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...poor countries like South Korea, which buys all of its crude on the open market and is therefore exposed to sharp price rises. The way to do that is to invest in exploration and development in countries that have oil fields but lack the capital or technology to exploit them. Once Chinese companies have a stake in oil coming out of the ground, even if it originates abroad, they'll have secured long-term supplies independent of the world's fickle prices. The process of overseas exploration began in 1997, when Premier Li Peng encouraged state-run oil concerns...
...nuclear program in a country under sanctions, such as Iran." Europe really doesn't have much to offer Tehran for good behavior. Most European countries are trading with Iran already, evidenced by last month's reported €3.25 billion agreement by Spanish and Anglo-Dutch oil concerns to exploit Iran's natural gas reserves. Saeed Laylaz, a reformist analyst in Tehran, says only an end to U.S. sanctions and admission to the World Trade Organization might tempt the regime - something the U.S. is unlikely to support. Without a breakthrough, it's likely the IAEA will refer Iran next month...
...support this work. I also want to promote culture. There is a very strong link between culture and conservation. If our people had a reverence for the mountains that our forefathers had, they would not be raping that mountain. Instead, we view that mountain as a resource to exploit rather than as something to appreciate because it gave us water and wood. YOU'VE SAID AIDS IS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON MANUFACTURED BY THE DEVELOPING WORLD TO WIPE OUT THE BLACK RACE. do you still believe that? I have no idea who created aids and whether it is a biological agent...
...pension managers are feeling the heat and turning to so-called alternative investments, like hedge funds, in search of better returns. Most hedge funds try to exploit temporary price discrepancies between, say, a barrel of oil and stocks of oil producers, making money as prices fall back in synch--even if the overall markets are sinking. It's a fairly conservative approach--until a hedge-fund manager attempts to multiply profits by borrowing many times over the amount of assets in the fund. Such borrowing is legal, and even expected, but since Long-Term Capital's meltdown, the Federal Reserve...
...hedge funds are showered with new money, they end up seeking to exploit the same opportunities, and returns that once routinely hit double-digits naturally fall. It's happening now. Some $80 billion flowed into hedge funds this year through August, and the average hedge fund rose about a woeful 1%. The hedgies are under pressure to pump up returns to justify their steep fees--which run to 2% of assets plus 20% of profits. The SEC's primary concern is fraud, in which a hedge fund hides losses or misstates the value of its holdings. Worse, says Donaldson...