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Investing: Can you retire on $1 million?
October 24th, 2014
Probably. But you have to be smart about your investments and your withdrawals. some tips. If you read any financial advertising, you know that your savings are inadequate, and you’re likely to freeze to death in the dark a ...
Oil prices sink to 27-month lows on rising supplies
October 23rd, 2014
Oil prices likely to continue to slide as oil prices sink to 27-month lows in a move that’s likely to continue pushing gasoline prices toward below $3 a gallon. Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for mid-December delivery dropped 2.4% to ...
How Wall Street Is Killing Big Oil
October 22nd, 2014
Lee Raymond, the famously pugnacious oilman who led ExxonMobil between 1999 and 2005, liked to tell Wall Street analysts that covering the company would be boring. “You’ll just have to live with outstanding, consistent financial and operating performance,” he ...
Oil Rises After Chinese GDP Surprises at 7.3% in Q3
October 21st, 2014
West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes advanced after Chinese economic growth exceeded analysts’ estimates, signaling stronger fuel demand in the world’s second-biggest oil consuming country. Futures rose as much as 1.5 percent in New York and 1.2 percent in ...
The future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
October 17th, 2014
China recently reaffirmed that it backs India and Pakistan becoming members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). At the 14th meeting of the Council of Heads of States of SCO on 12 September, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for ...
UK blocks €5bn Russian North Sea deal
October 16th, 2014
The UK has blocked a €5bn deal by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman to acquire gas fields in the North Sea, as even private Russian companies with no connection to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s inner circle fall victim to the ...
Oil prices tumble 4% on demand outlook
October 15th, 2014
Crude oil prices tumble again on lower demand; gas prices to follow. Another slump in crude oil prices pummeled the energy sector on Tuesday. Benchmark West Texas sank 4% to $82.32 a barrel – a 28-month low – while ...
Statoil sells Shah Deniz stake for $2.25 billion to Petronas
October 13th, 2014
Norway’s Statoil (STL.OL) has sold its remaining 15.5 percent stake in the Azeri gas project Shah Deniz to Malaysia’s Petronas for $2.25 billion, the latest in a string of asset sales made to shore up returns to shareholders. ...
I.M.F. warns of Global Financial Risk
October 13th, 2014
Policy makers at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund said that high debt in China and a lack of spending in Europe, among other factors, could provoke a market convulsion. A more immediate concern drew the attention of ...
Hong Kong protests about economics as much as democracy
October 10th, 2014
For years, Beijing has feared colour revolutions. Now, it has one on Chinese soil. The Occupy Central movement has morphed into the Umbrella Revolution. Tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens, including students as young as 13, have taken ...