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Hess shareholders on Tuesday approved the New York-headquartered oil company’s pending acquisition by Chevron for $53 billion, even as the timeline for when the deal may close has become increasingly murky with the companies locked in a dispute with Exxon Mobil . A majority of outstanding Hess shares voted in favor of the merger agreement, though the ...
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Silver is up 29.6%, gold is up 15.1%, and the Bloomberg Industrial Metals Index (including copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead) is up 17.7%. All three have bested the S&P 500 (+11.8%), Russell 2000 (+2.6%), the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index (-1.4%), US REITs (-2.7%), and treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) (-0.02%) returns year to date ...