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  • Tuesday, January 24, 3:12 PM Petrobas (PBR +3.6%) dismisses the earlier chatter about the oil major making a play for Transocean (RIG +1.6%). Shares of RIG have settled back after being 5.6% higher after the buzz picked up.
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  • Too many old rigs to be worth buying.
    24 Jan, 03:15 PM Reply Like
  • They have a lot of deep water rigs....which petrobras needs...
    24 Jan, 03:34 PM Reply Like
  • Take a look at PBR strategic plan. The rig count and type actually does look a lot like RIG. Volume is nearly 16 million already. About 50,000 call option contracts have traded for February calls. A lot of money going into RIG today.
    24 Jan, 03:57 PM Reply Like
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