Archive for December 7th, 2007



China should not worry about allowing a more rapid appreciation of its currency as the yuan's 12 percent rise over the last two years has not dampened the economy or exports of the world most populous nation, the US Treasury said Friday.
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Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi will sign several contracts during a visit to France next week, including for Airbus planes and a nuclear reactor, his son said in an interview published Friday.
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French car maker Renault is to buy 25 percent of Avtovaz, the biggest Russian auto group and the manufacturer of the Lada brand, Avtovaz's parent company announced on Friday.
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Oil falls 2 pct and resumes steep slide

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7Dec 07

Oil fell 2 percent on Friday to below $88 a barrel, resuming a steep slide spurred by rising worries about the health of the U.S. economy.
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The head of Vattenfall Europe, an arm of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall, will be replaced after just four months in the post, the company said on Friday.
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7Dec 07

Latin American leaders on Sunday inaugurate the Bank of the South, the brainchild of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who hopes it will help wean the region off institutions like the IMF.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev tried on Friday to reassure business leaders on Kazakhstan's investment climate, as wrangling continued over the vast and troubled Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea.
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7Dec 07

Europe can depend on Russia to maintain its supply of gas to the continent, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said here Friday, days after striking a gas price agreement with Ukraine, a key transit country.
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BHP Billiton and Anglo American, two of the world's top miners, said Friday they planned to invest nearly one billion dollars (685 million euros) in two separate South African coal projects.
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German industrial output falls in October

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7Dec 07

German industrial production contracted by 0.3 percent in October from the previous month, mainly owing to lower output in the energy sector, figures released Friday by the economy ministry showed.
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