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Does A Commodities Crash Mean Global Depression, Mass-Devaluation Or Both?
July 22nd, 2015
First, precious metals peaked and began drifting lower. Then copper fell, oil plunged and it became obvious that these weren’t isolated events. The entire commodities complex — that is, all the physical inputs a modern economy uses to power, ...
IEA releases Oil Market Report for July
July 10th, 2015
Global oil demand growth slowing even as OPEC output at three-year high; OECD industry inventories surge to record Global oil demand growth is forecast to slow to 1.2 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2016, from an average 1.4 ...
China stocks rise after Beijing slaps curbs on selling
July 9th, 2015
Chinese stocks rallied on Thursday after the securities regulator banned shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling, in Beijing’s most drastic step yet to stem a sell-off that has roiled global financial markets. As the daily drumbeat ...
Third Visa Europe Collab opens in Berlin
July 6th, 2015
With the Visa Europe Collab innovation hubs in London (launch date: 1st May) and Tel Aviv (launch date: 23rd May) up and running, Berlin today becomes the official home of the third Visa Europe Collab. Visa Europe Collab in Berlin shares the mission ...
Greece No vote: Oil prices tumble
July 6th, 2015
Oil prices fell sharply early on Monday after Greece rejected austerity measures demanded in return for bailout money and as China rolled out an unprecedented series of steps to prevent a full-blown stock market crash. The result of the ...
Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China’s Stock Market
July 1st, 2015
Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not ...
What Would A Saudi-Russian Partnership Mean For World Energy?
June 25th, 2015
What happens when two nations, that together account for more than fourth quarter of global oil production, begin collaborating on future energy projects? Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Prince Mohammad in St. Petersburg on June 18 at a ...
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, ...
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 ...
No breakthrough expected at Eurogroup despite Faymann visit, Juncker call
June 18th, 2015
Expectations are low for significant progress in Greece’s talks with its lenders at Thursday’s meeting of finance ministers in Luxembourg, despite a brief phone call between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last night. A ...
