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Comment on Some battery makers in China to be forced to cut or halt production due to lack of orders, says TrendForce by DORAMAS

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Prices of lithium arent falling because there is no demand. All the mines in iran and Afghanistan going online what else would anyone expect. Because prices will be low for commodities and batteries, the ev industry will bring more buyers. Demand is surging, its the supply side that is skyrocketing.

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Strong Dollar Could Cap Oil Prices

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dollar poses an obstacle to further gains in oil prices. As Reuters points out , in dollar terms the price of Brent oil has climbed 9 percent this year, but in yuan terms oil is now nearly 14 percent more expensive. The problem for many emerging markets is that oil prices have been going up at the same time.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ).

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Opinion: How Much Longer Can OPEC Hold Out?

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However, OPEC has been in the line of fire from the western world in light of its stance of not reducing the production levels of its member nations (excluding Iran). With the decline of average annual crude prices, OPEC earned around $730 billion in net oil export revenues in 2014 (Source: EIA), a big decline of 11% from its previous year.

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The Saudi Dilemma: To Cut Or Not To Cut

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To cut and push up prices or not to cut and preserve market share, this is the question that Saudi Arabia is facing ahead of this year’s December OPEC meeting. million barrels daily, including from Russia, to reverse the free fall of oil prices. Saudi Arabia cannot afford another slump in oil prices,” he warns. “It Kemp agrees.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. The Saudis obviously miscalculated the degree to which their shift would negatively impact oil prices.

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IEA: global map of oil refining and trade to be redrawn over next 5 years

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On each and every front— technology, geopolitics, the economy— potentially game-changing developments are taking place. Demand from non-OECD economies is forecast to overtake that in the OECD as early as 2014. The oil market is at a crossroads.

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