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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 74.01 | -0.43 | -0.58% | ||
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Bonny Light • 20 hours | 76.57 | +0.93 | +1.23% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 75.47 | -1.62 | -2.10% | ||
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Mars US • 4 hours | 72.83 | +1.44 | +2.02% | ||
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Gasoline • 12 mins | 2.654 | +0.013 | +0.48% |
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Bonny Light • 20 hours | 76.57 | +0.93 | +1.23% | ||
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Girassol • 20 hours | 79.08 | +1.14 | +1.46% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 75.47 | -1.62 | -2.10% |
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Peace Sour • 19 hours | 65.99 | -0.41 | -0.62% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 19 hours | 67.29 | -0.41 | -0.61% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 19 hours | 76.24 | -0.41 | -0.53% | ||
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Central Alberta • 19 hours | 65.59 | -0.41 | -0.62% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 68.22 | -0.41 | -0.60% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 68.25 | -0.50 | -0.73% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 62.00 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 6 days | 76.40 | +1.64 | +2.19% |
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Geopolitics / International
The Vital Relationship Between China and the United States
A number of events in April-June 2010 has seemed to suggest that relations between the United States and China are back on track after a difficult period. They include Hu…
Energy Cooperation Drives a Murky Venezuela-Iran Relationship
During the course of May 2010, Iran and Venezuela continued to pursue agreements in the areas of security, business, housing, and so-called "non-aligned country" diplomacy. Energy, however, remains the mutual…
Georgia and Moldova Shocked at the Prospect of New EU Plan
Officials in Moldova and Georgia are reacting with concern to speculation that the EU is poised to remove special representatives appointed to their regions. If confirmed, the change would signal…
Chinese Plans to End US Hegemony in the Pacific
The US is developing an air-sea battle concept to counter China's military buildup. But political problems and budgetary woes could kill the program before it ever gets started. China's People's…
Russia’s War Games Preparing for Conflict with the East
Russia should tackle negative socio-economic and demographic trends in the Far East and Siberia instead of reacting to China's continuing rise if it wants to head off the chances of…
NATO Not Learning Lessons in Afghanistan as it prepares for another Military "Triumph"
We need to break old assumptions if Afghanistan and Pakistan are to be secured. The term “exit strategy” often signifies a tacit admission of basic mistakes committed upon entering a…
Turkey Delays Breakthrough Gas Agreement with Azerbaijan
In a surprise move, Turkey and Azerbaijan have postponed signing a package agreement on gas issues that had been touted as a strategic breakthrough on gas shipments to Europe. Turkish…
The Afghan Problem: Logistics, Re-supply & Growing Violence
Recent events highlight both the possibilities and fragility of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) presence in Afghanistan nine years after Operation Enduring Freedom began. There were a number of…
State Security: A Strategic Partnership between Moscow and the West
Russia, Europe and the US should form a firm alliance against common threats, which, if not addressed together, will grow to pose grave challenges to their security. On 9 May,…
Nuclear Apartheid: Trouble Brewing amongst Non-Nuclear States
The credibility of the nuclear non-proliferation regime is at stake as the treaty risks collapsing under structural fissures created by its very birth. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference,…
The Political Cost of Military Bases in Post-Soviet Space
Governments with foreign military bases tend to shy away from publicity about their colonial outposts, and recent events in the post-Soviet space shine an unwelcome spotlight on US and Russian…
China Set to Supply Pakistan with Two New Nuclear Reactors
As the UN’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference is underway in New York, reports that China is set to allow its state entities to supply two new nuclear reactors…
Economic Strategy of Turkmenistan
In April 2010, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan made public his newly released “Economic strategy of Turkmenistan: Relying on the people, for the sake of the people.” “…The…
Tension Builds in the Gulf of Guinea as Competition for Economic Resources Increases
The strategic framework and the correlation of forces in the Gulf of Guinea — one of the most significant and growing energy resource regions of the world — is changing…
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…
Changing the Balance of Power: 16 Geopolitical Megatrends Affecting Every Aspect of your Life
Substantial and unmistakable signs of profound change in the global strategic framework have become concrete in the past year. The stress in the structure has already developed into fissures. The…
Oil, Politics and Power
Oil and politics have always gone together for a simple reason; since oil became an indispensable commodity without which the world as we know it today would not function, countries…
The Great Oil Grab! How the Major Powers are Dividing the World's Resources
China and Russia will stay on tenterhooks for decades to come, on the question of sufficiency of energy supplies, notwithstanding the oil grab they have indulged in over the past…
