Chesapeake names Anadarko executive as new CEO
Chesapeake Energy has named Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler as its new CEO.
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Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion that would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. market.
Chesapeake Energy has named Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler as its new CEO.
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Transocean Ltd. shareholders have voted out the oil drilling company's chairman and backed one of the nominees put forth by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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The Mexican government says it has cut its economic growth forecast for 2013 from 3.5 percent to 3.1 after exports stagnated and first-quarter GDP figures came in weak.