Thursday, April 23, 2015

Edmund Shing: Shell's bumper BG deal could start wave of oil and gas tak...


 
Has a rush to buy up oil and gas companies just started? Royal Dutch Shell is set to become by far the largest FTSE 100 member by market capitalisation at 7.6% of the index (Figure 1), worth nearly £160bn (€222bn, $233.7bn) and 35% larger than the second-largest company, HSBC, once it completes the £47bn purchase of BG later in 2015.

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