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...If it succeeds, it could change a culture of eating perhaps as profoundly as when humanity shifted from hunter-gathering to settled farming....
...“None of the speed, none of the innovation, none of the quick decisions, none of the risk-taking, none of the non-political thinking would have been possible in any of the large pharma corporations,” says...
...Rio Tinto is in talks to sell its controlling stake in the Rossing uranium mine in Namibia to the state owned China National Nuclear Corporation....
...Anglo American has secured a near $850m investment for its Quellaveco copper mine in Peru and a deal to fund 40 per cent of the mine’s development costs from Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation....
...Kalanick’s Twitter avatar, after all, had long been the cover of Rand’s magnum opus The Fountainhead....
...“Stock returns have primarily come from multiple expansion, or a general investor willingness to pay more for each dollar of earnings, together with huge increases in dividends and share buybacks as corporations...
...Creditors to Magnum Hunter Resources, which filed for bankruptcy protection this month, will receive nothing other than equity and even those who provide a loan to permit the company to operate under Chapter...
...For example, Magnum Hunter’s net debt multiple is five times, and nearly seven if the oil price stays at $70. Its shares have halved since June....
...Five groups, including ION Geophysical and Magnum Hunter Resources, are on S&P’s list of “weakest links”, suggesting that they are likely to be downgraded in the coming months, reflecting a raised risk of...
...Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded the ratings of eight smaller US exploration and production companies, including Swift Energy, Magnum Hunter Resources and Energy XXI....
...Vale and Glencore are shedding 550 jobs at mines in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales and in Queensland – the country’s two big coal producing regions, where about 50,000 people work in the industry...
...Richard Waters is the FT’s US West Coast editor Photograph: Wayne Miller/ Magnum Photos...
...So why did the societies which embraced farming expand and drive hunter-gatherers to the margins of the world?...
...Turnround hunter The conceit of Scandinavian mockumentary Troll Hunter is that stampeding trolls are to blame for damage attributed to hurricanes....
...“The resource is still first class, but the above ground problems are hugely challenging.”...
...Should board members be paid like bounty hunters? That could be the direction corporate governance is heading. Take Hess Corporation, the US oil company with a $25bn market capitalisation....
...However, in December the fund established two positions in companies exposed to the US shale gas industry, Kodiak Oil & Gas and Magnum Hunter, as well as acquiring a stake in Cabot Oil & Gas....
...There were five resource stocks in the list of the top 10 gainers. China-facing stocks were the most resilient. Eurasian Natural Resources made the best single gain, up 3.7 per cent at 289.4p....
...The peak was reached as resource stocks rallied, energised by strong economic data out of China, but it could not survive the renewed signs of disagreement in Washington on ways to avoid the fiscal cliff...
...Epping, concludes Maitland, is “a dream or memory of ancient woodland”, preserved by the Corporation of London as a resource for cockneys....
...For job hunters, gone are the days of circling ads in the newspaper classifieds section. Even internet job boards such as monster.com are tools of the past....
...Range Resources, down 6.1 per cent to 11½p, and Red Emperor Resources , down 10 per cent to 37.1p, fell after providing an update on their Shabeel well in Puntland, Somalia....
...Hunter Carter is a partner at New York based law firm, Arent Fox, co-chairs its Colombia working group, and blogs on Colombian issues at www.colombialawbiz.com and tweets @ColombiaLawBiz...
...Vedanta Resources rose 5.8 per cent to £13.23 and Rio Tinto was 1.8 per cent higher at £39.81....
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