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James Lockhart-Smith, senior Latin American analyst at Maplecroft, discusses Latin America inflation levels, the coming elections in Venezuela where he expects the government candidate to win and Argentina's failure to repay bondholders.
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The Saudi's investment in a Texas refinery's expansion is meant to ensure that it will retain an important market for its crude in the United States at a time when American politicians intend to wean the country off imported oil, The New York Times reports.
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LONDON, April 4- The International Energy Agency will invite China and other emerging economies to take part in key strategic talks, sources in the IEA said, in a bid to strengthen ties with non-members whose share in global oil demand has rapidly grown.
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HOUSTON-- Energy company Harvest Natural Resources Inc. says it will need to restate some financial results published between 2010 and 2012..
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CARACAS, April 3- Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles square off in an April 14 vote to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez. *Maduro entered politics in 2000 as a legislator in the National Assembly, where his combative defense of Chavez's policies made him one of the president's proteges.
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JERUSALEM- Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November.
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UNITED NATIONS- The 193- nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the first treaty on the global arms trade, which seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers.
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CALGARY, Alberta, April 2- Two high-profile oil spills won't stem the now-record flow of Canadian oil into the United States, despite the frenzy that the spills triggered among friends and foes of the Keystone XL pipeline to the main U.S. refineries.
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BERLIN- Buoyed by solid finances, roaring exports and low unemployment, Germany increasingly sees itself as the only grown-up in Europe, responsible for bringing wayward children into line to hold the family together.
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James Lockhart-Smith, senior Latin American analyst at Maplecroft, discusses Latin America inflation levels, the coming elections in Venezuela where he expects the government candidate to win and Argentina's failure to repay bondholders.
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NEW YORK-- Schlumberger Ltd., the world's biggest oilfield service company, said it is working out a new payment agreement with PDVSA, Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company. Kibsgaard made the remarks at a speech at the Howard Well Conference in New Orleans, a transcription of which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18.
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NEW YORK, March 31- Oil services giant Schlumberger Ltd has improved its ability to collect the money it is owed by Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA and will now be able to recognize all revenue associated with its first-quarter operations in the country, Schlumberger's CEO said on Sunday.
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OTTAWA, Ontario-- Canada defended its decision to pull out of a United Nations convention that fights the spread of droughts just a month before a major gathering would have forced the country to confront scientific analysis on the effects of climate change. Canada is the only country in the world outside the agreement.
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*Total and Suncor re-evaluating Fort Hills, Joslyn projects.
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March 26- The Federal Reserve has ordered Citigroup Inc to better police for the risk of money laundering, part of a broad U.S. regulatory crackdown on the potential for illicit money flows.
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CARACAS, March 22- Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's 2012 revenue slipped 0.2 percent from the year before despite an increase in oil prices as the company sold more fuel on the subsidized domestic market, the oil minister said Friday.
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CARACAS, March 22-- Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's 2012 revenue slipped 0.2 percent compared with a year ago to $124.5 billion, while profit fell 6.1 percent to $4.2 billion, the OPEC country's oil minister said on Friday.
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MOSCOW, March 22- Here are events and news stories that could move Russian markets on Friday. MOSCOW- Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Russia that is his first foreign trip since becoming president;. MOSCOW- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to meet Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev;.
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* "Maduro win would be best"- Brazil's foreign trade lobby. Over the past decade, Brazil's exports to Venezuela soared by 533 percent to some $5 billion, making it Brazil's second largest market in Latin America after Argentina, both major buyers of Brazilian manufactured goods. Economists say Brazil's investments in Venezuela are around $20 billion.
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CARACAS, March 19- Venezuela vowed on Tuesday to provide more dollars to importers through a new foreign exchange system, but officials gave only vague details of how it will work and skirted around key issues including what the rate would be.
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*Cyprus expected to reject on bank deposits levy on Tuesday. LONDON, March 19- Brent crude oil fell on Tuesday, trading below $109 a barrel as uncertainty over a bailout for Cyprus intensified concerns about the euro zone debt crisis and about energy demand in the event the economic picture darkens.