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Oil crash wipes out US$1.3 trillion
Published Wed, Aug 5, 2015 · 09:50 PM
New York
IT'S the oil crash few saw coming, and few have been spared as it erased US$1.3 trillion, the equivalent of Mexico's annual GDP, in little more than a year.
Take billionaire Carl Icahn. When crude was at its peak in June 2014, the activist investor's stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp was worth almost US$2 billion. Today, oil has lost more than half its value, Chesapeake is the worst performer in the…
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