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The 'two disaster' rule on oil pricing
Filed under: Bad News, Consumer Experience, India, China, Middle East, Venezuela, Politics, OilOil spiked up to $107 on news that an Iraq pipeline had been blown up, potentially disrupting supply....
View ArticleVenezuela starts collecting new windfall profits tax on oil companies
Filed under: Venezuela, Commodities, OilVenezuela has started collecting its new foreign oil companies windfall profits tax, as part of President Hugo Chavez' plan to gain a larger share of oil company...
View ArticleWhat will you do when gasoline hits $6.67 a gallon?
Filed under: Forecasts, Bad News, Consumer Experience, India, China, Middle East, Venezuela, Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Mexico, Economic Data, OilAP reports that Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) predicts...
View ArticleIMF's Lipsky says repeat of 1970s stagflation unlikely
Filed under: International Markets, Forecasts, China, Middle East, Venezuela, Commodities, Oil, AgricultureGrowth is slowing in all regions of the world, and inflation is rising, but the International...
View ArticleHigh oil prices may not dent demand
Filed under: International Markets, Analyst Reports, China, Middle East, Venezuela, Economic Data, OilIt is reasonable to believe that as the cost of crude rises, demand will fall. It is in the...
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Talk of $200 oil picks up steam
Filed under: Venezuela, Economic Data, Oil, RecessionNow and then, a media outlet or analyst will talk about $200 crude. Most analysis shows oil peaking at $160 or so and dropping back over the next...
View ArticleFirstTrust/Aberdeen Emerging (FEO): Global growth and income
Filed under: International Markets, India, China, Brazil, Russia, Venezuela, Newsletters, Mutual Funds, Eastern Europe, Stocks to Buy"Closed-end funds are a terrific way to gain diversified exposure to...
View ArticleRussia's war plan and the price of oil
Filed under: Bad News, Russia, Venezuela, Politics, OilEconomists think they have most of the data they need to forecast the price of oil: The dollar is rising; consumption in the US is falling;...
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Could Venezuela become Zimbabwe? Ask Cemex
Filed under: International Markets, Other Issues, Bad News, Rants and Raves, Venezuela, Scandals, Politics, Headline News, CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. (CX)In the margins of Barron's this week there was a...
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Another problem with oil: Russia gives Venezuela cash
Filed under: Russia, Venezuela, Politics, OilU.S. consumers have another reason to worry about gas prices. Two of the largest oil-producing nations in the world are forming a military alliance, and...
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A quiet war over oil prices
Filed under: China, Russia, Venezuela, OilWill crude go up or down before the end of the year? Since it has dropped from $147 in the summer to just above $40 recently and demand is falling, betting on...
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Events may conspire to raise oil prices
Filed under: China, Russia, Middle East, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, OilWhat is already known is that OPEC will almost certainly cut production at its December meeting. It has several members with...
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Saving $1 billion a day on gasoline
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Middle East, Venezuela, OilOPEC may end up offering the U.S. a larger bailout that the federal government. Data on what Americans spend on gas show that because of the...
View ArticleWill oil prices rise? Watch Nigeria
Filed under: Forecasts, Russia, Venezuela, OilOil moved above $46 yesterday. According to The New York Times, "One year after crude oil eclipsed $100 a barrel for the first time, the new year's trading...
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Hugo Chavez wants those bad capitalists to bail him out of a jam
Filed under: International Markets, Rants and Raves, Exxon Mobil (XOM), Venezuela, Market Matters, Scandals, Oil, CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. (CX)What goes around comes around... and Hugo Chavez, the...
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Has the oil price slide ended?
Filed under: Competitive Strategy, Middle East, Venezuela, OilVery often you can get a sense of the way a market is reacting by what is not happening. OPEC is meeting next Sunday to review their...
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Coke Zero, dangerous? Venezuela says yes
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Coca-Cola (KO), VenezuelaIt's bad enough that Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) killed its C2 brand a few years ago -- I still have one memorial (empty) can I keep in my china...
View ArticleSilver Standard (SSRI) sets the standard in silver mining
Filed under: International Markets, Venezuela, Newsletters, Mexico, Canada, Commodities, Stocks to Buy"Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ: SSRI) has set a new standard for silver resources; simply put,...
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Hugo Chavez Racing Toward Economic Peril
Filed under: Rants and Raves, Exxon Mobil (XOM), Venezuela, Avon Products (AVP), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Procter and Gamble (PG), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. (CX), CurrencyIt is mind...
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Serious Money: Chavez & Gaddafi, Real Blues Brothers
Filed under: International Markets, Rants and Raves, Venezuela, Scandals, Politics, Serious Money, Oil, Stock Picks, Telefonica SA (TEF)Venezuela is broken and Libya is on fire. The Chavez government...
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