OIL IS A STRATEGIC PRODUCT, NOT A COMMODITY: Argentina and the International Oil Picture GlobalResearch | Oil is not a commodity, oil is not a raw product either. Just look at the complexity of the techniques for its efficient extraction. Oil is a strategic product that models international policies and since the late nineteenth century, oil guides the foreign policy of great powers – regardless of rh...
Mercuria looks to invest in LNG assets The Guardian By Henning Gloystein LONDON (Reuters) - Geneva-based energy trading house Mercuria is looking to buy into liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets in order to benefit from large gas trading opportunities that are developing between North America, Europe an...
Video: Ronald Reagan's speech on Grenada and Lebanon The Examiner | On October 27, 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered a televised address to the nation on violence which had erupted in Lebanon and Grenada. [Video] The president gave his remarks from the Oval Office and reminded Americans that, despite the ...
UW's Landweber inducted into Internet Hall of Fame Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Al Gore has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. So has Wisconsin's Larry Landweber. | I'm betting you know all about Gore, the former vice president and U.S. senator who is occasionally the butt of jokes on late-night comedy shows. While Go...
Exclusive - Barclays loses commodities trading chief Jones to Mercuria The Guardian By Christopher Johnson LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays has lost its commodities trading chief Roger Jones to Swiss trader Mercuria in one of the biggest moves by commodities traders from banks, scrutinised by regulators. Dozens of traders have recently q...
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. Reports Record First Quarter Earnings Seeking Alpha | Strong Nitrogen Prices and Early Spring Application Drive Profitability | DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF): | First Quarter Highlights Record first quarter net earnings attributable to common stockholders of $368...
Markets Live: Gains in miners offset by banks Canberra Times | Australian shares have closed slightly higher, with gains in the miners offset by losses among the big banks. More signs of recovery in China's manufacturing sector helped sentiment. | 4.28pm: The Australian dollar struggled to make much headway to...
Obama attacks Romney on exported jobs, Swiss bank accounts The Los Angeles Times | Hot on the heels of its to use the Osama bin Laden killing as fodder for an attack ad on Mitt Romney, the campaign to reelect President Obama started running ads Tuesday criticizing Romney for outsourcing jobs and having a . It's a step forward in ...
World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. | The fall in European shares followed a sharp downturn in Asia where markets were also rattled by weak U.S. manufacturing figures. | The nervousness about Spain's banks co...
