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...Rotterdam-based Vitol, whose chief executive sits in London, has had “conversations with a lot of [its] stakeholders to impress upon them the efforts that we’re putting in”, he added....
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...Mercuria’s rivals including Trafigura, Vitol and Gunvor have also been expanding their gas and power teams. Mercuria and O’Kane declined to comment....
...An oil price range of $80 to $100 per barrel “feels like a sensible range”, the chief executive of Dutch oil trading company Vitol told the FT’s Commodities Summit on Tuesday, as global oil prices traded...
...Revenues at Vitol fell 20 per cent last year, as prices of commodities like oil and gas moderated....
...In the UK, Vitol owns and operates five power plants through its partially owned subsidiary VPI, making it a bigger power generator than Centrica....
...Last year Vitol reported $400bn in revenues, while Trafigura posted $244bn in revenues and a record $7.4bn in profit....
...Even with all those perks, France’s protective labour laws are proving to be a problem for Wall Street. Vitol has another blockbuster year with $13bn profit Vitol is on a winning streak....
...The agreed deal to purchase a controlling stake in Saras, which has a refinery in Sardinia, from the family of Italian billionaire Massimo Moratti came less than a year after Vitol had lost out to rival...
...However, the Civitas sale suggests the trading house made a significant return in just over two years. Vitol said it remains committed to making future upstream investments....
...The S&P 500 narrowly missed out on recording its longest winning streak since January after closing fractionally lower....
...Privately held Vitol, which employs about 1,800 people, made a record $15.1bn in net profit in 2022 and about $13bn in 2023, making it one of the most profitable companies in the world on a per capita basis...
...The S&P 500 was at risk of ending a four-day winning streak in a bout of muted trading on Wall Street. The benchmark index was flat in Wednesday afternoon trading....
...A broad rally for US equities lifted the S&P 500 to a three-week high and brought up its first four-session winning streak since March....
...The S&P 500 climbed to its highest level in a month as traders had higher hopes for rate cuts after the publication of soft labour market data....
...Vitol said it was “very aware of the challenges facing households” and highlighted plans to invest more than £1.5bn over the next five years....
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...Last week a former trader at rival Vitol was found guilty in New York of bribing officials in Ecuador and Mexico....
...The bank’s upgrade follows its forecast last week that Brent crude prices will hit $90 a barrel by the third-quarter....
...Oil trader Vitol agreed to pay more than $160mn to authorities in the US and Brazil in 2020 for bribery in Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico. Additional reporting by Michael Pooler...
...S&P said it originally expected the war would not last “more than six months” as it downgraded Israel’s sovereign credit rating from double A minus to A plus....
...The benchmark S&P 500 fell 0.2 per cent on Thursday afternoon, notching five straight daily losses for the first time since October....
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