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Mercedes CEO Says Brand Sticking With China for the Long Haul

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& "The major players in the global economy, Europe, the U.S. With the global situation looking increasingly hectic and economies in varying degrees of disarray, there are a lot of questions about the future landscape of business. Often presented as a trade organization, it’s effectively a stop gap for U.S. influence.&

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Opinion: Uranium Prices Set To Double By 2018

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As Scientific American opines , “Nuclear energy’s clean bona fides may be its saving grace in a wobbling global energy market that is trying to balance climate change ambitions, skittish economies and low prices for oil and natural gas.”. According to Bloomberg, in Asia alone, approximately $800 billion in new reactors are being developed.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. So as incomes rise—especially in the emerging economies—the size of the global car fleet will inevitably rise in the long term.

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