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...Up-and-comer Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, the Qatari heir vying to buy Manchester United featured in this FT profile, is willing to trade his low profile in exchange for the prestigious football club...
...Suhail Al Mazrouei, energy minister of the United Arab Emirates, said Opec+ was cutting to avert a price plunge such as the one that took place in the second half of 2008, when oil collapsed to $30 a barrel...
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...And we just heard the Secretary of Energy in the United States talk about that....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...The United Arab Emirates will start producing the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from April, helping the Gulf state accelerate plans to supply coronavirus jabs around the world....
...The US transport sector is the biggest contributor to the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, and gasoline is by far its most consumed petroleum product....
...Petroleum LLP was valued at about $220m shortly afterwards, another email shows....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...- FT Alphaville The United States Oil Fund mystery, revived - FT Alphaville...
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...“In India, solar energy and other renewable sources of energy are becoming increasingly competitive,” says Dharmendra Pradhan, the country’s petroleum minister....
...The two Gulf states promised to transfer $500m into the Sudanese central bank to plug depleted foreign currency reserves. A further $2.5bn will be sent in food, medicine and petroleum products....
...And we have evidence that this is starting to happen in the United States as well. That's right. So this is where I'm going to reach over and get our friendly globe prop....
...Abu Dhabi’s state energy giant has unveiled plans to boost oil production capacity to 4m barrels a day by the end of 2020 and 5m b/d by 2030 as part of a $132bn plan....
...Quote of the week “The biggest oil and gas producer is the United States . . . [US oil] producers are probably breathing a sigh of relief....
...Al Walker, chief executive of Anadarko Petroleum, a US independent oil producer, observed at the CERAWeek conference in Houston last year that although the company recorded a lot of data, “we don’t do that...
...On the box of every Apple product you’ll find the words “Designed in California”. We might think the capital of design is Milan or Paris, perhaps London....
...We see similar patterns across census regions within the United States....
...First, Brunnermeier et al use ESBies as a way to deny joint liability among sovereigns....
...Stephen Chazen, chief executive of Occidental Petroleum, warned of a “false bottom — or two or three or four”....
...According to Egan et al, the chance any given doctor is sued for malpractice in any given year is quite low, comparable to the probability a random financial adviser is penalised for wrongdoing....
...Just enjoy our products and show some damn gratitude. Live long and prosper. Well, live long anyway....
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