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Et Tu, Mexico?


A consultant questions whether our trade partner's role in organizing cutbacks in world oil production is consistent with NAFTA obligations.


Byline: 
Glenn R. Schleede
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Tracking Stock for Utilities: Highway to Higher Valuations?


Telecoms may offer IOUs a model for multiplying market caps by dividing their shareholdings.

April 1, 2000


Byline: 
Ajay Gupta is an attorney and economist and currently a senior associate in the San Francisco office of Analysis Group/Economics, a consulting firm. Previously, he practiced corporate law in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he specialized in securities offerings, energy, and petrochemical project finance transactions and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He can be reached at agupta@ag-inc.com.
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As energy suppliers gather more detail about customers, opportunities for segmenting and selling them will increase during the next five years.

As technology such as AMR and improved information-gathering systems enhance customer data, energy service providers will be well-positioned to segment load profiles into valuable blocks for sale. According to PHB Hagler Bailly's "Energy Industry Outlook 2000," this bottom-line-enhancing possibility will contribute to the changing customer-energy supplier relationship during the next five years.

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