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China Keeps Interest Rate Steady, Pushes Up Shares (BIDU, CHL, SNP, GOOG)

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 9:43 am

Over the weekend the Chinese government revealed that the country's inflation rate had hit 5.1%, considerably higher than expectations of around 4.7%. An interest rate hike was expected to follow, ...
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Valero Leads Off for Refiners on Profits and Revenue (VLO, TSO, MRO, FTO, WNR, SNP, PTR)

Posted: October 26, 2010 at 10:18 am

Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO) is the first of the oil refiners to report earnings this quarter, and this morning's release is a lot better than a year ago, when diluted ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/15/2010)

Posted: October 15, 2010 at 8:16 am

Updated throughout the day. Sinochem (NYSE: SNP) has given up on its bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) (Reuters) GM should have mid-November IPO (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has renewed it ...
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Media Digest (10/11/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 4:03 am

Reuters: CNOOC offered $1.1 billion for a part of Chesapeake Energy, a deal the US may not approve. Reuters:   Pressure to investigate mortgage practices has begun to build for banks. ...
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Media Digest 10/4/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 4:05 am

Reuters:   The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters:   Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: ...
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Media Digest (10/1/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 1, 2010 at 4:06 am

Reuters:   Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) named the former CEO of SAP (NYSE: SAP) as CEO and a former president of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) as chairman. Reuters:   A trade  by Waddell & ...
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China & Oil: Talking Down The Price (SNP, BHP, POT, CEO, BP)

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 1:00 pm

What is the easiest way to drive down a price without stopping orders?  Telling suppliers that you may have to cut orders in the months ahead.  There are many things ...
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Media Digest 8/23/2010

Posted: August 23, 2010 at 4:09 am

Reuters:   Kenneth Feinberg took over the BP plc $20 billion escrow account. Reuters:   Americans are confused about healthcare reform according to a new poll Reuters:   Sinochem approached Potash (NYSE: POT) ...
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China Kicks Off Hunt for Shale Gas

Posted: July 1, 2010 at 2:13 pm

Sinopec, officially China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (NYSE:SNP), has initiated a program to evaluate shale gas deposits in the southern part of the country. Estimates of the size of the ...
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China Gains Another Foothold in Brazil (STO, PBR, SNP, CEO, BP)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 12:16 pm

Norway's Statoil ASA (NYSE: STO) has agreed to sell a 40% stake in its deepwater Peregrino field offshore Brazil to China's Sinochem Group for $3.07 billion. Statoil retains its 60% ...
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Another Chinese Investment in Canada’s Oil Sands (PWE, PTR, ENB, CEO, SNP, TOT, COP, KMP)

Posted: May 15, 2010 at 8:45 am

Penn West Energy Trust (NYSE:PWE) is the latest beneficiary of Chinese interest in the Canadian oil sands. China Investment Corp., a state-owned sovereign wealth fund, has agreed to invest about ...
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China’s Oil Companies Could Help Slow Credit Demands (SNP, COP, CEO, PTR, BP)

Posted: April 28, 2010 at 2:42 pm

Like oil refiners everywhere, China Petroleum and Chemical Co. (NYSE:SNP), better known as Sinopec, had a tough year in 2009. The company's revenues were down nearly 7%, but EPS was ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors

Posted: April 28, 2010 at 9:06 am

Updated throughout the day. Sinopec (NYSE: SNP) will sell $2.93 billion in bonds (WSJ) Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has set a goal of 100 million customers worldwide (Globe & Mail) Douglas ...
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Canadian Oil Sands: The Race to Secure Energy’s Future

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 2:08 pm

The oil sands deposit in western Canada has been called many things, but Canadian researcher and writer Alastair Sweeney may be the first to call them a "calming, stabilizing force ...
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Oil’s Next Big Surge

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 5:55 am

Crude oil prices are back above $85 and seem ready to breach $90. The leg from $69 to $85 which began in February had hit a plateau, but optimism about ...
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