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Chinese Demand for Oil Keeps Growing

Posted: April 21, 2010 at 1:03 pm

For the seventh consecutive month, Chinese demand for crude oil has increased by double digits over demand just one year ago. Demand in March grew by 12.8% year-over-year. The ...
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Crude Jumps Above $85 As Reaction To American Jobs Figure

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 5:26 am

The BBC reports that crude traded over $85 on the first day after the Easter weekend reaching $85.31 a barrel for light crude. The news service identified the US jobs ...
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Media Digest (3/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 2:51 am

Reuters:   A suicide bomber killed 37 in Moscow. Reuters:   China sentenced Rio Tinto (RTP) executives in prison for ten years. Reuters:   A JPMorgan $1.4 billion tax write-off faces FDIC scrutiny. Reuters:   ...
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Twelve Huge M&A Deals For 2010: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm

M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/4/2009)

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 3:31 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was up .4% to 10,023. Honda (NYSE:HMC) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) rose but Toyota (NYSE:TM) dropped. The Hang Seng fell .3% to 22,495. Sinopec ...
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The Vicious Competition For Peak Oil

Posted: November 30, 2009 at 4:56 am

There has been a heated argument for the last several years about when the world will start to run out of oil. The rate of oil production, after more than ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (10/23/2009)

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 3:26 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,283. The Hang Seng was up 1.4% to 22,516. China Life (NYSE:LFC) and Sinpoc (NYSE:SNP) rose. The Shanghai Composite was ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (10/16/2009)

Posted: October 16, 2009 at 3:28 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,258. The Hang Seng fell .1% to 21,988. Petro China (NYSE:PTR) was up but Sinopec (NYSE:SNP) fell. The Shanghai Composite ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 10/14/2009

Posted: October 14, 2009 at 3:26 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei dropped .3% to 10,051. The Hang Seng moved up 1.7% to 21,839. PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) and Sinopec (NYSE:SNP) moved up on oil prices. The ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 10/12/2009

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 3:22 am

Markets in Asia were slightly down with Japan closed for a holiday. The Hang Seng was off .5% to 21,404. Sinopec (NYSE:SNP) was up slightly. The Shanghai Composite fell .6% ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (10/2/2009)

Posted: October 2, 2009 at 3:25 am

Markets in Asia were mostly lower. The Nikkei fell 2.5% to 9,732. The Hang Seng dropped 2.6% to 20,415.  HSBC (HBC) fell sharply. PetroChina (PTR) and Sinopec (SNP) also fell. ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open

Posted: September 30, 2009 at 3:32 am

Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed. The Nikkei was up .3% to 10,133. The Hang Seng was down .6% to 20,841. Sinopec (SNP) fell. The Shanghai Composite was up .9% ...
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Marathon’s Angola Stake Not Going to China After All (MRO, CEO, SNP, TOT, XOM)

Posted: September 24, 2009 at 9:29 am

Angola's state-owned oil company, Sonangol, has exercised its right of first refusal to purchase a 20% stake in block 32 offshore Angola from Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE:MRO). In July, Marathon ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 9/22/2009

Posted: September 22, 2009 at 3:27 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Hang Seng rose .3% to 21,546. Sinopec (SNP) rose. The Shanghai Composite was down 2.3% to 2,898. At the open in Europe, the FTSE ...
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Lockerbie And Crude Ethics

Posted: August 31, 2009 at 4:50 am

The Times of London claims that people within the British government turned over convicted Lockerbie bombing participant Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi to Libya as part of an attempt to secure ...
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