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His firm closed “a billion-dollar acquisition in a matter of six weeks,” he said.  Teine added Repsol’s Chauvin assets in 2022, bringing low-decline enhanced oil production plus midstream and marketing infrastructure, according to the Insights Institute.   “Energy is a cyclical business, but the real advantage comes from being able to invest through the cycle,” said Bill Rogers, managing director, head of sustainable energies, real assets at CPP Investments.  Teine is now the largest producer in Saskatchewan’s Viking play, which the fund calls one of the lowest-cost oil basins in North America, while its enhanced oil assets add steady cash flow.   Its next leg of…

Coval has raised $28 million in Series A financing to expand its platform for testing, monitoring and evaluating autonomous voice agents, positioning the company to capitalize on growing enterprise adoption of voice AI technologies. The round was led by Norwest and included participation from Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures and Y Combinator. The investment brings total funding since the company’s 2024 launch to $31 million. Based in San Francisco, Coval develops infrastructure designed to help enterprises deploy voice and chat AI systems with greater reliability, observability and compliance oversight. As organizations increasingly adopt autonomous voice agents for customer service, sales, healthcare…

We’ve been consistent: One shouldn’t bet against the US economy. Primarily, that means the consumer—who accounts for nearly two-thirds of US GDP. The consumer has held up well since the start of the year even as energy costs surged, buffered by a long list of shock absorbers: Tax refunds, plentiful savings, and manageable debt loads. Now, as energy costs decline, it’s tempting to think consumer spending can accelerate. But that might be too optimistic a take. Despite headline resilience, the energy shock, coupled with persistent non-energy prices, have weakened the US consumer and their capacity to absorb further price pressures.…

PIKZ has announced the launch of $PIKZ, the native utility token that will power its sports intelligence ecosystem. The launch marks a significant landmark for the platform, which combines sports analytics, artificial intelligence, and blockchain-based transparency into a single, open system.The token is currently available through a three-day fair launch presale hosted on PinkSale Finance. The presale offers early access to participants ahead of the token’s public trading debut, scheduled to occur shortly after the presale concludes.The introduction of $PIKZ comes at a time when blockchain projects are increasingly evaluated based on real-world functionality, user engagement, and sustainable incentive models…

Taylor Swift wore a custom Monse dress for a surprise performance at Tight Ends and Friends in Nashville. gkittle/Instagram Tight Ends and Friends and Fiancées. Taylor Swift supported fiancé Travis Kelce at his Tight End University event Tuesday night, performing at the Nashville event wearing an asymmetrical black strapless gown with added silver embellishments. The custom Monse creation featured a hemline that trailed from her hip to her opposite ankle and an array of paillettes, sequins and crystals. She doubled up on silver with Aquazzura metallic heels and added a chunky choker necklace. She performed “Love Story” with Lainey Wilson,…

Satisfying demand for dispatchable baseload power generation is a priority for governments. Even better if delivered via low carbon solutions. Hard-to-abate industries are also focusing on how to decarbonise their processes. These needs are furthering developments in energy infrastructure, in particular carbon capture and storage and hydrogen production.In this article we consider the opportunities and challenges facing the development of these sectors, and the key investment drivers for attracting private capital to the space.Read the full PDF report by clicking the image below.   Source link

Mumbai, June 24: Shares of Pine Labs (NSE: PINELABS) opened Wednesday’s session nearly flat at ₹150.20 against a previous close of ₹150.05, but what followed was a textbook intraday recovery that saw the stock climb steadily and decisively through the day. After a brief dip to a session low of ₹149.99 in the opening minutes, buyers stepped in with conviction, driving the counter higher in a near-continuous ascent through the morning. By 10 am, Pine Labs was already trading comfortably above ₹155, and the stock continued to grind upward through the afternoon, touching a session high of ₹162.49 before consolidating…

The real cowboys of crypto: Wyoming ropes a $1 stablecoin Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Source link

Clive Parry wrote in the comments on this blog yesterday that: We need to reverse the line argument “We can only have public services if we have a strong economy” to become “we can only have a strong economy if we have functioning public services”. I agree. I argued as such in my 2011 book, The Courageous State. In that I explained the importance of the mixed economy, saying that there is a necessary balance between the state and private sectors, each having a very real role to play in the economy. To explain this I suggested that the economy…

Silver Range Resources CEO Mike Power joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss encouraging exploration results from the company’s Alamo Property in La Paz County, Arizona, where recent geochemical and geophysical work has identified multiple high-priority gold and copper targets.Power said the latest program delivered soil geochemical results up to 1.34 g/t gold, rock samples grading up to 21.8 g/t gold and 6.99% copper, and an extensive network of VLF-EM conductors that in several areas coincide with elevated gold and copper values as well as mineralized bedrock float.The work was completed in December 2025 and April 2026 and included both…