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Bauer Business Focus

Craig Pirrong On The Halliburton/Baker Hughes Merger

This week, Halliburton announced plans to purchase rival oil-services company Baker Hughes in a deal worth $34.6 billion — the largest merger ever involving two Houston-based companies. Craig Pirrong is professor of finance and director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. He joins Andrew Schneider on the Bauer Business Focus.

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Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider

Politics and Government Reporter

Andrew Schneider is the senior reporter for politics and government at Houston Public Media, NPR's affiliate station in Houston, Texas. In this capacity, he heads the station's coverage of national, state, and local elections. He also reports on major policy issues before the Texas Legislature and county and city governments...

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