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<title>EIN News: Belgium Oil &amp; Gas News</title>
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<title>Is this really bad?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192012713</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 04:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  - from Finance Minister Michael Cullen, through Reserve Bank Governor Dr Alan Bollard to National  ...  investors - people like Japanese housewives and Belgium dentists - are nervous and like to  ...  the price comes down. But the lower oil price is offset by our lower dollar,  ...
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<title>Should Uganda seek nuclear power?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191999738</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  This figure is 60 per cent for Belgium, 40 per cent for Sweden, 37 per  ...  the price of the one by natural gas and almost 4 times cheaper than the  ...  of coal, 3 kWh; 1 kg of Oil, 4 kWh. But 1 kg of uranium  ...
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<title>US stocks sink to five-year low</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191996253</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  But US stocks took fright after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the US economy  ...  the outlook for inflation had improved as oil and other commodity prices had fallen. &quot;In  ...  rescue package for the banking system Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands have significantly increased the  ...
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<title>Wall Street tumbles amid global sell-off</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191988871</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 01:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Fears about a global recession also caused oil to drop below $90 a barrel. &quot;The  ...  acquire a 75 percent stake in Fortis&apos;s Belgium bank after a government rescue failed. The  ...  rates to help stimulate the economy. With oil prices well off their midsummer highs and indicators  ...
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<title>Pender: Crisis spreads globally</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191987799</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 01:32 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  rescue plan last week. The governments of Belgium and Luxembourg arranged a complicated rescue of  ...  arranged a complicated rescue of Fortis, a Dutch-Belgian-Luxembourg insurance and banking concern, by French bank  ...  2.37 percent from 2 percent on Friday. Oil prices fell again Monday on concerns that  ...
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<title>Stock markets worldwide plunge over banking crisis (Today)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191952684</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 20:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  drop was partly the result of slumping oil prices. Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach  ...  of the country&apos;s largest lenders. In Brussels, Belgium, the hastily put-together acquisition of Belgium&apos;s Fortis  ...  the weekend failed to calm jitters over French-Belgian bank Dexia, whose shares plunged about 20  ...
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<title>Welcome to the Suicide Club. Notes on the Moscow property market</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191947246</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 20:16 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  a law in the market: cobblers, housewives, Belgian dentists and other uninformed people signal an  ...  strengthening rouble, the economy is slowing down, oil prices are considerably lower than at their peak  ...  soon as prices stopped growing they, like OPEC, announced the end of sales. Now what  ...
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<title>Iraq is on a knife&apos;s edge and 3000 Oil spills reported from Hurricane Ike.</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191944775</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 19:46 GMT</pubDate>
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...  is on a knife&apos;s edge and 3000 Oil spills reported from Hurricane Ike. Gentle readers  ...  we had a situation with oil or gas being spilled in the environment.&quot; This is  ...  Asia today, a day after Germany and Belgium were &quot;left scrambling to prevent the collapse  ...
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<title>GLANCE EU mergers and takeovers (Oct 7)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191944155</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 19:39 GMT</pubDate>
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...  10/deadline Oct. 15/simplified) -- Italy&apos;s Eni buys Belgian natural gas company Distrigas, part of French  ...  Petrochemical Industries Co KSC, controlled by Kuwait Petroleum Corp, acquire joint control of a new  ...  (notified Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified) -- Portuguese oil company Galp Energia acquires U.S. energy major  ...
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<title>Oil prices sink as turmoil goes global</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191941444</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 19:29 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... NEW YORK &amp;mdash; Oil prices plunged below $90 a barrel Monday,  ...  In other signs the meltdown is spreading, Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme said Sunday that  ...  that happens, analysts say the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may to cut production and  ...
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<title>Crisis Spreads Globally</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191933841</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 18:31 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  rescue plan last week. The governments of Belgium and Luxembourg arranged a complicated rescue of  ...  arranged a complicated rescue of Fortis, a Dutch-Belgian-Luxembourg insurance and banking concern, by French bank  ...  2.37 percent from 2 percent on Friday. Oil prices fell again Monday on concerns that  ...
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<title>Announcement Court Hearing Regarding Binding Declaration of the Shell Settlement Agreement</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191927663</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 17:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to declare the Non-US Settlement Agreement concerning reserve-related claims binding. The parties to the settlement  ...  18 other organizations representing individual shareholders from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands and  ...  Transport and Trading Company, plc.) and Shell Petroleum N.V. (the successor company to Royal Dutch  ...
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<title>Stock markets worldwide plunge over banking crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191922602</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 17:31 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  drop was partly the result of slumping oil prices. Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach  ...  of the country&apos;s largest lenders. In Brussels, Belgium, the hastily put-together acquisition of Belgium&apos;s Fortis  ...  the weekend failed to calm jitters over French-Belgian bank Dexia, whose shares plunged about 20  ...
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<title>Market Movers: Oct. 7</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191911945</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 16:49 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  BNP Paribas SA bought parts of Fortis, Belgium&amp;rsquo;s largest financial-services company. Chevron Corp. declined more  ...  Corp. declined more than 3 percent as oil traded below $90 a barrel. The Dow  ...  percent to $17.41. Energy shares declined as oil prices fell below $90 a barrel for the  ...
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<title>www.companiesandmarkets.com: Monthly Price Brief - A Review of European Gas and Power Price Trends - May 2008</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191904511</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 16:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Price Brief - A Review of European Gas and Power Price Trends - May 2008  ...  of traded power prices in the UK, Belgian, Dutch, German and French wholesale power markets.  ...  NBP&apos;&apos;s premium value is eroded over time. Oil prices saw a meteoritic rise as geopolitics  ...
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