BP plc (BP) , the British energy major, has signed a Production Sharing Agreement ("PSA") with Trinidad and Tobago in the shallow water block NCMA 2. BP's subsidiary won an offshore bidding round hosted by Trinidad and Tobago last year. The agreement allows for the exploration and production of natural gas in the shallow water block. The PSA is aimed at increasing the country's natural gas output to boost the supply of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. Trinidad and Tobago's natural gas supply has ...

The stock prices for H&R Block and Intuit fell after a Tuesday report saying the Trump transition team is considering creating a free tax-filing app.Intuit, which makes the TurboTax tax-filing software, was down 5%, putting it on pace for its worst day since Aug. 23, when the company's stock price fell nearly 7%. H&R Block was down 8% and on pace for its worst day since 2020.President-elect Donald Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" has held "highly preliminary" discussions about creating the free ...

Donald Trump's election has shaken up financial markets in a way that few elections have. Stocks soared broadly on his victory with financials and energy stocks leading the way, while some sectors fell, including real estate, which is sensitive to interest rates, and consumer staples, which could get hit by tariffs.Bond yields initially jumped, a sign that bond investors anticipated interest rates would stay elevated due to tax cuts and other economic stimulus, as well as the impact of tariffs and larger de ...

One company that likely won't be happy to exit this week is Block (SQ -2.80%). Its stock was on the rise across the past few trading days thanks to a set of fresh -- and bullish -- evaluations of the fintech by analysts tracking its fortunes. As a consequence its share price had risen nearly 12% week to date as of Thursday night, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Post-earnings updates Somewhat counterintuitively, that cluster of positive new evaluations for Block came on the heel ...

BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Block & Leviton announces that a securities fraud lawsuit has been filed against Lilium N.V. (NASDAQ: LILM, LILMW; OTC: LILMF) and certain of its executives. Investors who have lost money in their Lilium N.V. investment should contact the firm to learn more about how they might recover those losses. For more details, visit https://blockleviton.com/cases/lilmf. What is this all about? Lilium N.V. and certain executives have been sued for securities fraud, alleging th ...

H&R Block will pay $7 million and change some of its practices under a proposed settlement that would resolve a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit alleging that the company made deceptive claims about "free" tax filing. The FTC filed an administrative lawsuit against H&R Block in February, charging that the company advertised its online tax filing products as "free" even though many consumers could not file for free, the regulator said in a Tuesday (Nov. 12) press release. The lawsuit also charged that ...

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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021.During the crypto-crazed summer of 2021, when memecoins like dogecoin and Shiba Inu were rocketing alongside bitcoin and ethereum, Square founder Jack Dorsey announced that his payments company was starting a new business unit, with the goal of "making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralized financial services.""Our primary focus is #Bitcoin," Dorsey ...