Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is off today. We begin with the mega oil deal. Shell has agreed to buy bg group for around 47 billion pounds around 70 billion in cash and stocks. That makes it the biggest deal in the oil and gas industry for at least a decade. Caroline hyde joins us at the touchscreen. Caroline a cool 47 billion pounds. A cool 50 premium on bgs share price. This is record data in terms of size of move, but if you go back, it is only since july 2014 when we last saw this price on bg group. That was the amount that the oil prices plummeted dragging down the price of oil stocks. Suddenly, everything looks a little bit fairer valued. That is what has capitalized this deal to spark the Biggest Energy deal in a decade. Suddenly, assets look well priced. Creating the secondBiggest Energy company in the world this would be the biggest player in the ftse 100. It will have sheer size and scale. Interestingly, shell saying, we will build a company with three pillars. They are goi
Anna flights over france are cut at a plant air Traffic Controller strike that could affect aircraft space for r 48 hours. Mark welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Investors pushing to a fresh sevenyear high today and trading from mainland investors are growing to a record. The surging chinese tech scares tech shares is making the day of the. Com bubble look mild. We will bring you the latest in just a couple of minutes. First up, oil here in europe today and what could be the biggest deal in more than a decade or the Energy Sector. Shell makes a 46 billion pound approach for gas producer bg group. Caroline, you have more on this possible deal. Hi caroline as you said, this could be the industrys biggest deal for a decade. This could create the secondbiggest Energy Producer in the world. It would be behind just exxon leaping over chevron in terms of size. And in fact, it could be the biggest gas producer in the entire world. These are the statistics that we are looking at, and as y
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