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The following is an excerpt from Erin Carlyle | March 7, 2013 | Forbes.com |
Want to be a billionaire? You may want to consider which of the many paths to wealth–ballet flats? real estate in China? the next Facebook?–could be most likely to land you a spot on the Forbes ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jeremy Olshan | February 20, 2013 | Smartmoney.com |
Hot or iced, drip, French press, espresso, Chemex or Keurig, each of us downs about 23 gallons of joe a year on average. It’s in our blood. It’s also on our streets, where Starbucks SBUX +0.36% ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from rt.com | February 11, 2013 |
Over the last decade Russia’s Central Bank acquired 570 metric tonnes of gold. The amount is almost triple the weight of the American Statue of Liberty and makes Russia the world’s biggest buyer of gold.
The amount is a qurter ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Paul Shread | February 7, 2013 | Time.com |
Perhaps the only thing predictable about the business world is that it’s unpredictable, so here are some tips from business expert and author Donna Every for thriving in uncertain times.
When your business gets hit by uncertainty, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Steve Hargreaves | January 17, 2013 | Time.com |
Two hundred miles southeast of Newfoundland, not far from where the Titanic sank, ExxonMobil is spending $14 billion to drill one of the biggest oil fields in the North Atlantic.
Seeing Exxon develop oil fields for Canada ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Matthew Yglesias | January 16, 2013 | Slate.com |
The German government announced today that it wants to repatriate a large share of the gold reserves it maintains at the New York Fed and all of the gold reserves it keeps in France. This seems ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jeff Macke | December 19, 2012 | Yahoo.com |
At the beginning of 2012 gold bulls had a straight forward thesis: Central banks around the world will continue to debase their currencies. The virtually unfettered money printing with no set ending would, the thinking went, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Luisa Kroll | December 13, 2012 | Forbes.com |
Danish fashion executive Anders Holch Povlsen is the latest billionaire to join Forbes’ worldwide ranks. At age 40, he is also one of the youngest in the world.
Holch Povlsen of Denmark took over his family’s fashion ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from The Associated Press | November 12, 2012 | Foxnews.com |
The United States will become the world's largest oil producer by around 2020, temporarily overtaking Saudi Arabia, as new exploration technologies help find more resources, the International Energy Agency forecast on Monday.
In its World Energy ... Read More
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By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011-2012
November 6, 2012
Recent oil prices have sunk back to $85 a barrel. Of course, the oil stocks got hit, but some have gotten hit worse than others. When there is a miss of analysts’ current estimates, the stock prices get punished. But ... Read More
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The following is excerpt from John Kemp | October 12, 2012 | Reuters.com |
(Reuters) - Frantic drilling activity across the United States has at last begun to moderate, as the industry responds to the plunge in prices for natural gas and now liquids such as butane and natural gasoline.
Production companies ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from rt.com | October 5, 2012 |
Russia is considering allowing foreign oil companies not only to operate on its Arctic shelf, but also to own licenses for exploration in the country’s Arctic waters.
The proposal was being discussed in Russia’s Energy Ministry, although no final decision ... Read More
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