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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 72.37 | -1.54 | -2.08% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 73.87 | -2.50 | -3.27% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 75.88 | +1.13 | +1.51% | ||
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Mars US • 2 days | 68.46 | -0.70 | -1.01% | ||
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Gasoline • 2 days | 2.589 | -0.017 | -0.67% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 73.87 | -2.50 | -3.27% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 74.31 | -2.28 | -2.98% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 75.88 | +1.13 | +1.51% |
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Peace Sour • 2 days | 64.21 | -0.94 | -1.44% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 2 days | 65.51 | -0.94 | -1.41% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 2 days | 74.46 | -0.94 | -1.25% | ||
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Central Alberta • 2 days | 63.81 | -0.94 | -1.45% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 66.44 | -0.94 | -1.40% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 66.50 | -1.25 | -1.85% | ||
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Kansas Common • 25 days | 64.52 | +0.64 | +1.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 76.62 | -0.94 | -1.21% |
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Pakistan Defense Reorganization: Positive, Stabilizing Move to Enable Security After a Coalition Withdrawal
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Solar Energy Still Has a Long Way to Go
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The Technical Case for the TBT
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Captured CO2 to be Used as a New Fuel Source Using Solar Power
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How the Lizard Brain Kills Exploration Projects
Exploration is a complex business. Ore bodies are almost never straight-forward. And in most cases the only information the exploration team has about these complex structures is gained from pencil-thin…
Watch International Savings Rates for Market Cues
Often while searching for a piece of data through Google, I stumble across something else, which is far more interesting. That is how I found the table below of international…
International Community Presses Juba, Khartoum On Sudan Referendum
The international community is pressuring the Juba and Khartoum governments to speed up preparation for a vote on South Sudan’s future – a decision that will be dominated by the…
Middle East Oil Producers Might Consider BP Investment – to Diversify
With BP poised to move on from the Gulf oil spill with a new chief executive, the beleaguered London-based company might look attractive to Middle East sovereign wealth funds after…
Political Instability in Japan and it’s Implications for the US-Japan Alliance
The ruling party's inability to gain a single-party majority in the Upper House means that political instability in Tokyo will continue at least until the next election, unlikely to be…
Natural Gas Royalties and Chaos Theory
We all know the famous (and oversimplified) explanation of chaos theory. If a butterfly flaps in Moscow, it creates typhoons in Manila. The basic point being there are no closed…
Raising the Red Flags on Commodity ETF’s
The July 26-August 1, 2010 print edition of Business Week magazine put out a brilliant piece entitled “Amber Waves of Pain” detailing how retail investors are getting fleeced when playing…
Russians See the East as a Greater Threat Than the West
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Is Matt Simmons Credible?
I am going to address a touchy subject in this essay, but I simply can’t ignore it any longer. I have noticed that a lot of people are finding my…
