Article by MIKE BIRD published 8 April 2015 by UKBusinessInsider.com
BG Group shares are going through the roof after a colossal merger with Shell
Shares in BG Group are rocketing upwards after the company agreed to a merger with oil giant Shell. The tie-up will create a company worth £224 billion.
As of 10:20 a.m. London time (5:20 a.m. ET) London-listed BG Group’s shares are up 36.95%, climbing to levels last seen in the summer, before falling oil prices took their toll.
Here’s how it looks:
The share price climbed about 6% yesterday too, and the company’s shares surged from about 852 pence just before Easter to nearly 1,250 pence now.
The deal values BG Group at £47 billion ($70.05 billion), the equivalent of about 1,367 pence per share.
It’s all about low oil prices, which are transforming the sector — this deal would have looked hilariously bad for BG Group just 12 or 18 months ago. Here’s Marc Kimsey, senior trader at Accendo Markets in a note emailed out Wednesday morning:
The deal between Royal Dutch Shell and BG Group will prompt sector consolidation. The decline in oil price over the past year has battered some stocks which are clearly now looking attractive. In the last year BG shares fell 30%, shares in Tullow Oil have fallen 65%, Premier Oil down 55%, and Petrofac down 20%. By comparison sector behemoths BP and Royal Dutch Shell have only shed 10% over the same period leaving them in the position of predator rather than prey.
Despite the fact that this merger has been discussed as a potential move for decades, investors aren’t taking the news as such a positive thing for Shell — London-listed B shares are down by 5.07%.
Here’s UBS on what the merger means for Shell:
We had identified this period of low oil prices as potentially one of those periods when the Majors try to be opportunistic. There has been a view they would need to go big or not at all. We would see this as a deal proposed by Shell out of necessity not strength however. We believe there is a risk that Shell’s portfolio is being marginalised in the current environment.
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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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