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Hello share Mates. Those of us who have big holdings, or even small ones, in BG (BG.) have been on pins for most of a year now. That’s since Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) announced it was to merge with the big oil and natural gas giant. The $70billion offer was in cash and shares and made BG shares worth about £13.
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Phil
The deal is in the hands of the Australian regulators and notice of a delay for further investigations. The Aussies have a point, it will cause a higher than deemed norm of market concentration. It will be interesting to see if the Australians demand any concessions/disposals
From there it moves to China, and I think that is the last of them. So its over to the Aussies god bless em