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ProShares has just launched four new exchange-traded funds. While these are not “all” BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), BRIC investors will now get a couple of more tools to short...
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Last week, there was more continued media coverage of the death of David Carradine about the weekend elections in Iran. Yet, here we sit on Monday and there have been riots in the streets of Tehran...
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We keep getting asked a single question from readers and from our own industry and professional contacts: Are Oil Stocks Cheap? There is a very simple answer in today’s markets: Oil stocks look...
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NYSE Euronext has begun trading the IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (NYSE: MCRO), sponsored by IndexIQ Advisors LLC. This marks the second product by IndexIQ Advisors to list on NYSE Arca after its IQ...
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Reuters: 3D is bringing a new dimension to the computer world. Reuters: The Supreme Court was asked to block Chrysler sale. Reuters: China bankers called for US sales of yuan bonds....
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Reuters: GM (GM) will file for Chapter 11 today. Reuters: Geithner told China its dollar assets are safe. Reuters: A judge approved the sale of most of Chrysler’s assets to a group led...
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The $10 billion loan from the China Development Bank to Brazil’s Petroleo Brasiliero SA, known as Petrobras (NYSE: PBR), has been finalized. This deal has been in our pending file since late...
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It is rare that you see an election have this large of an impact, but the Indian stock market surged on the new election results. The Congress Party won a decisive victory in India and this sent...
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The Venezuelan government passed a law permitting the nationalization of oil field services companies, compensating companies for expropriating assets by issuing bonds instead of paying with cash....
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Japan’s Nikkei newspaper has reported that Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has reach an agreement to sell about 1.5 billion cubic meters/year of natural gas from the Sakhalin-1 project to...
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There was a new ETF launch today on the NYSE Euronext. The WisdomTree Dreyfus Emerging Currency Fund (NYSE: CEW) marks the 50th ETF listed by WisdomTree on NYSE Arca. The “CEW” fund will seek...
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Leading oil and gas industry news source, Platts, named Brazil’s national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE:PBR), aka Petrobras, its hydrocarbon producer of the year for 2008. Platts cited...
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Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE: WMB) is getting to disclose just how fun it can be in dealing with a volatile regime in Latin America. Venezuela is front and center, and now the company plans to...
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The International Monetary Fund is out with yet another gloomy projection today. We had already seen the reports of another $4.1 trillion in writedowns being needed, but this morning the IMF took...
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The so-called East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) crude oil pipeline from Russian oilfields in western Siberia will be more than 3,000 miles long when it is completed. Part of the project to transport...
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