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...In 2017, Restaurant Brands bought Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen for $1.8bn in cash to get into the chicken sandwich game. And in 2021, Restaurant Brands paid $1bn in cash for Firehouse Subs....
...The federal government’s lawyers argued Missouri and Louisiana failed to “make any plausible allegation” of “coercion” against social media companies, according to court filings....
...At the FT summit Keith Crane, economist at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, noted that the value of the launch market was actually smaller last year than in 2013, thanks to lower prices....
...Meanwhile, cranes are already busily installing another plant, ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy’s Golden Pass, in south-eastern Texas....
...An estimated 30,000 US companies have been hit....
...Other southern states, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky all now host Chinese factories....
...This year he spent $308m on a Louisiana food delivery start-up called Waitr and opened the Post Oak Hotel in Houston....
...Clusters of cranes and cement silos loom over a warren of earthworks crawling with excavators and 100-tonne dumper trucks....
...Castleton Resources aims to develop assets in the Haynesville shale region straddling Texas and Louisiana....
...Last week, the spot price of Light Louisiana Sweet crude on the US Gulf of Mexico coast was $61 per barrel — more than the price of $59.09 for Dated Brent from the North Sea, according to Argus Media....
...Judging by the number of cranes and construction sites dotting the sides of Warsaw’s main commercial street, it is easy to see how the city was the fourth most active office development market in Europe...
...Other US pension funds known to have reduced or exited their hedge fund investments include the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions system, the Louisiana Firefighters’ Retirement System, and the San Diego...
...They are in decline as companies tell employees to bear the market risks. And the demographic cycle is turning against them....
...That compares with the $467m in revenue from its crane business....
...staying out of Senate races in conservative states where vulnerable Democratic incumbents are more supportive of the oil and gas industry and less enthusiastic about tackling climate change, including Louisiana...
...The company and two investment groups have closed a $110m transaction to acquire working interests in two oil and natural gas production blocks and a platform about 150 miles offshore from Louisiana....
...The company’s profit margin stood at 16.1 per cent for the year, a rise of 0.1 of a percentage point from a year earlier, despite previous warnings from the company of a September slowdown....
...Using $400m of its own money and borrowing the rest, the private equity group then purchased energy assets in Texas, Louisiana and North Dakota – striking a $250m deal with ConocoPhillips in 2004 and a $2.3bn...
...The company had been planning for 6 per cent organic growth in September, but sales had in fact fallen 1.6 per cent during the month....
...Goldman has $133bn in assets under management, according to research firm Crane Data LLC, making it the eighth largest money-fund firm in the US....
...CB&I, an engineering group based in Texas, has struck a deal to pay $3bn for the Shaw Group, a Louisiana-based energy services company that is developing the first US nuclear power plants in a generation...
...Natural gas for May delivery at Henry Hub in Louisiana, the futures pricing point, slid 2.3 per cent to $1.984 per mBtu on Wednesday, retreating to the lowest point since January 2002....
...The company has contracts in place with customers such as the UK’s BG Group and India’s Gail to buy the plant’s production for 20 years once it is completed....
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