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英蘭シェル、キルクーク油田開発 中国石油大手２社と共同入札を巡り交渉
Shell, China Firms Eye Iraq Oil (WSJ.com)
SHANGHAI -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is in advanced talks with China's two biggest state-owned oil companies on a possible joint bid to develop the Kirkuk oil field in northern Iraq, a person familiar with the situation said.
Shell, China National Petroleum Corp. and China Petrochemical Corp. have yet to decide on their stakes in the venture, this person said. Shell offered CNPC a 15% stake, but CNPC has sought around 20%, the person said. CNPC is the parent of PetroChina Co., shares of which trade in Hong Kong.
... A joint bid in Iraq would mark China's latest effort to tap Iraq's rich energy resources. CNPC in November signed a $3 billion oil-service contract with the Iraqi Oil Ministry to develop the Ahdab oil field in central Iraq.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123961996141013261.html
仏石油大手トタル、加UTS買収価格を引き上げ
Total Raises Offer of UTS Energy (WSJ.com)
Total SA sweetened its offer for Canadian oil-sands developer UTS Energy Corp. by 35%, boosting the proposed acquisition's value to roughly 830 million Canadian dollars ($676 million).
The French energy company raised its bid to C$1.75 a share from C$1.30 and extended the deadline by 11 days to April 27. The initial bid was made in late January, when the stock was at C$0.83.
Nearly two weeks after Total made its approach public, UTS rejected the bid as an "inadequate and opportunistic" offer following the plunge in crude prices. Since then, however, crude prices have risen off their lows.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123963043184213475.html
米AIG信用不安、ドイツ地方都市と米公共交通機関を窮地に セールス＆リースバック方式
Towns in Germany and Transit in Washington Feel AIG Pinch (WSJ.com)
The ripple effects of American International Group Inc.'s woes have spread from the bastions of global finance to U.S. transit authorities to little towns throughout Germany.
... The notion was this: Localities could earn millions of dollars selling their infrastructure to U.S. banks and other investors in deals guaranteed by U.S. banks and insurance companies. The investors would get a tax break (a break that isn't allowed any longer), the benefits of which they would share with the municipalities.
The deals generally called for top-rated guarantors to insure the municipalities' invested funds. Amid the financial crisis, downgrades of those guarantors have forced the governments to pump in more cash or other collateral, in some cases to the banks that bought the infrastructure, to compensate for the guarantor's lower credit standing with the investors. If they can't, they must cancel the deals at a loss.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123957945546512081.html
北朝鮮のロケット発射、韓国がPSIに全面参加へ 北が払う最大の代償に
Seoul Plans Tough Action on Pyongyang (WSJ.com)
SEOUL -- South Korea is about to make it harder for North Korea to ship missiles and components to other countries, a step that may turn out to be the highest price that Pyongyang pays for its test of a long-range missile last week.
South Korean officials on Monday said they were close to a final decision to become full participants in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, in which countries stop suspected transporters of weapons of mass destruction and related technology on land, sea and air.
"We're making final tuning with other relevant countries," Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said in a hearing at the National Assembly. Mr. Yu said both before and after North Korea's April 5 missile test that South Korea would likely join PSI as a penalty.
Proliferation Security Initiative: PSI、大量破壊兵器拡散防止構想
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123961882570213231.html
メキシコ鉱山会社グルポ・メヒコ、経営破たん米アサルコに13億ドル提示 印スターライトの提示額を下回る
Grupo Mexico offers $1.3 bln for bankrupt Asarco (Reuters)
MEXICO CITY, April 13 (Reuters) - Grupo Mexico offered $1.3 billion in cash to recover bankrupt U.S. miner Asarco in a U.S. court on Monday, a Grupo Mexico lawyer said.
In the middle of court proceedings in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jorge Lazalde confirmed the amount of the offer, saying more details will be available after the hearing concludes.
The offer is lower than the $1.7 billion -- $1.1 billion in cash, plus a $600 million in notes -- offered by India's Sterlite Industries (STRL.BO), a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc (VED.L), to take over the ailing Arizona-based miner, weighed down by heavy environmental claims.
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1338344520090413
米ゴールドマンの１－３月期、最終利益18億ドル 50億ドル公募増資を発表、TARP資金全額返済へ
Goldman Sachs Announces First Quarter Profits of $1.8 Billion (Washington Post)
NEW YORK - Goldman Sachs announced first quarter earnings this afternoon that were far better than analysts expected and said it would raise $5 billion through a stock offering in order to repay taxpayer funds.
Goldman, which received $10 billion in federal rescue funds, said it would use the money from the stock sale "plus additional resources" to return the full amount of the government investment "after the completion of the stress assessment, if permitted by our supervisors and if supported by the results of the stress assessment."
... While six smaller banks have returned federal funds, analysts say Goldman's move to exit from the Troubled Assets Relief Program will put pressure on other large banks to follow suit, threatening to diminish the government's efforts to stabilize the financial system and support new lending to consumers and businesses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041301989.html?hpid=topnews
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