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...Monday after Israel said it had withdrawn its troops from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, easing fears that the conflict would escalate, Brent is up about 16 per cent this year, while the US benchmark West Texas...
...International oil benchmark Brent crude and US gauge West Texas Intermediate have topped $100 a barrel this year, fuelled by the Ukraine war....
...“Our challenge is going to be how do we get the cadence [of production and launch] up.”...
...The market’s “peak ESG concerns have been fading”, said Matt Portillo, an analyst at Texas-based investment bank TPH, referring to environmental, social and governance investing....
...Many are employed by talent agency Productions Plus, helmed by president Hedy Popson....
...Candle acquired Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine for $900mn in August and has struck deals with kids’ media group Moonbug Entertainment and Will Smith’s production company Westbrook....
...Opec agrees to accelerate oil production The oil cartel and its allies agreed to accelerate production in July and August, as Saudi Arabia bowed to US pressure to cool a crude price rally that has threatened...
...In May it said it was exiting smartphone production to focus on EVs....
...The company last month sold its Permian shale oil business in Texas for $9.5bn, an area it had previously described as core to its oil and gas business....
...The company last month sold its Permian shale oil business in Texas for $9.5bn and promised to return $7bn of that to shareholders....
...Now snow hits semisThe Arctic weather sweeping through Texas is threatening to exacerbate a global shortage in semiconductors, after several manufacturing plants near Austin were forced to shut down....
...Electronics companies are seeking to adjust to the fallout from the US-China trade war and evade soaring production costs in the world’s second-largest economy....
...The two firms, as junior creditors, had been leading a “backstop” group that was committing to recapitalise EP Energy, a Texas-based driller that Apollo previously owned but had filed for bankruptcy protection...
...EP Energy, whose drilling activities are focused on Texas and Utah, had been acquired by an investor group led by Apollo in 2012 for $7.2bn....
...Ultimately, however, CureVac’s decision to raise money it needs for an increase of vaccine production on the capital markets in New York may point to a larger problem for Berlin....
...The pair were going to invest nearly $500m together with co-investors to recapitalise the Texas and Utah driller....
...If headlines around the world this week calling for stricter US gun control following mass shootings in Texas and Ohio felt grimly familiar, one name that cropped up among the coverage, for most, did not...
...The owner of the Miss Universe beauty pageant and the Ultimate Fighting Championship martial arts franchise, Endeavor was valued at $6.3bn in 2017....
...Texas-based Blue Orca earlier this year accused the company of falsifying data. Last year, Hong Kong-based GMT Research accused Anta of improper accounting. The company denied both accusations....
...Additional reporting and production by Adrienne Klasa...
...In addition to cargoes from Europe, petrol may flow from Texas via the massive Colonial Pipeline or from a refinery in Atlantic Canada....
...Today, for example, my dashboard is encouraging me to make good on a 99 per cent match with the new Netflix film Dumplin’, about a Texas teenager who enters herself into a local pageant, one of whose judges...
...Brent, the international marker, was flat at $69.27 a barrel on Friday while the main US price, West Texas Intermediate, was down 0.3 per cent at $63.66 a barrel....
...By midday, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, was down more than 0.6 per cent to $55.36, while Brent, the international standard, was down 0.4 per cent to $61.96....
...Brent inched further up in the morning session in Asia on Wednesday, climbing 0.1 per cent to $58.40 a barrel while the key US marker, West Texas Intermediate, was off 0.1 per cent at $52.43....
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