"We are going to invest in those product lines where we're a little bit weak, and we'll look at selective acquisitions to round them out," To bad we don't have an extra 3.5 billion to put into to them. The way the market is now we could have picked up several small companies with the money he handed to Baker for the fun of it.
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Never mind spending any more money on business Good idea to spend some on the work force after the ppr freeze and all the rest if you recognize the onshore & offshore staff reward them with a pay rise its not need its greed .Also I am not speaking about managers either as they get to much not only on salary but bonus
When approached by Halliburton regarding the topic of a potential acquisition, several of the targeted companies entertained the discussions and replied with, " sounds nice, but we suggest that you just pay us half a billion dollars now , and we can discontinue the discussions and save us all a lot of grief in the long run." No word yet on what the HAL decision may be.