Oil creeps toward $70 in Asia after 9-day drop
AP - 2 hours 55 minutes agoAP - Oil prices crept toward $70 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after dropping the last nine days on investor doubts about a recovery in U.S. crude demand.
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TruckingInfo.com - 3 minutes ago12/15/2009 - Diesel Takes Largest Dip in Six Weeks Diesel continued its six-week trend, losing 2.4 cents this week to land at a national average of $2.748...
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European, U.S. Index Futures Advance; Asian Shares Decline
Bloomberg - 10 minutes agoDec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- European and U.S. stock-index futures advanced as commodity prices gained and economists forecast U.S. industrial production rose. Asian shares fell.
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Oil Rises From a Two-Month Low as Investors Buy at Below $70
Bloomberg - 23 minutes agoDec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Oil recouped some of the losses from its longest losing streak in eight years as investors viewed a drop below $70 a barrel as a buying opportunity.
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China shares slip on property speculation curbs
AP via Yahoo! Finance - 24 minutes agoChinese shares fell Tuesday, with losses led by property shares after the government vowed to curb real estate speculation to keep prices under control.
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Exxon Mobil makes $29B bet on natural gas
The Journal News - 26 minutes agoExxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is making a $29 billion bet that pressure to curb climate change will mean natural gas — cleaner than coal and suddenly much easier to reach — will become a crucial source of U.S. power.
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Williams gets OK to keep drilling in Battlement Mesa
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - 51 minutes agoGLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The Williams gas drilling company can finish up its work at two Battlement Mesa well pads without further ado, thanks to a decision Monday by the Garfield County commissioners. The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a pair of special use permits for the well pads, which are located within the sprawling Battlement Mesa Planned Unit Development ...
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Exxon to buy natural gas firm
The Clarion-Ledger - 56 minutes agoExxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is making a $29 billion bet that pressure to curb climate change will mean natural gas - cleaner than coal and suddenly much easier to reach - will become a crucial source of U.S. power.
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Exxon's $29B natural gas gamble points to deals by other oil giants
Arizona Daily Star - 1 hour 0 minutes agoExxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is making a $29 billion bet that pressure to curb climate change will mean natural gas — cleaner than coal and suddenly much easier to reach — will become a crucial source of U.S. power.
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All major Reno-Sparks casinos seeking devaluation of properties
Reno Gazette-Journal - 1 hour 2 minutes agoFourteen casino properties in Washoe County will be devalued by $99 million -- 26.5 percent -- for tax purposes in the year starting July 1, because of the continuing decline in gaming.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Webinar Shows Complementary Capabilities Of XRF And ICP For Rapid Elemental Screening Without ...
FoodOnline - 1 hour 7 minutes agoThermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently announced a new educational webinar entitled "Rapid Screening: Analyzing 75 Elements in 10 Minutes without Sample Preparation"
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Big Oil Seen Running ‘Race to the Altar’ After Exxon’s XTO Deal
Bloomberg - 1 hour 10 minutes agoDec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. ’s $30 billion purchase of XTO Energy Inc., the largest U.S. petroleum takeover since 2006, may signal a wave of acquisitions as major producers seek to tap growing gas and oil output from shale formations.
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The Post and Courier - 1 hour 17 minutes agoNEW YORK -- Easing concerns about debt problems overseas and a $31 billion takeover deal by Exxon Mobil Corp. nudged major stock indexes to new highs for the year.
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As markets climb, so do gas prices
The Journal News - 1 hour 23 minutes agoNow that the Dow Jones industrial average has shown a fairly impressive march upward from those harrowing days below 7,000 in March, it's not too early to turn attention to something we haven't worried about much for a while.
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OPTISWIRL 4070 Put To Test
ChemicalOnline - 1 hour 27 minutes agoDuisburg Germany, Today, natural gas is one of the most important energy carriers in many factory processes with constantly increasing sales. In many companies and plants it is an easy to handle fuel, without which operation is virtually unimaginable
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Webinar Shows Complementary Capabilities Of XRF And ICP For Rapid Elemental Screening Without ...
ChemicalOnline - 1 hour 27 minutes agoThermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently announced a new educational webinar entitled "Rapid Screening: Analyzing 75 Elements in 10 Minutes without Sample Preparation"
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All major Reno-Sparks casinos seeking devaluation of properties
Reno Gazette-Journal - 1 hour 33 minutes agoFourteen casino properties in Washoe County will be devalued by $99 million -- 26.5 percent -- for tax purposes in the year starting July 1, because of the continuing decline in gaming.
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All major Reno-Sparks casinos seeking devaluation of properties
Reno Gazette-Journal - 1 hour 48 minutes agoFourteen casino properties in Washoe County will be devalued by $99 million -- 26.5 percent -- for tax purposes in the year starting July 1, because of the continuing decline in gaming.
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Total’s Feyzin Refinery Workers Vote for Strike, Progres Says
Bloomberg - 1 hour 55 minutes agoDec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Workers at Total SA’s refinery at Feyzin near Lyon have voted to strike in support of their demands for higher pay, Le Progres reported on its Web site, citing the CFDT union.
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Oil Rises From a Two-Month Low as Investors Buy at Below $70
Bloomberg - 1 hour 57 minutes agoDec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Oil recouped some of the losses from its longest losing streak in eight years as investors viewed a drop below $70 a barrel as a buying opportunity.
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Oil Rises From a Two-Month Low as Investors Buy at Below $70
Bloomberg - 2 hours 10 minutes agoDec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Oil recouped some of the losses from its longest losing streak in eight years as investors viewed a drop below $70 a barrel as a buying opportunity.
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