MarketWatch.com: Stars aligning for Royal Dutch Shell Tuesday 28 June 2005 Rising crude price, index reweighting giving a boost By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch LONDON (MarketWatch) — For a company recovering from a scandal surrounding its overstatement of proven oil reserves, the stars could hardly be aligning better for Royal Dutch Shell. Shell (RD: news, chart, [...]
Posts on ‘June 28th, 2005’
Financial Times: Much agonising over what to do
Financial Times: Much agonising over what to do Tuesday 28 June 2005 The shareholder base of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport and Trading is so varied that investors inevitably disagree on whether the restructuring marks the end or the beginning of reform for the group, writes Sundeep Tucker. At the height of the scandal last [...]
Shell prepares for the next merger round
Financial Times: Shell prepares for the next merger round “The reserves debacle had seriously dented shareholder confidence” Tuesday 28 June 2005 By Ian Bickerton, James Boxell, Thomas Catan and Henry Tricks On the top floor of London’s towering Shell Centre, a cavernous boardroom looms over the Houses of Parliament, filled with high-backed chairs and rows [...]
Shell merger poses new risk
Financial Times: Shell merger poses new risk Tuesday 28 June 2005 By Paul Betts Royal Dutch/Shell is expected to approve on Tuesday a corporate revolution by merging its two separately quoted arms into a single company headquartered in the Netherlands with its primary listing in London. This is likely to double the Anglo-Dutch major’s weighting [...]
UK holdings of Shell far too low
Financial Times: UK holdings of Shell far too low Tuesday 28 June 2005 By Tony Tassell, Tom Catan, Ian Bickerton, James Boxell and Sundeep Tucker, UK institutional shareholders still need to buy billions of pounds worth of shares in Shell to pump up their exposure to the oil major following its planned merger with Royal [...]
Record gas discovery in India could hit projects
The Times (UK): Record gas discovery in India could hit projects June 28, 2005 By Carl Mortishead, International Business Editor INDIA has claimed its biggest gas discovery, a deposit in the Bay of Bengal that could double the country’s gas production and bring into question major projects to import liquefied natural gas into the country. [...]
Shareholders Set to OK Shell Unification (AP)
Schaeffers Research, Ohio: Shareholders Set to OK Shell Unification (AP) 28 June 2005 By ANTHONY DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer THE HAGUE, Netherlands Shareholders are expected to approve the merger of the Anglo-Dutch parent companies of Royal Dutch/Shell on Tuesday, ending a century-old dual corporate structure at the world’s third largest oil producer. Shell announced the [...]
Shell investors set to ditch dual listed structure
Reuters: Shell investors set to ditch dual listed structure:nif Tue Jun 28, 2005 By Tom Bergin, European Oil and Gas Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch/Shell (SHEL.L: Quote, Profile, Research) (RD.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) shareholders are expected to end a century of history on Tuesday when they vote on scrapping the group’s dual-listed structure. Shell [...]
BBC News: Shell investors to vote on merger: Shell is planning the biggest overhaul in its 100-year history
BBC News: Shell investors to vote on merger: Shell is planning the biggest overhaul in its 100-year history Tuesday 28 June 2005 Investors in Shell will be asked to vote on a plan to merge the Anglo-Dutch oil company’s two management boards, creating a firm worth Ł120bn ($219bn). It is currently 40%-owned by Shell and [...]
Financial Times: Lombard: Shell game that keeps investors guessing
Financial Times: Lombard: Shell game that keeps investors guessing Tuesday 28 June 2005 By Martin Dickson Forget Suduko. The mind-boggling numbers game that is currently occupying fund managers is how to rearrange holdings of Royal Dutch and Shell following expected shareholder approval on Tuesday of the merger of the Dutch and British companies. Effectively, unification [...]
Financial Times: OBSERVER: Circular Shell
Financial Times: OBSERVER: Circular Shell Tuesday 28 June 2005 ABN Amro has invested considerable energy down the years in its relationship with Royal Dutch/Shell, the oil and gas giant whose shareholders are today expected to vote to scrap nearly a century of dual-headed governance. The Dutch bank is itself the product of a patchwork of [...]
Financial Times: Lex live: Royal Dutch/Shell
Financial Times: Lex live: Royal Dutch/Shell Tuesday 28 June 2005 UK budgets under Gordon Brown’s tenure have shown that taxation and simplicity rarely go hand in hand. But the complexities produced by Royal Dutch/Shell’s unification give the chancellor a run for his money. To avoid Shell shareholders having to pay Dutch withholding tax – and [...]
Channel4 News: Shell investors vote for merger
Channel4 News: Shell investors vote for merger Tuesday 28 June 2005 Source: ITN Shareholders in the Shell oil firm have voted 99.75 per cent in favour of a plan to create a new holding company, Royal Dutch Shell. Shell is currently 60 per cent owned by Royal Dutch Petroleum and 40 per cent by the [...]
London Evening Standard: Shell and Royal Dutch merge
London Evening Standard: Shell and Royal Dutch merge Robert Lea, 28 June 2005 STRONG share-buying in Shell is likely to continue for several days and weeks because of the unprecedented shake-up at the giant oil major, and despite fears from investors that the company could be on the verge of a rash acquisitions programme. Shareholders [...]
Shell Accused of Hanging Shareholders ‘Out to Dry’
The Scotsman: Shell Accused of Hanging Shareholders ‘Out to Dry’ Tuesday 28 June 2005 By David Winning, PA City Staff Shell shareholders today expressed anger at an Ł80 million tax bill that will follow the biggest overhaul in the oil giant’s 100 year history. They accused the board of “hanging them out to dry” by [...]
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