Activist investor Carl Icahn is calling on the leadership of Occidental Petroleum Corp. to reveal whether they were approached by any potential buyers prior to agreeing to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for $37 billion. The billionaire, who owns 3% of …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian Federal court judge said on Thursday an agreed A$15 billion ($10.1 billion) merger between a local joint venture of Britain’s Vodafone Group PLC and internet provider TPG Telecom Ltd would not lessen competition.
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OPEC cut its forecast for oil demand growth in the first quarter as the coronavirus hits fuel consumption in China. Bloomberg's Helen Robertson reports
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Shares of space company Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are shooting higher once again. In midday Wednesday trading, shares of the space tourism stock tacked on nearly 12% — then gave back more than half their gains to close the day up only 5.2%.
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President Trump has nominated conservative scholar Judy Shelton for a spot on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, arguably the most important economic policy team in the world. Shelton’s nomination is controversial, and several U.S. senators …
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