Archive for November 23rd, 2007


In UK financial news
23Nov 07

Oil rose on Friday as cold weather hit the giant U.S. Northeast heating oil market and the dollar recovered from fresh lows.
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Oil prices firm after run at 100 dollars

Posted by UK Economy News
In UK financial news
23Nov 07

World oil prices pushed closer toward 100 dollars a barrel Friday as traders worried about tight supplies and geopolitical jitters in key oil producing states.
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Russian aluminium giant Rusal said Friday it had reached a deal to acquire a 25-percent stake in fellow Russian metals group Norilsk Nickel from the Onexim investment group, a statement said.
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Fiat is to invest nearly 3.4 billion dollars in South America's biggest car market, Brazil, over the next three years to boost in-country production, the CEO of the Italian automaker, Sergio Marchione, said Friday.
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Taiwan's decision to block the appointment of a Chinese judge to the World Trade Organisation's top court risks causing an institutional crisis, a key official warned on Friday.
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Oil prices firm after run at 100 dollars

Posted by UK Economy News
In UK financial news
23Nov 07

World oil prices edged up Friday, after shooting close to 100 dollars earlier this week, as traders worried about tight supplies and geopolitical jitters in key producers.
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The economy expanded at a slower-than-expected rate of 0.7 percent in the third quarter of 2007, according to official data published Friday.
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India's Supreme Court barred Britain's Vedanta Resources Plc on Friday from mining bauxite in sacred, forested hills in the east of the country where tribal people and voluntary groups strongly oppose it.
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The European aerospace group EADS might cancel the sale of factories owned by its aircraft manufacturing unit Airbus and group them instead into a new division, a press report said Friday.
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German banks that helped pull peer IKB back from the brink of bankruptcy in late July no longer want to pay for the public institution, which might need millions more to replenish its coffers, press reports and spokespeople said Friday.
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