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...Indeed, the phrase was only uttered twice during S&P 500 earnings calls in 2018....
...Early Wall Street futures also took a lurch lower, pointing to a decline of over 1 per cent for the S&P 500 when it opens in New York....
...Centrica was looking to “further strengthen” its E&P business, Mr Conn said....
...“Iain did say early on in his tenure that he wanted to reduce exposure to E&P but he didn’t say he wanted to get out and he has been pretty firm since then that he likes having exposure to E&P,” Mr Cox said...
...Since arriving in January 2015, chief executive Iain Conn has promised to reduce the London-listed utility’s exposure to exploring and producing (E&P) natural gas....
...Mr Conn said: As part of our strategy of 2015, we have been aiming to develop a more focused and stronger E&P business which will contribute to the resilience of the Group while limiting Centrica’s E&P...
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 and Japan’s Topix were both down 0.2 per cent....
...Mr Laidlaw’s successor at Centrica, Iain Conn, has since 2015 been re-shaping the utility....
...“It is frustrating to always end up being blamed for it [rising bills]” Mr Conn said....
...Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.5 per cent. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index was up 0.6 per cent....
...Between October and May, wholesale electricity prices have been flat but UK day-ahead wholesale gas prices have increased 16.3 per cent, according to S&P Global Platts....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 down 1.6 per cent, while Japan’s Topix was down 0.3 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was off 0.6 per cent....
...The bigger question is where Mr Conn will take the group....
...Investors pushed shares of home furniture and appliance retailer Conn’s higher, after the company reported a 3.1 per cent rise in second-quarter same-store sales and appointed a chief executive....
...Centrica’s new chief executive, Iain Conn, has decided to jump right in....
...Iain Conn, head of BP’s refining and marketing business, said the deal was “a significant step in the strategic refocusing of our US fuels business”....
...Mr Dudley will have been relieved, though, that Iain Conn, chief executive of BP’s refining and marketing operations, is not departing to replace Sir John Rose at the helm of Rolls-Royce, as some had expected...
...Dodd (D-Conn.), the committee chairman, pushed forward with a financial-regulation bill that sheds several compromises reached with opposition lawmakers and instead hews more closely to the blueprint advocated...
...Inside BP, the Gulf E&P staff were seen as the paladins: the champions who could perform impossible feats, and were rewarded accordingly....
...Since launch in 1985, the fund has shown a compound annual growth rate of 12 per cent, compared with 8.5 per cent (in sterling terms) for the benchmark S&P 500 index....
...GE Statement on S&P Ratings Action FAIRFIELD, Conn.–12 March 2009– Standard & Poor’s (S&P) today announced a single-notch downgrade of General Electric Company’s and General Electric Capital Corporation...
...Shares in BP were 4½p lower at 562p in late afternoon London trading....
...After reaching an intra-day peak of 1,328, its highest level since February 12, the S&P 500 index settled at 1,325.18, marking an 0.5 per cent gain....
...The S&P 500, which touched a 5½-year high on Wednesday, was down 0.4 per cent. The dollar slid 0.84 per cent versus the euro to $1.2789, it largest daily loss since July 26....
...S&P says most residential property prices have at least doubled, and some have tripled, since then....
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