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by Himanshu Singh on Mar 12, 2013 at 02:33
All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks
Barclays PLC
- Bloomberg: Barclays quit as co-manager of Honduras’s first international bond sale after learning about a pending lawsuit that wasn’t initially included in the sales prospectus
- Bloomberg: Absa Asset Management, a Johannesburg-based unit of Barclays, plans to set up a $100 million fund to invest in African shares, said Managing Director Busisa Jiya
BP PLC
- Bloomberg: The BP-led Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline shipped less Azeri oil in the first two months of the year as the country’s crude production declined
- UPI: The European Commission said it cleared the way for the proposed acquisition of Russian energy company Rosneft of its Anglo-Russian joint venture rival TNK-BP
- Reuters: German Khan and Viktor Vekselberg, two of the tycoons who shared control of Russia's third largest oil producer with BP for much of the past decade, will leave their management posts at the end of the week when their sale of the company to Rosneft is closed
Diageo PLC
- Live Mint: India’s stock market regulator has approved UK-based Diageo’s proposal to acquire a majority stake in Vijay Mallya-run United Spirits for $2 billion, with the unusual inclusion of a key clause that will allow the buyer to sell the assets of the company
- Yahoo!: Diageo said on Monday it was targeting annual cost savings of £60 million through a review of its global supply operations
HSBC Holdings PLC
- Economic Times: HSBC saw its headcount in India decline by 2,000 persons in 2012, recording the fourth consecutive year of decreasing employee strength in the country
- International Business Times: HSBC, the only major UK bank not participating in the British government's Funding for Lending programme, revealed it is making £5 billion available to businesses with a turnover of up to £25 million in 2013
Lloyds Group PLC
- Financial Times: Lloyds Banking Group is set to cash in on the record share price of St James’s Place by selling at least a third of its majority holding in the FTSE 250 wealth manager, raising more than £500 million
National Grid PLC
- Fox Business: National Grid opened books on a planned hybrid bond, denominated in euros and sterling, one of the banks involved in the deal said on Monday
Rio Tinto PLC
- Reuters: Rio Tinto has slowed progress of its multi-billion investment in Guinea's untapped Simandou iron ore deposit and slashed staff, government sources in the West African country said on Monday
Royal Dutch Shell Plc
- Reuters: Rosneft awarded its semi-annual April-September jumbo crude tender on Monday with most of the volumes secured by Shell, traders said
- Trade Arabia: Shell Global Solutions International has signed a gasification licensed technology agreement with Saudi Aramco, the fully integrated energy and chemicals company, for the largest residue gasification unit to ever be built
- Philippine Daily Inquirer: Shell Companies in the Philippines has urged the Aquino administration to lay down the necessary programs and infrastructure that would allow investments in natural gas projects to be more lucrative and attractive to prospective investors
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