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Sep. 11th, 2007 10:28 amHere’s an odd bit of international news. Before News Corp. offered to pay $60 per share for The Wall Street Journal, Gazprom — the massive state-owned energy company — contacted Dow Jones with a rival $5 billion-plus offer.
On Friday, Dow Jones completed a regulatory filing with the SEC on Friday in which it revealed an “approach from an international oil and gas company.” Gazprom, the Times of London later confirmed, was that company.
For entertainment purposes alone, we wish this deal would have gone down. If protectionists in Washington had a problem with Dubai owning ports, this would have completely flipped them out. Imagine the most influential business publication in the U.S. being run by a massive Russian energy company.
“In some ways,” comments Christopher Hancock on the deal, “Gazprom is like a sovereign wealth fund. It’s effectively controlled by the state, it has cash to spend and it’s already diversified in a multitude of industries.
Gazprom’s reach is already astounding in Russia. Aside from controlling the biggest gas reserves in the world and an equally massive oil business, it owns Russia’s only nationwide independent television station, several newspapers and radio stations and Russia’s third largest bank.
“If anything,” says Chris, “this offer symbolically illustrates Gazprom’s perch as the arm of the Kremlin. If you control energy, the media and banking… you’re holding a pretty heavy hand.”
(http://www.agorafinancial.com/5min/2007/09/)
On Friday, Dow Jones completed a regulatory filing with the SEC on Friday in which it revealed an “approach from an international oil and gas company.” Gazprom, the Times of London later confirmed, was that company.
For entertainment purposes alone, we wish this deal would have gone down. If protectionists in Washington had a problem with Dubai owning ports, this would have completely flipped them out. Imagine the most influential business publication in the U.S. being run by a massive Russian energy company.
“In some ways,” comments Christopher Hancock on the deal, “Gazprom is like a sovereign wealth fund. It’s effectively controlled by the state, it has cash to spend and it’s already diversified in a multitude of industries.
Gazprom’s reach is already astounding in Russia. Aside from controlling the biggest gas reserves in the world and an equally massive oil business, it owns Russia’s only nationwide independent television station, several newspapers and radio stations and Russia’s third largest bank.
“If anything,” says Chris, “this offer symbolically illustrates Gazprom’s perch as the arm of the Kremlin. If you control energy, the media and banking… you’re holding a pretty heavy hand.”
(http://www.agorafinancial.com/5min/2007/09/)
