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To Avoid Liquidation Panic, HNA Assures Deutsche Shareholders It's A "Long-Term Investor"

To Avoid Liquidation Panic, HNA Assures Deutsche Shareholders It's A "Long-Term Investor"

The notoriously acquisitive Chinese conglomerate HNA - which recently had a sharp falling out with Beijing resulting in a margin call "shocksave" - is facing a serious cash crunch in 2018 as nearly a quarter of its $100 billion in debt – a large chunk of which was accumulated during a multi-year buying spree that saw it become a major shareholder in Deutsche Bank, Hilton Worldwide and a large portfolio of international holdings - comes due.

The Biggest Factors In Future Oil Production

The Biggest Factors In Future Oil Production

Authored by Ron Patterson via OilPrice.com,

This assessment is based on the data in the 2017 BP Statistical Review of World Energy available here. As such it uses that review’s definition of oil which is crude and condensate and natural gas liquids, uncompensated for their different energy contents or values of refined product components.

Figure 1: World Oil Production 1990 – 2017

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Now That Xmas Is Over - Mapping The US States With The Most People In Debt

Now That Xmas Is Over - Mapping The US States With The Most People In Debt

With Americans left with only one option - indentured servitude - to maintain any semblance of normal quality of life - especially at Christmas - we thought it worthwhile considering which US States have the most people in debt.

Using data from anonymous consumer-level records from a major credit bureau, the Urban Institute was able to release figures on debt levels across America.

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