OPEC has agreed to cut production due to rapidly falling oil prices. Airlines and other Oil dependent companies rushed to buy call options to lock in the current prices. A call option means buyers can...
opinion by Albert Milliron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 252 views | 18 recommendations | 11 comments
Barry Artiste Op/Ed The case for exporting Cancer in Mineral form is Politics, plain and simple. Asbestos, Quebec is a small town, with a small population, but a big Liberal stronghold in the region by those...
opinion by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 952 views | 27 recommendations | 7 comments
Sarah Palin tells campaign audiences the United States needs to become energy independent, produce what we use and use what we produce."But the Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate has pushed the...
created by dunkelberg | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 139 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
A Egypt-Israel $2-3bn gas export deal has been challenged by the Egyptian ex director of international treaties,Ibrahim Yossri, on the grounds that it is illegal and costly. Egypt -the sixth largest exporter...
created by rahul | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 210 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
"While polemics were going on on its plan to increase domestic fuel oil prices prompted by world crude price hikes, the Indonesian government came up this week with an idea to quit the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).The idea is plausible. Indonesia is no...
created by uusjio | 3 years ago 238 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This exemplifies greatly how food can be used as a political tool."The countries of Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam have agreed in principle to form a rice price-fixing cartel...
created by jayr_patron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 392 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
"Non-fundamental factors are the main cause of the current fluctuations in the world crude oil price, a governor of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Maizar Rahman, said.The present downturn in the oil price was caused by a recovery in the US dollar`s...
created by uusjio | 3 years ago 858 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
London (ANTARA News) - OPEC could switch the pricing of oil from dollars into euros within a decade, secretary general Abdullah al-Badri was quoted by AFP as telling a weekly magazine.The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries could adopt the euro to combat the...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago 332 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Vienna (ANTARA News) - The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dropped by 1.37 dollars, continuing a downward trend, officials said WednesdayOne barrel (159 litres) of OPEC crude stood at 83.84 dollars on Tuesday,...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago 176 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
""It (the 100-dollar record) will be a psychological trigger for consumer countries," said global head of commodities at investment bank Societe Generale Frederic Lasserre."We will see governments putting pressure on OPEC, saying 'we need you to do something for us'. In the...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago 278 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Normally, I am never at a loss for words on any topic, this time News Columnist Eric Margolis takes the words right out of my mouth."Western nations have been rightly scourging China for flooding world markets...
created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 517 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
Singapore (ANTARA News) - Oil prices rose above 99 US dollars per
barrel in Asian trade on Wednesday, within striking distance of the
100-dollar level as the greenback slumped further, dealers said.
Concerns over tight global supplies was also helping push prices up, they...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago 223 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Venezuela's Communist leader Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) summit in Riyadh, said they no longer want be paid in U.S. dollars for their petroleum, but in euros.The outspoken US political...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago 267 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Singapore (ANTARA News) - Oil prices were higher in Asia on Monday as
traders again fretted over tight energy supplies with the northern
hemisphere winter approaching.
Indications that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is not about to raise output were also...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 151 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The 3rd Summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was concluded on Sunday afternoon with the issuance of a declaration on "Challenge of Globalization and Dynamic Global Energy Market...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 289 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments