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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... target Arrow Energy was three cents richer at $5.18 after the Foreign Investment Review Board approved the joint Royal Dutch Shell/PetroChina takeover bid for Arrow. On Wall Street overnight, stocks closed higher, after another series of upbeat earnings ...

NZ Super buys Shell assets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
A consortium including the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has bought the Royal Dutch Shell's New Zealand distribution business assets for more than $540 million. The deal includes all Shell's "downstream assets", which include the business' retail ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... vote its 16.7 per cent stake in the company in favour of the $4.70 per share takeover bid for that company by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina. "New Hope has capitulated so there will be a bit of loss-taking with the enthusiasm that there was going to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... the energy sector, as Arrow Energy recommended its shareholders accept a new, improved joint takeover bid from Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina Co Ltd. Arrow shares were down 19 cents, or 3.59 per cent, to $5.10. "It is quite amazing, Arrow's share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... cent, to $5.77 as the market digested optimistic forecasts about liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Asia Pacific region from Shell, and after the partners in the PNG LNG project announced go ahead for the massive project. Woodside Petroleum added 50 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... than $US100 billion ($A110.29 billion) in government bailout money it received during the credit crisis. Also, Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina offered to buy Australia's Arrow Energy Ltd for $US3 billion ($A3.31 billion) in cash and stock. Royal Dutch ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... seen BHP secure 200 tonnes of their coking coal for the quarter, and we've had some corporate activity involving Arrow and Shell." BHP Billiton was trading 99 cents, or 2.33 per cent, higher at $43.49 after announcing it had agreed to new coking coal ...

Rise of mini-mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... such as the Instreet LINK series and the ARC series, which are deferred purchase agreements (DPAs) with a twist. Investors shell out a one-off upfront payment of, say $12,500, which is a fraction of the size of the notional exposure of their investment ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Searle over $10,600,000. Searle then paid the lion's share of placement fees received from Carlyle to PB Placement, LLC, a shell company controlled by Morris. Unbeknownst to Carlyle, Morris had allegedly entered into a fee-splitting arrangement to pay ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Head fake. So which one is the head fake? The Dow climbing past 10,000 or the Dow sinking below 10K? Over the past three trading days, the Dow has been playing seesaw on the 10,000 fulcrum -- over 10K Thursday, under 10K Friday, over 10K Monday. To ...