrown its weight behind the naysayers....
...It also works with companies including Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services group, Total and Chevron....
...The data would be used to plan services in real time, in what it calls a “feedback of residents”....
...One of the key questions is whether advertisers will continue to stay loyal to services such as YouTube and Facebook....
...In a 170-page report, Markopolos said GE had concealed a decades-long accounting fraud in its insurance and oilfield services businesses that could see the company file for bankruptcy....
...That threat must be resisted, for liberty’s sake....
...Industry and civil liberties groups had lobbied against the original proposal, which it was feared would undermine the privacy and security of individuals and provoke a legal clash with companies....
...This has allowed the city to operate at a scale that is rare in the National Health Service....
...Taking limited responsibility for what appears on social networks or in search results no longer sounds like making a stand for liberty....
...A good example is Netflix, which last quarter took the liberty of hosting a pre-recorded conference call with one analyst....
...Technological advances that have enabled production from US shale oilfields to thrive will lead to growth of 8m barrels a day between 2010 and 2025, surpassing expansion rates enjoyed by any other nation...
...-2014, Mr Hall maintained his bullish view even as prices plummeted from $115 a barrel to below $30, arguing that the US shale revolution alone could not meet rising demand or offset declines at ageing oilfields...
...He formed a close relationship with Jobs, his successor Tim Cook, and Eddy Cue, who runs Apple’s software and services business, and first discussed launching a music-streaming service with them in 2006....
...during negotiations over a disputed oilfield in Nigeria which has left the Anglo-Dutch group facing corruption probes in at least three countries, writes Andrew Ward....
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