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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 Guy Chazan | December 5, 2011 | WSJ.com
Big Oil is redrawing the energy map.
For decades, its main stomping grounds were in the developing world—exotic locales like the Persian Gulf and the desert sands of North Africa, the Niger Delta and the Caspian Sea. But ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Pierre Bertrand | December 14, 2011 | ibtimes.com |
ConocoPhillips stole the show at Wednesday's Gulf of Mexico Lease sale with the largest bid an oil company has ever made for a single tract of Gulf real estate.
The U.S. supermajor blew its competition out of ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Moran Zhang | March 1, 2013 | ibtimes.com |
Currency Wars 2013: Japan’s Weak Yen Strikes Big Blow, US Dollar, South Korean Won, Euro Join In The Fray; Global Economies Could Feel The Pain
Although Japanese leaders won’t admit it, the country has quietly declared war ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ELIZABETH O'BRIEN | March 8, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
The price of uranium has fallen about 25 percent since the meltdown of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. Such plants, of course, use uranium as fuel. Yet despite all the increased concerns about nuclear energy, "no ... 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 IAN BERRY | February 17, 2012 | WSJ.com |
The milk market is becoming more liquid.
Long a backwater of the commodities market, milk futures and options activity has soared. The number of outstanding contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange averaged 110,197 in January, up 32% ... Read More
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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 The Associated Press | February 20, 2012 | ABCNEWS |
An Iranian semiofficial news agency says Tehran is considering extending an oil embargo on France and Britain to other European countries.
The Monday report by Mehr quoted head of the National Iranian Oil Company Ahmad Qalehbani ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Kirk Spano | January 18, 2012 | marketwatch.com |
As discussed last week, improvements in hydraulic fracturing has led to vast opportunities for oil and gas service companies that can stay on the right side of the EPA. As most readers know, fracking is also ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Mark Shenk | October 14, 2011 10:38 AM ET | BLOOMBERG.COM
Crude oil rose, heading for a second weekly gain, as the Group of 20 began discussions in Paris on a solution to Europe’s debt crisis and U.S. retail sales climbed.
Futures increased as much as ... Read More
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