1/17/2012 Newsfeed
- Just how big is the Bakken?
- Worthy reading from Stratfor
- Backgrounder for 2012 U.S. presidential race
- Soldiers deployed as Nigerian fuel strike ends
- China’s gross domestic product growth slowed to 8.9% in the last quarter of 2011, compared with a year earlier, showing that the world’s fastest engine of growth is downshifting.
- Center on Foreign Relations Backgrounder on “Oil’s Trouble Spots”
- A senior American diplomat urged South Korea on Tuesday to reduce its imports of Iranian crude oil as the United States continued to seek support from major Asian economies to increase pressure on Tehran to halt its nuclear program.
- Egypt’s military backed government has demanded a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) worth $3.2 billion to help ease the country’s growing budget deficit, a minister said after meeting with an IMF delegation in Cairo on Monday.
- A hacker brought down the websites of Israel’s national carrier El Al and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE).
- Merkl is wrong about EU fiscal regulation: The case for a sovereign credit club
- ESFS sells bills smoothly after S&P downgrade
- http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000066961
- China’s hunger for gas fuels hostile bid
- Saudi Arabia is aiming to keep oil prices at about $100 a barrel, a third above its previous public target, in a sign that Riyadh needs higher oil revenues to sustain a big rise in public spending.
- Venezuela has made another push to increase control over its oil industry, announcing plans to leave the World Bank’s international arbitration body and potentially putting billions of dollars of foreign investment at risk.
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