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Asian Equities Mixed on Soft Lead
September 9th, 2014
Asian indices were mostly higher on Tuesday amid light volumes as markets in South Korea and Hong Kong were closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Overnight in the U.S., Wall Street closed mixed with energy producers leading losses on oil’s ...
Rosneft struggles to grow as sanctions hit Russia’s oil champion
September 9th, 2014
The Kremlin’s prized oil firm Rosneft is cutting staff and production and selling stakes in Siberian fields in the strongest evidence to date that Western sanctions are hurting what was the world’s fastest growing oil firm in recent years. ...
Investigation Reveals Surprising Way Foreign Governments Buy Influence In D.C.
September 9th, 2014
An investigation by The New York Times has found that several prominent Washington, D.C. think tanks have regularly taken donations from foreign entities in exchange for using their influence over U.S. policy decisions. The damning report, published in the ...
Doubts return at SandRidge a year after CEO ousted by investors
September 8th, 2014
In June 2013, activist investors got the board of SandRidge Energy Inc to fire its CEO Tom Ward, arguing that he had mismanaged the Oklahoma City company and destroyed billions in shareholder value. The oil and gas producer’s shares ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
September 8th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 8, 2014 EUR/USD Profit taking and a higher close in the EURUSD on Friday following Thursday’s sharp decline. Failure to trade intraday above 1.30 suggests this round figure is a strong resistance level ...
As Brazil Vote Nears, Testimony Ties Top Political Figures to Corruption Scandal
September 8th, 2014
As Brazilians prepare to vote in a national election next month, a scandal involving the state-controlled oil giant Petrobras flared up again this weekend over testimony that implicated dozens of top figures in President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition in ...
Europe Needs A New Source of Oil and Gas, Fast
September 5th, 2014
Summer is over and many Europeans may have to keep warm this coming winter by thinking about their summer holidays while wrapped in blankets, praying for a short winter or for the world to come to its senses. It ...
Brent Oil Drifts Below $102 on U.S. Inventories
September 5th, 2014
Oil fell on Thursday, with a surprise rate cut from the European Central Bank boosting the dollar and hitting commodities priced in the U.S. currency. Losses were limited by a drop in crude oil inventories in the United States, ...
West TX Oil Surges Back to $96 on Data
September 4th, 2014
Crude oil prices climbed by more than $2 a barrel on both sides of the Atlantic on Wednesday, as oil markets bounced off multi month lows hit in the previous session. Prospects for peace between Ukraine and Russia, as ...
Which European countries would be hardest hit by a Russian gas embargo?
September 4th, 2014
With relations between Europe and Russia at their worst point since the fall of the Berlin wall, the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) has taken it upon itself to examine what would happen to various European nations if Russia ...
