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...Jefferies served as prime broker to the Oklahoma-based fund, known as Carbon Fund, which was focused on long/short bets in the industrial sector....
...In the months leading up to his resignation, Mr Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney-general, had survived a near-daily deluge of allegations that he used the office of the top US environmental regulator for...
...Oklahoma-based Williams Companies agreed to purchase the 26 per cent of its Williams Partners MLP that it does not already own for $10.5bn....
...The split came as the US Energy Information Administration showed US inventories fell for the first time in five weeks, but stockpiles at the Cushing, Oklahoma delivery hub had risen to a record high....
...Just before the Tokyo open, the Bank of Japan posts minutes of its November 18-19 meeting....
...The conclusion comes from a new paper by Vikas Raman, of Warwick Business School, Veljko Fotak, of the University of Buffalo School of Management, and Pradeep Yadav, of the University of Oklahoma....
...In futures markets, the discount of US West Texas Intermediate crude delivered at inland Cushing, Oklahoma recently shrank to as little as $3 a barrel to Brent, before widening on last week’s surprise rise...
...Today, in the same building as Apollo overlooking New York’s Central Park, KKR is looking at billions of dollars of losses on the $7.2bn investment it led in Samson, an Oklahoma-based oil and gas exploration...
...In the latest crop progress report from the US department of agriculture, scouts reported dust storms in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and a significant lack of moisture....
...He left Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy, the second-largest natural gas producer in the US, earlier this year after a clash with the board....
...The buyers of the Kings intend to move the team to Seattle, which lost its NBA franchise in 2008 when the Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City and were renamed the Thunder....
...regions of Oklahoma, widely seen as two of the most promising areas for the future....
...Sandridge Energy, the Oklahoma-based oil and gas company, has sold assets in the Permian basin region of Texas for $2.6bn after coming under pressure from shareholders over the quality of its management....
...A spokesman for the consortium, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, says that only the city has the authority to raise rates....
...Subtlety is not the aim of political stagecraft. When Barack Obama stands next to a stack of unassembled pipelines in Oklahoma on Thursday the message will be clear: “I am not an enemy of oil.”...
...Gavilon recently completed construction of 4m barrels of crude oil storage tanks at Cushing, Oklahoma, the centre of the US oil market....
...That, say insiders, would be a pity, because the 51-year-old Oklahoma native with the quick wit and mischievous chuckle who stepped into the oversized shoes of his mentor, “Big Ed” Whitacre, when he took...
...WCAS Fraser Sullivan is to take over management of the assets and will generate cash for creditors by selling a series of collateralised loan obligations – instruments that pool assets, which are then sliced...
...“He came to see me performing in Oklahoma in [London’s] West End in 1998 and said he could see a movie career for me,” says Hugh Jackman, who has become one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars....
...At the end of last year, Japanese trading firm Itochu joined KKR in a $7bn investment in Samson, an Oklahoma energy firm while its great rival Marubeni is taking a big stake in a Texas oil and gas venture...
...Oklahoma-based Samson has been working with Jefferies since the earlier this year in considering a sale of the company or a joint venture partner....
...But a glut at its delivery point in Cushing, Oklahoma, after regional production surged has imposed a large markdown. This month WTI’s discount widened to a record $23 a barrel....
...It is also expanding rapidly in energy, building what amounts to nearly 10 per cent of the crude storage capacity at a key Oklahoma pipeline hub....
...While his Dallas office – complete with helmets from the Oklahoma Sooners, his university football team – exudes an air of calm authority, this is the most difficult period for Mr Stephenson since he became...
...After taking into account storage and financing costs investors would earn about 11 percent, according to Andy Lipow, president of Houston consultant Lipow Oil Associates LLC....
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