E.ON benefits from Gazprom deal

13/08/12 19:14 CET

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German energy giant E.ON has posted greatly improved results for the first half of 2012 on higher sales, reduced losses from Germany’s phase out of nuclear energy, and a significant gas price settlement with Russia’s Gazprom.

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