Last Updated: 2:09am GMT 07/03/2007
A round-up of headlines from across the financial sectors, provided by Bloomberg News
LEGAL
• BP has received grand jury subpoenas in a federal probe relating to the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 people.
ENERGY
• International Power, which owns power plants in 17 countries, said fourth–quarter net income rose 20pc as electricity prices rose. The shares had their biggest one-day gain in more than three years.
• UK natural gas prices for delivery in June fell as high inventory levels reduced demand for fuel to store for use next winter.
• New nuclear power plants have a role in Britain’s future energy mix, with a cleaner use of fossil fuels, renewable power and closer controls on electricity consumption, the chief executive of Scottish & Southern Energy said.
• BP relied on Russian unit TNK-BP to boost proven reserves as crude oil and natural gas reserves fell in most locations. Chief executive Lord Browne’s annual bonus was cut almost in half last year after criticism of BP’s safety, environmental and operational record.
• Royal Dutch Shell said a pipeline spill in the Niger River had cut production by 187,000 barrels a day. metals and mining
• Xstrata said full-year profit rose 14pc to a record after metal prices surged.
• Merafe Resources, a producer of ferrochrome in South Africa in a venture with Xstrata, posted a 20-fold increase in second-half profit as rising metal prices saw it boost production.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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