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The Saudi Dilemma: To Cut Or Not To Cut

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“Even if [Brent] prices fall further to $40-$50 a barrel, immediate balance of payments strains are unlikely to emerge,” the report said, with its authors adding the Kingdom would be able to finance its trade deficit from its foreign exchange reserves “for at least a decade.”. This suggestion is not universally accepted. shale oil.

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What's Oil Got to Do With It?

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From Saturday's New York Times story " Cheney, on Carrier, Sends Warning to Iran " Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran’s coast as the backdrop yesterday to warn that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting oil routes.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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for example, has ended fuel subsidies, thereby essentially, increasing its budget revenues, while Saudi Arabia recently floated a $4-billion domestic bond offering to help finance its budget. They are fighting a multi-front war with Iran directly (in Yemen) and indirectly (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq).

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Day Of Reckoning For US Shale Will Have To Wait

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Maintaining access to finance can come at a price. Bond markets have essentially been ruled out as a new source of finance for high-yield producers. Also, although there was a lot of speculation about Iran’s ability to return some capacity to the market, such an outcome appears more and more likely.

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Opinion: Oil Megaprojects Won’t Stay On The Shelf For Long

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Maintaining access to finance can come at a price. Bond markets have essentially been ruled out as a new source of finance for high-yield producers. Also, although there was a lot of speculation about Iran’s ability to return some capacity to the market, such an outcome appears more and more likely.

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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For Iran, the only other OPEC country for which the IEA provides domestic demand data, the increase in exports, 0.7 in Russian and Soviet history, Soviet economics, and International economics, and MBA in finance and marketing. percentage points. percent, matched the increased domestic output.

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Polestar delivers brand’s first EVs not made in China

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In addition to more stringent sourcing requirements, new “foreign entity of concern” language disqualifies subsidiary companies if a “parent entity” in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea holds more than 50% in the company. Building cars in the U.S. does at least avoid recently-hiked tariffs on Chinese EVs.