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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 87.56 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Bonny Light • 19 hours | 88.04 | -0.81 | -0.91% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.72 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Mars US • 179 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 5 hours | 2.711 | -0.038 | -1.38% |
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Bonny Light • 19 hours | 88.04 | -0.81 | -0.91% | ||
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Girassol • 19 hours | 89.07 | -0.57 | -0.64% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.72 | +0.00 | +0.00% |
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Peace Sour • 18 hours | 75.83 | -1.22 | -1.58% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 18 hours | 78.88 | -1.22 | -1.52% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 18 hours | 85.83 | -1.22 | -1.40% | ||
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Central Alberta • 18 hours | 76.23 | -1.22 | -1.58% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.11 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 79.00 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.00 | -1.00 | -1.35% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 88.82 | +0.60 | +0.68% |
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10 Geopolitical Predictions for 2010 & Short Term Strategic Outlook
A great - and still growing - divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democratic” leaders and…
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Save The Middle Class While Fixing the Banks for Good
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Get Ready, A Major Change Has Hit
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Crude Oil Prices Fall Victim to China Syndrome
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Will India Become the Largest Nuclear Energy Producer in the World?
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Oil, Politics and Power
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Is the Market Flashing a "Sell" Signal
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Media and Political Hysteria Over Yemen Hides a Deeper Strategic Matrix of Long-Term Importance
US and Western European political leaders have begun to focus on Yemen as a source of projected instability and as a haven for jihadist terrorism against the West. This simplistic…
A Look at the Exploration Business and Mining Economics
We spend a lot of money looking for mines. Drilling, trenching, sampling, assaying, metallurgical testing, running geophysical surveys, taking soil geochemistry samples. All of these things are necessary to locate…
Oil Prices Fall as Winter Premium Melts Away
Oil Market roundup: 11/01/2010 to 15/01/2010. Crude oil futures fell for five straight sessions as warmer weather in the U.S. dispelled forecasts of unusually low temperatures and allowed concerns about…
The Tepee Shaped Recovery
The shape of this economic recovery will not be in a “V”, as many pundits have promulgated, but instead may be the inversion of that letter…which will unfortunately look much…
