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...The deal will greatly expand Home Depot’s reach among contractors and builders....
...Scarlett’s allegation appeared to contradict Apple’s claim to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it “supports the rights of its employees and contractors to speak freely” about workplace issues,...
...Inc., a footwear company based in California, agreed to settle charges for failing to disclose payments for the benefit of its executives and their immediate family members....
...Berkshire did not disclose any new investments in the fourth quarter of 2023, although it increased its holdings in satellite radio operator SiriusXM and in oil majors Chevron and Occidental Petroleum....
...Nigeria has won an appeal against an award to a little-known energy contractor, ending years of wrangling that put Africa’s largest economy at risk of having to pay out $11bn....
...Lego is fundamentally a product that is petroleum-based. I mean, ABS plastic has a core element of petroleum. Their entire product is based on oil....
...Strong deals in Europe have added to the mood, with listings for the likes of German defence contractor Renk and Athens International Airport rising after their market debuts....
...The delivery company said on Tuesday the headcount reductions would target its 85,000 workers in management, along with some contractors, with three-quarters of the lay-offs expected to occur in the first...
...recombination of ideas (those constant software updates), learning by doing and international trade (has anyone ever produced a high tech product at a scale matching Apple and its stable of global sub-contractors...
...Avid Bioservices, a small-cap company that helps develop and manufacture drugs for pharmaceutical companies, filed this with the SEC yesterday: On February 29, 2024, Avid Bioservices, Inc....
...BlackRock is set to invest $550mn into the world’s biggest direct air capture project, which is being developed by Occidental Petroleum, in a sign of growing investor confidence in the nascent technology...
...A Delaware court will soon begin an auction for Citgo Petroleum, the seventh-largest oil refiner in the United States....
...surge in supply led to gluts in the region surrounding CVR’s two refineries in Coffeyville, Kansas and Wynnewood, Oklahoma, allowing the company to buy crude oil at knockdown local prices and sell refined petroleum...
...with the claims about energy companies, saying “BlackRock clients have more than $170bn invested in American energy companies” and touted last month’s $550mn investment by a BlackRock fund in Occidental Petroleum...
...News round-up General Atlantic takes first step towards potential US listing (FT) Cigna pulls out of blockbuster deal to create insurance giant with Humana (FT) Occidental Petroleum agrees $12bn deal...
...Berkshire also added to his positions in Capital One and oil producer Occidental Petroleum....
...Irving Oil, the owner of Canada’s largest petroleum refinery, has launched a strategic review of the private company that could result in a sale or a change in its sprawling energy portfolio....
...Boone Pickens and Richard Rainwater’s Mesa Petroleum in 1997 and renamed it Pioneer....
...Uber had argued that it was exempt from VAT because its drivers were self-employed contractors. However, the Supreme Court ruled that its drivers should be considered workers....
...Hacking Inc....
...its minimum wage of $15 per hour was below reasonable estimates of the “living wage” in some parts of the country, and that it was avoiding obligations to workers by treating many of them as “independent contractors...
...Some of the larger contractors are also looking at partnerships....
...No outside contractor had been willing to take on Nigerian risk, he said, so he had to design and build the whole thing in-house. “We didn’t cut costs. We didn’t cut corners,” he said....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 3. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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