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...More energy industry news: Chevron has warned that its planned $53bn acquisition of Hess could be thwarted by rivals ExxonMobil and China National Offshore Oil Corporation....
...Chevron has agreed to buy rival oil and gas producer Hess Corporation in a $53bn all-stock deal....
...On the latest front in the environmental, social and governance battles testing all corporations, it was the anti-ESG forces that carried the day....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...American Airlines took a hit, with the stock falling 1.5 per cent, while energy company Hess Corporation dropped 3.3 per cent....
...On Monday Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, set out plans for a global minimum corporation tax on the eve of the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank....
...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
...Plus, the FT’s capital market’s correspondent Rob Smith explains how Carnival Corporation managed to persuade investors to put their money into the ailing cruise company....
...Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group, argued that powerful corporations were “trying to weasel their way out” of their responsibilities...
...(BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Legal experts warn that researchers and corporations are exploiting social media, scraping photos without the knowledge of the people who posted them....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...Activist companies sell their vision of the world — letter from Mark Eisinger From climate change to gun rights, corporations are taking the lead....
...She was appointed as the first cyber security counsel for a major corporation, at IBM....
...During the financial crisis, the real-time, practical manifestation of the liquidity v. solvency debate was about what financial institutions were worth saving....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...Lily Le Brun Photographs: Mike Kitcatt/V&A; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Christina Smith/V&A; Kawaii Monster Café Harajuku; Gion; Pip Barnard/V&A; A Astes/Alamy; James Jaron/V&A...
...alison.smith@ft.com...
...Carlos V of Spain said priests who plonked a Gothic cathedral in the middle of Cordoba’s Great Mosque had tainted the exceptional with the ordinary....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
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