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...The cloud computing infrastructure experienced two big failures late last year, including a December outage at its data centre in northern Virginia. 5....
...Its veil of mystery is only heightened by the fact that its headquarters are located a few miles away from the CIA in suburban northern Virginia. Now that secrecy has been thrown aside....
...Oil prices were at their lowest levels for a year, while the yield on US Treasuries touched another record low in Asian trading as investors sought safety from plunging stock markets....
..., which caused park closures and travel disruptions in Texas as well as weather impacts in Virginia....
...Another quay is reserved for the country’s first oil and gas exploration logistics base....
...This could generate as much as $80m a year in profits to the trading business and will help Glencore reassert itself as the dominant trader of crude oil, a position currently held by rival trader Trafigura...
...The S&P 500 energy sector, a gauge of the biggest US energy companies, was easily the worst performer out of the major groups, dropping 1.1 per cent in midday trading....
...As the world moves towards an electric future, raw materials are likely to play as important a part as oil did in the 20th century....
...The Calgary-based company could pay as much as $10bn to take over Columbia, which operates natural gas pipelines in 16 states from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast of America....
...For one thing, the oil-fired power plants that generated as much as 18 per cent of global electricity in 1980 now produce about 5 per cent, so lower crude prices do not threaten wind farms and solar parks...
...Sterling is up 0.1 per cent to $1.4495, trading only 25 pips or so shy of a two-month high as “Brexit” fears seem to fade....
...” accounting in ways that make them look suspiciously like portfolio management companies — a group of disparate firms operating separately and trying to make as much money as quickly as possible, with little...
...“The parties, the ones that were not cancelled, were very much toned down this year,” said the London head of one oil trading company....
...Hess, the company he built, was an international empire, a “mini-Exxon” encompassing oil wells, storage tanks, refineries, a trading house and fuel stations....
...But if Mr Ashley wanted to disrupt the sale of company with a valuation of £15m-£20m, why do it by buying shares worth £34m? As always, he is keeping the despised City guessing....
...Western Canada Select, a heavy oil marker, was $86 a barrel a year ago. By March it was trading below $30....
...Anadarko Petroleum, for example, is often talked about as a takeover target, but its shares are trading at about 40 times 2016 earnings, while Exxon’s are at 16 times....
...While other UTC businesses — such as Pratt & Whitney, the aerospace engine maker — supply kit to outside companies that fit the equipment into a finished product, Sikorsky is alone in the group as a systems...
...Today, in the same building as Apollo overlooking New York’s Central Park, KKR is looking at billions of dollars of losses on the $7.2bn investment it led in Samson, an Oklahoma-based oil and gas exploration...
...Brent crude oil fell to $53.10 per barrel in New York trading; West Texas Intermediate crude dipped below $50 a barrel....
...The decline in attendance at the two SeaWorld locations was offset by strong performance at the company’s regional parks including Busch Gardens in Virginia and Sesame Place in Pennsylvania....
...Meanwhile, Alexander Nekipelov, chairman of the Rosneft board of directors, said Exxon might suspend its co-operation with the Russian state oil company....
...BP and Exxon evacuate Iraq staff as fighting spreads Oil majors such as ExxonMobil and BP evacuated staff from Iraq as Sunni insurgents continued to advance through the north of the country and surrounded...
...In 2012, the Financial Times reported that Angola’s security chief, his former aide and the man who led the state oil company at the time it granted Cobalt its oil rights had owned previously concealed stakes...
...Cargill said the poor performance of its energy business had continued in the fourth quarter as the company, which closed its coal and European power and gas operations in March, cleaned out its trading...
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