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Glencore shares halt slide, broker recommends going private

Shares of Glencore (GLEN.L) halted their slide on Tuesday after losing around a third of their value on Monday, with several brokers saying worries over the commodities and mining company’s debt pile were overdone. Analysts at Citi said Glencore should even consider going private via a management buyout if the market rout continued. “In the event the equity market continues to express its unwillingness to value the business fairly, the

Glencore shares halt slide, broker recommends going private

Shares of Glencore (GLEN.L) halted their slide on Tuesday after losing around a third of their value on Monday, with several brokers saying worries over the commodities and mining company’s debt pile were overdone. Analysts at Citi said Glencore should even consider going private via a management buyout if the market rout continued. “In the event the equity market continues to express its unwillingness to value the business fairly, the

Lid on Oil Prices Refuses to Budge

The long-awaited decline in U.S. oil output has begun, data show, but many investors and analysts are still waiting for prices to stage a sustained recovery. The rapid growth in America’s production over the past several years was a major driver behind the plunge in the benchmark U.S. oil price, which is down 53% from a year ago. “We now know that the U.S. [production] is in decline,” said Eric