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...About 70 per cent of that production is natural gas, prices for which have soared this year as Russia has choked supply to Europe....
...The courage of her convictions On a rainy Thanksgiving last November, I found myself in a pink Spanish colonial house in a leafy suburb of Nashville, Tennessee....
...John McAfee’s extraordinary lifeJohn McAfee, the antivirus software pioneer whose scandal-plagued life made him a staple of tabloid headlines, was found dead in a Spanish prison cell, after a court ruled...
...Job moves TSB chair Richard Meddings has announced he will resign from the bank’s board later this year, after its Spanish owner Sabadell postponed plans to sell the British bank. More here....
...In November last year, it launched a green aluminium brand, linked to the heavy use of hydropower in its output production....
...“This will not be some Miami-style fake Spanish village.” The hotel tower will be clad in wood and strewn with gardens, including full-size trees on the upper floors....
...Here is the rest of the economic calendar (UK time): 08.00: Spanish inflation (final reading) 09.00: Italian industrial production 09.30: UK inflation 09.30: UK house prices 10.00: Eurozone employment 10.00...
...The utility generates more than two-thirds of its electricity production with oil....
...Meanwhile, data showed that US producer price inflation rose more than expected last month while industrial production rebounded after slipping back in May....
...Repsol goes from having almost all of its production in emerging economies — with all the political risk that entails — to having more than a third of its production in developed ones....
...“We’re incredibly sad to announce that, due to recent changes in Spanish law, we will be removing Spanish publishers from Google News and closing Google News in Spain,” said Richard Gingras, head of Google...
...Italy’s 10-year government bond yield fell 4 basis points to 4.25 per cent, while the equivalent Spanish yield eased 3bp to 4.546 per cent....
...Spanish hydropower generation fell by 25 per cent over the period....
...The 51-year-old Brunel university engineering graduate has been focusing on diversifying Centrica’s energy supplies, and was behind the group’s acquisition of North Sea oil group Venture Production in 2009...
...It has also been involved in restructuring negotiations at Dubai International Capital’s alumina business Almatis and Spanish plastic packaging producer La Seda de Barcelona....
...The FTSE Eurofirst 300 rose 0.9 per cent to 1,261.02, as the release of unexpectedly strong eurozone industrial production data also gave a fillip to stocks....
...Last year Oman was due to sell the bulk of its liquefied natural gas production to Spain....
...Realia rose 3.9 per cent to €6.63 after UBS initiated coverage on the Spanish real estate company with a “buy” recommendation and €81.0 price target....
...The union leadership hopes workers will vote on Friday to support industrial action, and that French and Spanish unions will call sympathy strikes....
...Mr Pötsch said the VW brand was still doing badly, although it returned to profit thanks to a sharp rise in sales and production....
...Pardon his French Jean-François Roverato, chairman and managing director of the French construction group Eiffage, does not appear keen on linking up with Spanish counterpart Sacyr Vallehermoso....
...The broker cited the easing back of the company’s production growth target last week to 6 per cent annually until 2010 rather than the previous forecast of 8 per cent each year until 2008....
...Delays to returning to full production at the Porvoo refinery were responsible for the profit warning....
...Shares in Telefónica, however, dropped 2.3 per cent to €13.31 when they resumed trading after suspension by the Spanish stock market regulator....
...Arcelor, the world’s second-biggest steelmaker, climbed 3.4 per cent to €16.55 after it said it would continue to cut production in the third quarter of the year in the face of falling demand....
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