• Oil prices: What is behind the drop? Simple economics

      14/01/2015
    The oil industry, with its history of booms and busts, appears to be in
    the early stages of its latest downturn. The price of oil has plunged
    more than 55 per cent to under $50 a barrel since June.  
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  • 5 reasons copper prices are falling

      14/01/2015
    Oil prices are not considered by
    many analysts as a gauge of economic activity on account of cartels
    which have at times overruled forces of supply a demand. Copper is given
    a higher weightage to oil to gauge economic activity globally.  
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  • Oil prices plunge again as UAE defends holding production

      13/01/2015
    (Reuters) - Oil prices continued their rout on Tuesday with Brent crude
    and U.S. WTI both falling to their lowest in almost six years as a big
    OPEC producer stood by the group's decision not to cut output to tackle a
    glut in the market.  
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  • Vietnam’s economy eyes many risks

      13/01/2015
    Although showing signs of recovery through Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
    Growth rate, Vietnam’s economy was still facing a lot of risks, said
    head of Vietnam Institute of Economics Tran Dinh Thien in Ho Chi Minh
    City yesterday.  
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  • Dollar rates fall in most commercial banks

      12/01/2015
    The US dollar rates fell in the local commercial banks yesterday, two
    days after the State Bank of Viet Nam weakened the Vietnamese dong by 1
    per cent.  
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