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...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...Nymex’s owner, CME Group of Chicago, says it will close down its New York commodities trading floor, the last of its kind in a city once full of them, after all but 0.3 per cent of its energy and metals...
...Alon USA Energy said its 80,000 barrel-per-day refinery in the path of the spillway flow will be protected by emergency levees. “The gasoline market pulled this complex higher up until a week ago....
...In the energy market, Nymex October West Texas Intermediate oil was unchanged at $68.05 a barrel, while ICE October Brent dropped 7 cents to $67.66 a barrel....
...The data published by the CFTC reveal for the first time positions of speculators and other market participants on the West Texas Intermediate oil market at the New York Mercantile Exchange and the London-based...
...Gannett, the largest US newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, rose 17.6 per cent to $11.74 after forecasting third-quarter earnings above expectations....
...Oil prices fell below the $70 a barrel level for the first time in more than a year, with US oil futures hitting an intraday low of $68.57 a barrel, after the US Department of Energy on Thursday reported...
...in the city in 2006....
...The act was deliberately worded this way to avoid the “Balls Clause”, which is the UK’s defence mechanism against the imposition of any US regulation on the City of London....
...The move has provoked protest from the City of London Corporation, which sees the long arm of US regulation extending across the Atlantic – over the head of the Financial Services Authority....
...The idea is to ensure that foreign markets offering contracts that mirror energy products traded on US exchanges should have the same transparency requirements as the US market....
...Carl Levin, a top Democratic senator, has called this “the London loophole”. The development could raise the spectre of US rules being extended beyond its borders, unnerving the City of London....
...John Manzoni, once seen as a successor to Lord Browne as BP chief executive, is stepping down as the UK oil group’s head of refining and marketing to become head of Talisman Energy, the Canadian oil group...
...John Manzoni, the UK oil group’s head of refining and marketing, was named on Wednesday as chief executive of Talisman Energy, based in Canada’s oil capital....
...It said temperatures in European cities would drop in the next few days. February West Texas Intermediate gained $1.10 to $53.09 a barrel in early morning trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange....
...Clearly, a flat world gives the advantage to the Rock over the Windy City.”...
...“The key will be to show that they have the domain-handling capability,” said Tom Kloet, chief operating officer of Fimat USA, one of the largest futures brokers....
...These included Exxon Mobil’s 245,000 barrel-per-day plant in Joliet, Illinois, and BP’s Texas City refinery, where two catalytic crackers were shut down last Tuesday....
...Nymex West Texas Intermediate for July delivery rose 94 cents to $54.70 a barrel by mid-afternoon in New York, while the contract for December delivery traded to a high just shy of $58....
...The Centre for Global Energy Studies, the London-based oil consultancy, said Opec will target an average price of $40 a barrel for its own basket of crude oils in 2005 to generate the revenue needed by its...
...Nymex was also evaluating the merits of launching a new crude oil contract that was specified for sour crude instead of its benchmark light sweet crude contract, West Texas Intermediate....
...Energy, using laws aimed at the threat of sabotage or terrorism....
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