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ThinkstockFor the month of February, global crude oil supplies rose to 92.81 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Oil Market Report for the month. That is...
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The Times of India reported Thursday that Microsoft has offered Windows Phone 8 to two Indian phone makers at no charge. Two companies were identified by Microsoft at last week's Mobile World...
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ThinkstockVladimir Putin’s decision to try to seize Crimea from Ukraine may make nationalists happy, but investors — Russian or otherwise — are getting clobbered. Russian stocks have been in a...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a notice of sale on Wednesday for 5 million barrels of sour crude from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Interested buyers have...
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Wikimedia CommonsToyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) announced Wednesday morning that the company would raise workers’ base pay by 0.8% or $26 a month at the beginning of the new fiscal year that starts...
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FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has issued a new investor alert to caution investors that buying and using digital currency such as Bitcoin carry risks, and that the platforms...
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ThinkstockThe 1970s ban on exporting U.S. crude oil may or may not be lifted, but that is not going to slow down the export of what we might call ‘near-crude’. New, low-cost plants that process...
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ThinkstockThe Canadian National Energy Board on Thursday approved a plan by Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) to reverse the east-to-west flow of crude oil and permit the company’s Line 9B pipeline to...
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ThinkstockEver since the early days of the World Wide Web, people have talked about making individual news stories available for very small amounts of money. The so-called micro-payments idea never...
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Mining giant Rio Tinto already owns 50.8% of Turquoise Hill Resources, and speculation that Rio Tinto will buy the other 49.2% has boosted Turquoise Hill's share price by nearly 13%.
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After sliding as much as 1% on Monday, equity futures are pointing to a comeback on Tuesday following the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops in western Russia to return...
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ThinkstockBefore getting too excited about the end of tensions, one must understand that the Russian ambitions in Crimea and the Ukraine will not likely disappear overnight. Still, world markets...
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ThinkstockOil and gold were not the only commodities to trade at higher prices Monday. Agricultural commodities, too, are getting even bigger boosts from the troubles in Ukraine. During the Soviet...
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ThinkstockU.S. trade with Russia amounted around $33 billion in 2013, down from around $40 billion the year before. Russia had a tough year and, the Winter Olympic Games notwithstanding, 2014 is...
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ThinkstockThe military actions in the Ukraine are costing Russia big time. Vladimir Putin received approval internally to use military action, but the men who approved the action may have cost...
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