Hints and tips:
...But Hintze, a prominent philanthropist and Conservative party donor who was given a peerage late last year, will go his own way, spinning out the $1.5bn flagship Directional Opportunities hedge fund and...
...Its fixed-income and macro fund, which makes both directional and arbitrage bets, made 32.6 per cent, beating many specialist macro funds....
...Shale companies have shifted away from using cash to fund aggressive new drilling campaigns towards handing the lion’s share back to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks....
...This “Balkanisation” reduces the ability to pinpoint the “actual source of harm”: people’s data is treated as a costless resource, just as forests and other parts of nature were in centuries past....
...Structured credit was the main driver of losses at Sir Michael Hintze’s CQS Directional Opportunities fund, for example, which had lost about $1.4bn by the end of May....
...Oktay Kavrak, product strategist at Leverage Shares, said the leveraged and inverse versions of the funds would “enable investors to make directional trades and express their convictions, whether they are...
...and Whiting Petroleum....
...For instance, last week it published results of a recent research endeavour with the UK Met Office, Britain’s national weather and climate service, using machine learning to accurately pinpoint the timing...
...A recent spate of bankruptcies, such as those of Diamond Offshore Drilling and Whiting Petroleum in April, have knocked the performance of the investments, which can typically sustain up to four defaults...
...Future Shell wouldn’t be entirely green: it would use the existing natural gasfields to fund investment in renewables and its service stations....
...It tries to pinpoint, for example, how a tile or fabric was produced, with what ingredients and under what labour conditions. CookFox and Google crossed paths in 2010....
...The oil company has tapped debt markets, launched an initial public offering for its retail arm and brought international investors into its drilling, refining and trading businesses....
...Exactly how much ratings have soared is difficult to pinpoint, as Apple does not provide complete ratings data and history....
...Instrumentarian power can know and modify the behaviour of individuals, groups and populations in the service of surveillance capital....
...An effective moratorium on onshore development of CSG in New South Wales and Victoria, combined with the poor performance of existing CSG wells in Queensland, is causing many analysts to pinpoint LNG imports...
...“Until very recently, [oil and gas] companies have not had the tools or the capabilities needed to operate these assets at their maximum capacity,” McKinsey, the professional services firm, said in a recent...
...That would value MS Energy — a leading provider of directional drilling services, a term used to describe drilling at certain angles — at about $215m....
...capital rather than pursuing a “one-sided strategy” of “merely drilling for growth’s sake”, particularly if commodity prices fall....
...GLP’s scale means it is able to collect a large volume of data that can be offered to clients, helping pinpoint ideal locations in a city for warehouse operations....
...advanced healthcare services....
...It’s worth keeping an eye on the yen, probably one of the more actively-traded assets investors might glean directional insights from, and which is 0.2 per cent stronger this morning at Y110.96 per dollar...
...The industrial equipment maker has been buffeted by its exposure to the North American oil and gas sector, where drilling activity is down due to the collapse in crude prices....
...as result of a decline in drilling activity in 2015....
...The number of rigs drilling for oil has dropped from a peak of 214 to 37, and businesses, from small “mom and pop” service providers to venture capital companies, are trying to offload unused equipment....
...Last April, Halliburton pledged to sell its drill bits, directional drilling and measurement-while-drilling businesses....
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