Venture Global ( VG ) announced on Friday that its subsidiary Calcasieu Pass Funding had entered into a $1.75B senior secured term loan B credit facility. The company had also used a portion of the proceeds to fully retire preferred equity interests previously held by Stonepeak Bayou Holdings II LP. Goldman Sachs had acted as lead left arranger and bookrunner, while Barclays, Natixis, and Wells Fa...
Venture Global ( VG ) announced on Friday that its subsidiary Calcasieu Pass Funding had entered into a $1.75B senior secured term loan B credit facility. The company had also used a portion of the proceeds to fully retire preferred equity interests previously held by Stonepeak Bayou Holdings II LP. Goldman Sachs had acted as lead left arranger and bookrunner, while Barclays, Natixis, and Wells Fargo had served as lead right arrangers and joint bookrunners. Shares -2.12%. More on Venture Global Venture Global: Go Long And Stay Long Venture Global: Buy The Iran Spike Venture Global: A Good Hedge For LNG Disruption, But Long-Term Sell Venture Global settles Calcasieu Pass arbitration dispute with Italy's Edison Gas-related stocks rise as supplies tighten; QatarEnergy declares force majeure on LNG contracts
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Backiris The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed to maritime trade despite recent ceasefire agreements, with ship owners and operators showing no change in their cautious behavior since the peak of the conflict, according to Adrian Beciri, CEO of DUCAT Group. “The situation is extremely chaotic,” Beciri said in an interview with CNBC, noting there is no established protocol for transiting ...
Backiris The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed to maritime trade despite recent ceasefire agreements, with ship owners and operators showing no change in their cautious behavior since the peak of the conflict, according to Adrian Beciri, CEO of DUCAT Group. “The situation is extremely chaotic,” Beciri said in an interview with CNBC, noting there is no established protocol for transiting the straits or even a clear way to contact Iranian authorities about passage. Vessels attempting the transit are being forced to follow unconventional routes closer to the Iranian coastline, with ship owners being asked to pay sums that Beciri described as “quite frankly ridiculous.” While such costs might be absorbed by high-value tankers carrying cargo worth hundreds of millions, the logistics executive said transit has become “uneconomic” for smaller bulkers, fertilizers, and other trades. Beciri expressed deep skepticism that a ceasefire alone would restore confidence among maritime operators. “There needs to be an absolute clear statement between and an agreement between both parties here,” he said, adding that conflicting terms and multiple messages from various Iranian officials have left the industry confused. He warned that Iran may attempt to use the strait as a “tolling booth” and demand reparations for recent events. The CEO dismissed optimistic assessments of the situation, stating flatly: “If anyone thinks that [the straits are open], they’re mislead right now.” He noted that Western politicians have issued “very nice statements” but questioned how they would implement them given the convoluted circumstances on the ground. Freight rates have experienced significant volatility since the conflict began six weeks ago. Beciri described an “unusual situation” where bunker suppliers, particularly around Singapore, were charging premiums of $200 per ton over equivalent swap prices—a scenario he called “bizarre and kind of historical.” The disruption has triggered a b...
Meta (META) released artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Spark on Wednesday, triggering a stock rally this week. Wedbush Securities managing director and global head of technology research Dan Ives chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about why he still sees Meta as a value stock.
Meta (META) released artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Spark on Wednesday, triggering a stock rally this week. Wedbush Securities managing director and global head of technology research Dan Ives chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about why he still sees Meta as a value stock.
James_Gabbert/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Notice: Except where noted, all amounts are in millions of Canadian dollars. Infrastructure and railroad companies are part of what I like to cover in my articles. That makes Canadian Pacific ( CP:CA ) ( CP ) interesting for me to cover. However, while many ratings at the time of writing are positive—both Wall Street and SA analysts are positive—hist...
James_Gabbert/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Notice: Except where noted, all amounts are in millions of Canadian dollars. Infrastructure and railroad companies are part of what I like to cover in my articles. That makes Canadian Pacific ( CP:CA ) ( CP ) interesting for me to cover. However, while many ratings at the time of writing are positive—both Wall Street and SA analysts are positive—historical trends suggest that this company may be trickier than expected or forecasted by analysts. In this article, I'll establish basic coverage for Canadian Pacific. This involves looking at company operations, fundamentals, upsides, and risks. I invest in and cover a lot of infrastructure and railway companies—everything from the manufacturing of rolling stock and locomotives to signalling, to the rails themselves (the materials) and also the companies that use them, where they are publicly traded. While I can easily find the companies that manufacture the materials and products in Europe, investing in the actual infrastructure companies that run traffic on the rails is much harder here because most of these are not publicly traded. So it's nice to see companies like CP that are even technically investable. CP has a lot going for it. It's BBB+ rated, it has a well-covered dividend, and it has one of the most extensive and important rail networks in NA. The fundamental case for railway transport, where it is possible, is a very easy one to make. It is significantly cheaper and safer than trucking or flight transport, it's obviously environmentally superior in every way, and it has the advantage of mass capacity and significant reliability. A single railway can move as many goods and people as a 10-lane highway, and despite some accidents on the rails, railway travel and transport remain one of the safest modes of transportation around. In nations where railways are built out, meaning where high-speed rail is a thing, short-haul flights are, in turn, not a thing or are somet...
Reddit's rapid ad growth, rising advertiser base, and surging ROAS signal stronger upside potential against Alphabet's scale and steady AI-driven ad expansion.
Reddit's rapid ad growth, rising advertiser base, and surging ROAS signal stronger upside potential against Alphabet's scale and steady AI-driven ad expansion.
Richard Drury Investment portfolios of insurers selling annuities hold riskier debt now compared to the year prior to the financial crisis, according to a report by AM Best . AM Best is the largest credit rating agency specializing in the insurance industry. The report specifically looks into the reserves that insurers set aside to make payments on annuities. Now, funds held to back individual ann...
Richard Drury Investment portfolios of insurers selling annuities hold riskier debt now compared to the year prior to the financial crisis, according to a report by AM Best . AM Best is the largest credit rating agency specializing in the insurance industry. The report specifically looks into the reserves that insurers set aside to make payments on annuities. Now, funds held to back individual annuity policies account for more than 36% of the U.S. life/annuity insurance segment's overall reserves. The figure is 32% higher than before the financial crisis of 2008. A larger portion of these annuity reserves has shifted to companies that the credit agency rates nearly two notches lower, according to the report titled ' Credit Quality of Annuity Reserves Declined from 2007 to 2025 on the Credit Ratings Scale'. "This has been driven by newer entrants that have been assigned lower ratings, as well as established life/annuity companies that have been downgraded," said AM Best's senior director, Erik Miller. The factors contributing to a diminished balance sheet quality include a heightened reinsurance dependence; a lower quality of reinsurance; weaker financial flexibility; pressured internal capital; a deterioration in the quality of assets; and improper asset liability management. Life and annuity insurers are said to have acquired about $1 trillion in private credit investments, which promise higher returns. Several private equity firms, including Apollo Global Management ( APO ) and KKR ( KKR ), acquired insurers and moved private credit debt into their balance sheets, a report published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday noted. Additionally, annuity sales have doubled in the past decade, the report noted. On April 1, the Department of the Treasury said it will arrange meetings with domestic and international insurance regulators over the risks to the industry from the recent developments in private credit markets. Related ETFs: ( KIE ), ( IAK ), ( UYG ), ( SKF ), ( ...