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BusinessWeek
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Despite huge oil and gas reserves, Venezuela lurches into a power crisis caused by years of infrastructure neglect
Angela Marquez should be pleased, considering the long line of customers at her paint store in the central Venezuelan city of La Victoria..
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BusinessWeek
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Prices quickly fell on Tokyo's call to tap into its huge reserves. But how did the stash get so big, and why does rice-rich Japan import the staple?
With prices now falling, the global rice crisis seems to be subsiding. That's thanks in part to a polic..
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CNN
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Touring a drilling site on a dusty mountain plateau above Rifle, Colo., Harold Vinegar stops, grins and then announces out of the blue, "I love that smell!"
No, the Royal Dutch Shell chief scientist is not referring to the crisp fragrance of the high d..
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BBC News
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Oil prices rose above $77 a barrel on Thursday as official data showed that US reserves of crude and petrol had fallen more heavily than expected.
Dwindling hopes of a rise in output from next week's meeting of producers cartel Opec, also pushed up pri..
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Washington Post
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said plans to diversify the country's more than $1 trillion in reserves, roughly a third of which are held in U.S. Treasury bills, will not hurt the dollar or the American economy.
Speaking at the close of the annual session..
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New York Times
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BEIJING, March 9 — China will create an agency to invest its immense reserves of foreign currency, now totaling more than $1 trillion, the country’s finance minister announced on Friday.
The minister, Jin Renqing, offered no specifics about how muc..
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Yahoo News
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Oil prices fell Wednesday following a selloff on many global stock markets and expectations for lower demand from China, the world's second-largest oil consumer.
Still, continued tensions over Iran and expectations that the latest snapshot of U.S. inve..
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