Oil: A
risky investment ? (Recommendation)
Oil
companies and oil producing countries will face a tough 2014. Oil extraction
has become more and more expensive. The shale gas industry is financed with a
huge amount of debt, part of which is off balance sheet. For example, shale gas
companies use VPP’s (Volumetric Production Payments) to mislead their
investors. VPP’s are payments that are structured payments on future oil and
gas deliveries. In a VPP contract an investor in an oil or gas company receives
a given amount of the oil of gas produced during a fixed period of time.102 In
accounting terms a VPP is treated as a non-operating asset, similar to a
royalty payment. Oil extracting companies will face serious problems due to...
U.S. Adds
74,000 Jobs as Hiring Slows Sharply
U.S. job
growth slowed sharply in December amid unusually cold weather, closing out the
year on a weak note and potentially dousing the Federal Reserve's enthusiasm
about the recovery as it winds down its bond-buying program...
Fed tapered
as it saw QE benefits slip over time
Federal
Reserve officials agreed in December to begin winding down their asset-purchase
program as most believed that the benefits of the controversial policy were
eroding as time passed, according to minutes from their last meeting released
Wednesday...
Le Canada
accusé de détruire son patrimoine scientifique
L'argument
budgétaire ne convainc pas la communauté scientifique. « Stephen Harper a fondé
toute sa politique économique sur les sables bitumineux de l'Alberta, dont
l'exploitation est désastreuse pour l'environnement : le gouvernement n'a
d'autre choix que mentir pour cacher ce désastre,
Congress
introduces Obama fast-track authority on global trade pacts like TPP
Congressional
leaders on the US trade policy have introduced legislation that would grant
President Barack Obama “fast-track authority” to enact three looming global
trade accords, including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership...
China
outstrips US as world's biggest goods trader
China's
annual trade in goods topped $4 trillion for the first time last year,
surpassing the U.S. as the world's largest trader...
Debt-struck
eurozone makes dramatic turnaround
After years
of budget cuts and tough reforms to curb soaring debt -- which unleashed mass
protests -- fresh hope for economic recovery in Portugal, Spain, Ireland and
Italy appeared to have won over buyers on the bond market...
Europe’s
disinflation isn’t a worry: Eurogroup President
"If
you strengthen your competitiveness, if you manage to bring back the cost of
labor – and a number of Eurozone countries are doing exactly that at the moment
– it inevitably leads to a lower inflation," Dijsselbloem said...
Korea keeps
watch on won volatility
The
volatility of the won, coupled with the U.S. central bank’s move to taper its
stimulus measures is sending alarm singals to Korean policymakers and currency
authorities...
Korea Herald
Bourse : pourquoi les petites valeurs font une nouvelle fois
mieux que les grandes
C’est la 11e année sur 14, depuis 2000, que les PME et ETI
(entreprises de taille intermédiaire) font mieux que leurs grandes soeurs. Et
nombre de spécialistes s’attendent à une poursuite de cette tendance en 2014...
Billionaires
Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why
Despite the
6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires
are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
UK has
fewer doctors per person than Bulgaria and Estonia
The UK has
fewer working doctors per head of population than almost all other EU
countries, according to statistics branded "extremely worrying" by
unions...
Toyota's
new hydrogen car to emit only water vapor
Toyota says
it will have a range of 300 miles, can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 10
seconds, and can refuel its hydrogen tank in three to five minutes...
MSN
Syrie: la rébellion sortira-t-elle affaiblie de ses
querelles intestines?
En Syrie, les combats au sein de la rébellion ont fait plus
de 270 morts depuis vendredi dernier 3 janvier, selon un bilan de
l'Observatoire syrien des droits de l'homme (OSDH). Et ce mercredi, le quartier
général des jihadistes de l’Etat islamique en Irak et au Levant, à Alep, a été
repris par le reste des rebelles...
RFI
What’s new in Political Anticipation training? Discuss the
world crisis using the principles of Political Anticipation
For the first term in 2014, FEFAP has made its training programme
more flexible. The course’s 10 sessions can now be purchased: individually, in
a package of five sessions of one’s choice, or all 10 sessions (only the latter
leads to the award of the FEFAP/IRPA training certificate in political
anticipation). In addition, FEFAP recognises the highly interactive character
of its training courses and brings scope for discussion into the programme. The
next course is entitled: “discuss the world crisis using the specialised
principles of political anticipation-And anticipate its next stages”...
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