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#PreMarket Primer: Monday, June 16: Rebels Seize Another Iraqi City
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 7:22am | 1159Sunni insurgents tightened their grip on northern Iraq over the weekend when they overtook Tal Afar, stirring worries that the nation may fall into a civil war. Rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq seized the mostly ethnic Turkmen city on Sunday as they pressed closer to the capital. The...
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BP (BP) Pays Devon Energy (DVN) $7 Billion For Assets
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 9:33am | 132BP p.l.c. (NYSE: BP) announced it was paying $7 billion for assets in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan from Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN). The deal gives the British oil giant BP interests in 10 Brazilian exploration blocks, 240 leases in the Gulf of Mexico deep water, and another 5...