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Oil below $30 fans wipeout fears among U.S. shale survival artists

By Terry Wade and Anna Driver YORKTOWN, Texas (Reuters) – Across oil fields from Texas to North Dakota fears are growing that crude's plunge below $30 a barrel is more than just another market milestone and marks a countdown to an endgame for many shale producers that so far have braved the 18-month downturn. Oil prices tumbled by more than a fifth this month to 12-year lows 70 percent below mid-2014 levels and…

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Airlines to enjoy low fuel in 2016, costs under spotlight

By Victoria Bryan and Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) – Airlines can look forward to continuing low oil prices for at least this year, helping to boost profits and drive demand for travel, but need to be wary …

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Taxi drivers in Hungary demand Uber to be shut down

Taxi drivers in Hungary's capital demonstrated on Monday against ride-hailing service Uber, whose growing popularity they find unpalatable amid new regulations setting a fixed tariff for traditional taxi firms that is higher than Uber's. Taxis blocked a major road crossing in central Budapest and drove around in city streets blocking much of the road traffic in the capital's center. Uber …

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Two medical colleagues duel over Sumner Redstone’s mental fitness

Doctors Stephen Read and James Spar are collaborators on a chapter of a forthcoming psychiatry textbook, colleagues at UCLA’s medical school and go-to court experts on the evaluation of mental fitness in the elderly. In the 2014 fight over whether owner Donald Sterling was fit to decide the fate of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, the two psychiatrists agreed

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OPEC sees oil market rebalancing in 2016, but Iran to counter non-OPEC decline

OPEC forecast on Monday that oil supply from non-member countries will post a larger-than-expected decline this year due to the collapse in prices, boosting the need for crude from the producer group. Supply outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would decline by 660,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, led by the United States, OPEC said in a

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Oil slumps below $28 to 2003 low as Iran sanctions lifted

Oil prices slumped to a 2003 low below $28 per barrel on Monday as the market anticipated a rise in Iranian exports after the lifting of sanctions against Tehran over the weekend. Responding to Tehran's compliance with a nuclear deal, the …

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Iraq’s southern oil exports running at 3.3 million bpd, unaffected by clashes

Iraq's exports from its southern region have been running at an average daily rate of 3.297 million barrels per day (bpd) so far this month, higher than December's average and unaffected by tribal clashes, an oil company executive said on Saturday.All the fields are running normally, state-run South Oil Co.'s deputy director general Salah Mahdi told Reuters in an interview in Basra. “The security situation is very good, I don't see any impact on our oil operations,” he …

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As world markets drop, Fed officials try to shake it off

SOMERSET, N.J./SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – As U.S. stock indexes dropped in volatile trading and oil crashed below $30 a barrel on Friday, Federal Reserve officials stuck to a well-worn script: day-to-day financial market swings do not drive monetary policy. At the same time…

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China’s economy grew by around 7 percent in 2015, services made up half of GDP – Premier

China's gross domestic product (GDP) totaled more than $10 trillion in 2015 and the economy grew by around 7 percent, with the services sector accounting for half of GDP, Premier Li

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Citigroup, Wells Fargo gird for loan losses as oil price dives

Wells Fargo & Co raised provisions against soured assets by more than 70 percent, nearly half of them for oil and gas loans, to ensure it is covered should prices stay at current levels for the rest of the year. The San Francisco-based bank, a major lender to the U.S. energy industry, said it and other banks were talking to borrowers, including production companies and oil services firms, about how to navigate the crunch. Citigroup Inc set aside $250 million to cover losses related to its energy portfolio …

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