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Russia Beats Saudi Arabia to Become China’s Top Oil Supplier
June 24th, 2015
Russia surpassed Saudi Arabia to become China‘s top oil supplier in May, news agency Bloomberg reported Tuesday, underlining the Kremlin’s efforts to boost ties with Beijing amid frosty relations with the West over the Ukraine crisis. Russian exports accounted for one-third of all China’s oil imports in May, ...
Gazprom building global alliance with expanded Shell
June 23rd, 2015
Gazprom is building a global strategic alliance with energy major Royal Dutch Shell that will include asset swaps and allow the Russian gas giant to penetrate new markets, its chief executive told Reuters. Gazprom, the world’s top gas producer, ...
Could Russia afford to bail out Greece and what would that mean?
June 22nd, 2015
There are deep cultural and historical ties between Greece and Russia. In terms of religion, the majority faith in both countries is Eastern Orthodox. And Russia has a track record of standing up for Greece, like it did during ...
Depressed Oil Prices Push OPEC Revenue Below $1 Trillion In 2014
June 19th, 2015
The 2014 crash in oil prices caused the combined oil earnings of OPEC’s 12 members to drop 11 percent from $1.112 trillion in 2013 to $993.3 billion in 2014. It is the first time the group’s revenue has fallen ...
Lower Oil Revenues See Saudi-Arabia Open Up Stock Exchange
June 18th, 2015
Saudi Arabia may be rich enough to weather the current trend of low oil prices, but it’s losing money nonetheless and has found a way that it believes could help make up for the loss: opening its stock market ...
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
June 18th, 2015
Fed: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that economic activity has been expanding moderately after having changed little during the first quarter. The pace of job gains picked up while the unemployment rate ...
China shares fall, other Asian markets mixed ahead of Fed
June 17th, 2015
Chinese stocks fell for a third day and other Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as investors looked ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s policy update. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index shed 2.4 percent to 4,769.73 and Tokyo’s Nikkei ...
The Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services Global Partnership Program
June 16th, 2015
The Philippines has been selected as one of the eight core implementing countries of the Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services Global Partnership Program. Find out more about the WAVES project in the Philippines through this list of ...
India seeks to use its oil thirst to drive bargains
June 16th, 2015
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks during an interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India India is trying to use its position as one of the world’s biggest energy consumers to strike better bargains for its companies with oil exporting ...
Bank of Russia key rate
June 15th, 2015
On 15 June 2015, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to reduce the key rate from 12.50 to 11.50 percent per annum, taking account of lower inflation risks and persistent risks of considerable economy cooling. Amid significant contraction in consumer demand and ruble appreciation in February-May 2015, consumer ...
