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...Diamondback and Marathon Oil shelled out $3bn apiece to acquire land in the Permian and Eagle Ford basins....
...Carmaker Ford yesterday announced plans to build a $3.5bn battery factory in Marshall, Michigan....
...And fortunately a couple of decades later gasoline became the main product coming out of oil and Henry Ford and cars. But it started with a huge company....
...Because she now coaches top executives at companies that have included Ford and IBM, Scott comes from a different angle than most....
...I’m quite high up on their Ministry of Culture list, though.” (She is an officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.)...
...M&A rush One tenet of the new shale “religion” is that scale is critical to survival — but of operators, not the overall sector....
...On the day that the final car facilities across Europe halted, General Motors also drew $16bn from its credit facility, hot on the heels of Ford....
...Mark Hearld’s Harvest Hare, say, or the delightful Monkey and Birds by Sheila Robinson....
...“Capital is a lot more expensive now, and that’s a big part of what will drive the M&A market this year,” he said....
...Trucks, trailers, earth movers and other machines used in the nearby Eagle Ford shale formation were sold at rock-bottom prices....
...Mr Jiampietro was himself a former government official – a top adviser to Sheila Bair when she was chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...There are more treats: we get one of Dylan’s greatest middle period songs, “I’m Not There”, previously released in 2007 for the eponymous Todd Haynes movie but sounding more splendid than ever here....
...Cnooc agreed this month to buy 33 per cent of Chesapeake’s Eagle Ford oil and gas shale acreage in Texas for $1.08bn....
...He has bought a couple of large-screen televisions and invested some of his payout, buying stock in Ford Motor Company when it hit $2 – “I have a bunch of it,” he says....
...An M to go McDonald’s high-quality, higher-priced burger draws older and more occasional customers This spring, I visited McDonald’s “European Food Studio” in Munich to find out about the “M”, a new gourmet...
...And Haynes, who has made great ornaments of movie counter culture (Poison, Far from Heaven), is a fine advocate....
...Sheila McNulty is the FT’s US energy correspondent....
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