Tuesday, July 07, 2009

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Crude predictions: slipping and sliding over oil prices

Worldwide demand for oil is still fairly flat - so why are prices going up?

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      Crude predictions: slipping and sliding over oil prices By   (text)

      Monday 18 May 2009

      Worldwide demand for oil is still fairly flat - so why are prices going up?
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      Taking Iceland's economy out of the deep freeze By   (text)

      Monday 27 April 2009

      Iceland's new prime minister has been elected as the saviour of the tiny republic. Living up to that image is a huge proposition.
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      NATO at 60: looking forward or behind the times? By   (text)

      Friday 03 April 2009

      NATO's big birthday might be a good excuse for some transatlantic bonding. But the party-goers need to answer a crucial question: what's the organisation for?
    • A New World Order… for some By   (text)

      Friday 03 April 2009

      French President Nicolas Sarkozy says yesterday’s G20 summit in London marked the end of the “Anglo-Saxon” financial system.
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      The G20 voices that will be heard By   (text)

      Thursday 02 April 2009

      The G20 of rich and industrialised countries represents nine-tenths of the world's economy. But a sub-group of four fast-developing countries known as 'BRIC' (Brazil, Russia, India and China) is flexing its financial muscle as never before.
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      GM and Chrysler: out of gas? By   (text)

      Monday 30 March 2009

      GM and Chrysler have staved off collapse thanks to billions of dollars in government bailout cash. But with their future viability in doubt, Washington is unlikely to keep filling their tanks. Bankruptcy is on everyone's lips.
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      Clock starts ticking for Obama's greatest foreign policy challenge By   (text)

      Friday 27 March 2009

      Will US President Barack Obama's Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy work? The real question right now might be how long has he got?
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      Recession rage By   (text)

      Thursday 26 March 2009

      French workers are increasingly angry about a crisis that they feel has been foisted on them by forces beyond their control. And according to a new poll, they lay the lion's share of the blame at the door of banks and politicians.
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      China's dollar jitters By   (text)

      Wednesday 25 March 2009

      China holds the world's biggest hoard of dollar cash reserves — some $2 trillion. But it's worried that massive US stimulus spending could result in sky-high deficits that drag the dollar down, so it's looking for alternatives to the greenback.
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      Europe's rotating head goes into a spin By   (text)

      Tuesday 24 March 2009

      The Czech government has fallen almost halfway into its six-month presidency of the Europe Union. What does it mean for the future of the EU?
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      Geithner's toxic sales pitch By   (text)

      Monday 23 March 2009

      Timothy Geithner's plan to convince private investors to purchase banks' "toxic" assets makes selling snake oil look easy. But he sees it as an effective way of restoring health to the sclerotic US banking system.
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      New Year, new dawn in Iran? By   (text)

      Friday 20 March 2009

      Historic, unprecedented: Obama's televised address to Iran's people and leaders might be both of those things. But is it enough to overturn nearly 30 years of fear and loathing between the US and Iran?
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      Is Geithner up to the job? By   (text)

      Wednesday 18 March 2009

      The snowballing scandal over lavish bonuses at AIG is putting US President Barack Obama's financial-crisis management under close scrutiny. But it's his Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who's really in the line of fire.
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      AIG on your face By   (text)

      Monday 16 March 2009

      Fed chief Ben Bernanke says he's outraged at the sequence of events that led to the $170 billion bailout of AIG. But that's unlikely to placate American taxpayers' anger over where the money went.
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      Taking on the tax havens By   (text)

      Thursday 12 March 2009

      Tax havens are coming under growing pressure to lift the veil on the banking secrecy that's a hallmark of their financial culture. Liechtenstein is the latest offshore centre that's loosening the rules in an effort to burnish its image.
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      Citigroup's Miracle Memo By   (text)

      Wednesday 11 March 2009

      A memo to staff from Citigroup's chief executive, praising the bank's performance in the first two months of the year, sent Citi's and other banks' stocks surging. In today's febrile markets, investors cling to any hope of better days ahead.
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      Crisis castaways By   (text)

      Monday 09 March 2009

      The World Bank says the global economy is headed for its first contraction since the 1940s. As the rich world combats a deepening recession, many poorer nations without the means to lauch their own stimulus are at a disadvantage.
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      UBS still under US scrutiny By James Creedon

      Thursday 05 March 2009

      The Swiss bank UBS named a new chairman Tuesday, as a row with US authorities over tax evasion intensifies.
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      Rebooting Russian relations with NATO By   (text)

      Thursday 05 March 2009

      Reset, reboot - the US leadership seems to be adopting the language of IT technicians in its determination to reconcile East-West relations. But can computer-speak help write a new chapter for diplomacy?
    • Areva says Siemens' venture with Rosatom breaches contract By   (text)

      Wednesday 04 March 2009

      Germany's Siemens and Russia's state-owned atomic energy agency Rosatom announced a partnership deal Tuesday. Yet, Siemens's former French partner, Areva, says the deal breaches a contractual non-competition clause.
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