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Saudi Stocks Fall as Aramco Seeks $1.71 Trillion IPO Valuation

(Bloomberg) — Saudi stocks fell, reversing earlier gains, as investors digested the kingdom’s plan to sell a 1.5% stake in the state oil company.The Tadawul All Share Index dropped 0.4% as of 11:58 a.m. in Riyadh, after climbing as much as 0.4%. Telecommunications stocks led declines, while Al Rajhi Bank and Alinma Bank added the most to gains.Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company, said in an updated prospectus on Sunday that it will offer shares in a range of 30 Saudi riyals to 32 Saudi riyals, for a valuation of as much as $1.71 trillion. Investors may now be …read more […]

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Saudi Aramco Seeks Up to $1.71 Trillion in IPO Valuation

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia put a preliminary valuation on its state-owned oil giant Aramco of between $1.6 trillion and $1.71 trillion, short of the $2 trillion target set by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2016.Aramco is seeking as much as $25.6 billion by selling a 1.5% stake. The company would raise $24 billion if the deal prices at the lower end — just shy of the $25 billion raised by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. — currently the world’s largest IPO. With one third of the deal reserved for Saudi retail investors, Aramco will rely heavily on the local market.Price …read more […]

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Fuel for Rockets and Zeppelins Points Toward Green Heat Solution

(Bloomberg) — It’s the most nettlesome problem in the quest to ditch fossil fuels: how can you get thousand-degree heat used in factory furnaces without pumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?Heat-intensive processes like steelmaking and oil refineries are the starting point for production of everything from cars to life-saving medicines. But fueling their ultra-high temperatures requires burning coal, oil and natural gas. That makes industry responsible for about 20% of the carbon dioxide produced by humans and heating processes, and a bigger emitter than all cars and aircraft combined.Under mounting pressure from protesters and …read more […]