Petrochemicals prices climb 2% in December on tight supplies LONDON‚ January 9‚ 2013 - Prices in the $3-trillion-plus global petrochemicals market climbed 2% to $1‚350 per metric ton (/mt) in December‚ according to the just-released monthly average of the Platts Global Petrochemical Index (PGPI)‚ a benchmark basket of seven widely used petrochemicals. This follows a drop of 2% in November. But on a year-over-year basis‚ petrochemical prices were up 16% from the December 2011 average price of $1‚161/mt
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Impact of Cashless Economy in Nigeria By Omotunde M. Sunday T. John-Dewole A.T. Greener Journal of Internet‚ Information and Communication Systems Vol. 1 (2)‚ pp. 040-043‚ April 2013. Research Article Impact of Cashless Economy in Nigeria *Omotunde Muyiwa1‚ Sunday Tunmibi‚1 and John-Dewole A.T.2 1 School of Computer Science‚ Mathematics and Information Technology‚ Houdegbe North American University‚ Republic of Benin. 2 Department of Computer Science with Electronics
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DISCUSSION 1(Week 2)-----Describe Cultural Attitudes toward and presumptions about whether a person can own words and knowledge……….. Answers- Cultural attitude can be termed as the traditional ethic that governs a people in a certain community .The world is diversified a person as an individual is open to understanding ‚ perceiving and also be interpreted differently. For instance a novel can be read by two different people of the same age group and educational qualification but the knowledge
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The Rise and fall of Oil and Gas Prices 12/13/09 The U.S Benchmark sets the oil prices depending on the supply and demand. Gas and oil prices are rising and falling so much because of the number of investors‚ and the demand among the American people. The U.S. Benchmark sets the oil prices according to the supply and demand for oil‚ in a little town call Cushing‚ Oklahoma. The demand for oil this year had plunged twenty [Express numbers higher than nine in digits (when not
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Background Oil spills are horrible they damage the environment and may destroy ecosystems. This question has puzzled most scientists and elementary grade kids for a long time : What’s the best way to remove oil from water? Lets bump it up to using Marvel Mystery oil ‚which is a Motor oil brand‚ so we have a nice bright red color. There are 3 main ways to separate oil from water and 3 absorbents that can be used
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Being a Leader Final Project (Part 2 Template) 1 A Study of Shell Oil and its Stakeholders in Nigeria Part 2 (Week Nine) A review of basic issues regarding the Background and Interests of Stakeholders of Shell Oil Company in Nigeria John K. Student 67338840 Being a Leader Final Project (Part 2 Template) 2 Chapter 1 Introduction You may add sub-titles (usually on the left margin) to address each of these three categories as you prefer. There is no rule about
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The Effects of Oil Spill After the oil spilled over‚ did people’s life change? For sure‚ it affects a lot to human’s lives. However‚ what are those effects? Three major places which are affected by oil spill are business marketing‚ people’s health‚ and environment. The first effect is the economic effect. The tourist season was killed because of the oil spill. The ocean which is full of oil is very unclear‚ and nobody wants to have a vacation at a place like this. The killed tourist season is
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INTRODUCTION: The balance of payment has been an important indicator of the growing economic activities in all countries. The purpose of this essay is to discuss factors that causes Balance of payment problems that are encountered by developing and emerging economies. This essay starts off with an introduction of the definition of B.O.P and the overview of its components. This is followed by an insight into the approaches used to explain deficits from the current account of the B.O.P. Furthermore
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Introduction The US Balance of Payments (BOP) deficit is largely attributable to its massive current account deficit. The US has had a massive current account deficit since 1991‚ hitting an all time high of US$800 billion in 2005. "Never in the history of modern economics has a large industrial country run persistent current account deficits of the magnitude posted by the United States since 2000" (Edwards‚ 2005‚ p. 260). Accumulating consistent current account deficits mean that foreign countries
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Lower Oil Prices - Not a Good Sign! Posted by Gail the Actuary on July 5‚ 2012 - 9:58am Topic: Economics/Finance Tags: debt default‚ default‚ high oil price‚ low oil price‚ oil prices‚ recession [list all tags] Are lower oil prices good news? Not really‚ if it means the world is sinking into recession. We know from recent past experience and from common sense that higher oil prices are a drag on oil importing economies‚ because if more $$$ are spent on the same amount of oil‚ there is less to
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