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...Wood Group, the UK oilfield services company, has increased the savings it expects to make from its proposed £2.2bn takeover of rival Amec Foster Wheeler by more than a third, as it continues to persuade...
...A series of deals since the start of the year highlight that point, including Standard Life’s takeover of Aberdeen Asset Management and Wood Group’s deal for Amec Foster Wheeler....
...Fresh from news that Wood Group, the Aberdeen-based oilfield services company, has launched a £2.2bn bid to buy it, Amec Foster Wheeler says it has snagged a contract worth up to $950m with the US Air Force...
...Retail broadband – the part where Comcast et al. connect to their customers – would continue to be a lightly-regulated information service, which Mr Wheeler hopes will assuage concerns that the FCC is tying...
...AL: By taking on voluntary work? DG: I was thinking more in terms of setting up a $1bn hedge fund. AL: That would do it round here. Last week I helped an ex-UBS guy buy a B&B in the Dordogne....
...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...Mr Clarke’s road to Damascus moment came only recently: he cites the Stern review, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and the influence of his daughter Jo, 25, who works for Otesha, a sustainable lifestyle...
...Lady Judge said the buyer was “at least as likely to be a British company as a foreign one”....
...Mr al-Sanea’s Saad Investment also owns a near 3 per cent stake in HSBC, which slipped 0.8 per cent to 552p....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Now he is leaving the company’s supporters with a huge sense of let-down....
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