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Shell shareholders approve $49 bln BG takeover

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Shareholders of Royal Dutch Shell approved the company's $49 billion takeover of smaller rival BG Group at a special stakeholder meeting in The Hague on Wednesday. As many as 83.08 percent of shareholders voted in favour of the deal, one of the lar

Royal Dutch Shell Shareholders Vote In Favour Of BG Group Takeover

Shell shareholders approve BG takeover

(ShareCast News) - Royal Dutch Shell has received shareholder approval for its £35bn takeover of BG Group, with 83% voting in favour of the deal, which would create the world's largest liquefield natural gas trader. If BG shareholders approve the offer at their meeting on Thursday, the deal would be

UPDATE 1-Dutch gas exports cannot be cut before 2024, minister says

(Adds economy minister comment) AMSTERDAM, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Dutch gas exports to neighboring countries cannot be cut before 2024 because technical adjustments need to be made so those countries can use gas from other sources, Economy Minister Henk Kamp told parliament Tuesday. The r

Dutch Labour party wants gas exports cut before 2024 - party official

AMSTERDAM, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Dutch Labour party, the junior partner in the coalition government, wants gas exports from the Netherlands to be cut more rapidly than currently planned, a party official told parliament on Tuesday. Production at the Groningen gas field, Europe's largest, i

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Commodity Stocks Suffer As Crude Prices Retreat

Brazil oil-unitization rules block $120 bln in investment -IBP

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's lack of clear rules for the unitization of oilfields is delaying the development of as many as 10 billion barrels of oil and gas and about $120 billion of investment, Jorge Camargo, head of Brazil's oil industry association IBP said on Monday. Uni

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Banks Weigh On FTSE 100 Amid PPI Fears

Oil prices to challenge EMEA majors' ratings, Fitch says

(ShareCast News) - Weak oil prices in 2016 will leave five of seven large European oil companies with financial leverage above the level Fitch Ratings normally considers appropriate for their current ratings, by a median of 0.6x, according to the ratings agency's latest financial forecasts. In a not

HSBC cuts targets on global integrated oil majors

(ShareCast News) - Oil markets continued to be strongly oversupplied and the macroeconomic backdrop dire, but 'big oil' was adapting aggressively, which would see it through the storm in the short-term, analysts at HSBC said. Be that as it may, the broker lowered its target prices for all the stocks

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Flat Trade As Oil Rally Fades, Fed Meeting Looms

Total to make most spending cuts among oil majors - ratings agency Fitch

LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - French oil group Total has to make the steepest cuts to investments and shareholder returns among Europe's oil majors if oil prices remain weak, in order to maintain its current credit rating, Fitch said on Monday. Total's spending has to fall by around a third t

Sunday newspaper round-up: HMRC's new tax deals, Tesco's debt, Sainsbury's

(ShareCast News) - In the wake of Google's £130m tax settlement with the UK taxman, other giant US corporations are close to shaking hands on their own deals. HM Revenue & Customs officials have confirmed to the Sunday Times that Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and McDonald's are all close to agreements

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Oil Rebound, Draghi Comments Lift Global Stocks

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Oil Bounce, ECB Stimulus Hopes Drive Stock Rally