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The U.S. markets were closed on Monday, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Day. Europe and Asia, however, were not closed.
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Brazil is one of the so-called BRIC nations, an investment term denoting Brazil, Russia, India and China. This used to have great growth connotations for investors, but as you can tell by the past...
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ThinkstockUsually when you see a 2030 or 2040 projection from an energy company, you would probably expect for the company making the presentation to be talking up their own book. So what happens...
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ThinkstockAutomaker General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) has confirmed its layoff of more than 1,000 employees at its Brazilian operations in Sao Jose dos Campos in Sao Paulo state. The layoff has been in...
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has named its top 10 EMEA (Europe, Mid-East, Africa) picks as short-term stock recommendations for the first quarter of 2014. Several of them will be very well known to...
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Courtesy RosneftGlobal mega-bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) said late Friday that it has agreed to sell its global oil trading business to Russia’s state-controlled oil giant OAO Rosneft for an...
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Courtesy Boeing Co.As of December 17, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) had booked a net total for 1,074 new planes in 2013, compared with a net total of 1,314 new orders reported by archrival Airbus. On...
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Standard & Poor's downgrade of European Union long-term debt to AA+ puts it on par with the rating of the long-term debt of the United States.
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Uralkali, the Russian half of the former Belarusian Potash cartel, said that its export price for potash had fallen 27% to $272 per metric ton (tonne) in the third quarter.
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Wikimedia CommonsIs Bitcoin shortable yet? That is the question I have heard from several financial professionals over the last month or so. Now comes yet another crushing blow for Bitcoin, and it...
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ThinkstockIndependent oil and gas producer Harvest Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: HNR) announced Monday morning that it has agreed to sell all its Venezuelan assets in two transactions for a total of...
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ThinkstockThe Mexican Senate Wednesday approved a change to the country’s constitution that would end the government’s 75-year monopoly on crude oil production. The bill was sent along to the...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe craze around Bitcoin has been monumental. This will either become a great alternative currency, or it will become one of the most obvious bubbles (after the fact, of course) in...
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Petroleos MexicanosMexico nationalized its oil reserves in 1938, and since then the only company allowed to produce the country’s vast reserves has been Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. But...
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courtesy of BaiduBaidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is likely one of the key reasons that Bitcoin has been able to rise handily and gain more adoption. After all, when the largest search engine site in China...
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