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...By the end of the year OCI had agreed to offload two fertiliser holdings for about $3.6bn apiece, to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Koch Industries of the US....
...the crisp company....
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...Five unmissable asset management stories this week Dan Loeb’s activist hedge fund Third Point has built a large stake in Royal Dutch Shell and called for the oil supermajor to break itself up....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...We told you about PIF’s big spending spree during the March coronavirus crisis meltdown, when it snapped up large stakes in travel and oil companies, two of the most severely affected sectors....
...It has also invested in about 20 US and European blue-chip companies, such as BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Boeing, Citigroup, Disney and Facebook, acquiring smaller stakes worth at least $7.7bn in the first...
...In recent weeks the PIF has snapped up stakes in beleaguered cruise line operator Carnival and European oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell and Total, whose shares have been hit by the collapse in...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Over the next few weeks some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies will hold their annual shareholder meetings (May 5)....
...The letter from fund managers on climate change: Oil and gas groups must do more to support climate accord / From Aberdeen Standard Investments et al...
...And if it’s electrons and if it’s V-Power [petrol and diesel] and if it’s hydrogen, we want to be there for our customers” — Jessica Uhl, chief financial officer of Royal Dutch Shell, discusses the company...
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...Seven oil and gas groups, including France’s Total, Royal Dutch Shell and Norway’s Statoil, have together invested almost $15bn in renewables over the past four years, according to the Oil and Gas Climate...
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...Eventually, he hopes, the car companies and even oil companies will embrace fuel choice. He sees the barriers more as problems of corporate inertia and ignorance than of opposing interests....
...Qatar may be the home to two US military bases at Al Udeid and As Sayliyah but it is also partly responsible for the survival and success of some aggressive terrorist groups....
...As well as its Nigerian founders, Maurel et Prom, French oil group, and Mercuria, the Swiss-based commodities trading house, are big shareholders in the group....
...Politicians have vowed to crack down on so-called shell companies used to hide criminals’ funds, and to strengthen laws against money laundering....
...(WSJ) Vitol buys Shell’s Australian downstream assets for $2.6bn: The move by oil traders to buy refiners comes as oil majors are quitting the sector in order to focus on more profitable investments, particularly...
...When Iraq held its first postwar oil licensing round in June 2009, groups like ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP flocked to Baghdad for what was one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the oil industry...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
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