Nuclear arms control -- Political aspects, Petroleum industry -- International economic relations, Petroleum industry -- International trade, Petroleum industry -- Political activity, Petroleum industry -- Political aspects, Petroleum -- International trade, Petroleum -- Political aspects, and Exports -- Political aspects
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Continental Resources, EOG Resources and other U.S. shale companies that pump oil from areas of Texas and North Dakota dubbed 'Cowboyistan' could be among the biggest beneficiaries of the nuclear [...]
Petroleum industry -- Exports, Petroleum industry -- International economic relations, Petroleum industry -- Political activity, Petroleum industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Petroleum industry -- Political aspects, Bills, Legislative -- Laws, regulations and rules, Bills, Legislative -- Political aspects, Petroleum -- Exports, Petroleum -- Laws, regulations and rules, Petroleum -- Political aspects, Exports -- Laws, regulations and rules, Exports -- Political aspects, Commodity futures -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Commodity futures -- Political aspects
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Congress moved a step closer Thursday to lifting the 40-year-old crude oil export ban, and shale producers' shares rose as demand for gasoline climbed. The House Energy and [...]
6 Despite Pres. Obama's pledge 2 years ago to curb surveillance of friendly heads of state, the NSA spied on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during the Iran nuclear talks, according [...]
East-West trade (1945- ) -- Laws, regulations and rules and East-West trade (1945- ) -- Political aspects
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The biggest trade agreement since NAFTA has run into the most populist presidential campaign in memory. It's a sure bet that sparks will fly. What's not clear is when the [...]
Company financing, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs -- Political activity, Foreign investments -- International trade, Foreign investments -- Political aspects, and United States economic conditions -- Political aspects
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Thanks to Congress, foreign investment in U.S. assets could get even tougher despite the U.S. economy's large and growing appetite for outside funding. The U.S. attracted $116.8 bil [...]
President Obama and Congress are partially responsible for record policy uncertainty over the past four years that has slowed economic growth and hiring, according to new research by economists from [...]
Telecommunications equipment industry, Telecommunications services industry, Wireless voice/data service, Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. -- Political activity, Compagnie Financiere Alcatel -- Political activity, Nokia Networks -- Political activity, AT&T Inc. -- Political activity, Verizon Communications Inc. -- Political activity, Computer software industry -- Political activity, Computer software industry -- Political aspects, Telecommunications equipment industry -- Political activity, Telecommunications equipment industry -- Political aspects, Telecommunications services industry -- Political activity, Telecommunications services industry -- Political aspects, Communications industry -- Political activity, Communications industry -- Political aspects, Financial analysts -- Political activity, Financial analysts -- Political aspects, Wireless communication systems -- Services, and Wireless communication systems -- Political aspects
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Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei Technologies aims to add U.S. customers despite setbacks related to national security concerns. At the CTIA industry trade show in Orlando, Fla., last [...]
Iran leader irked by Congress Iranian Pres. Hassan Rouhani dismissed the U.S. Congress, saying the deal to suppress Iran's nuclear program in exchange for economic sanction relief was [...]
Northwest Airlines Corp., United States. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Pensions, and Airlines
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The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., the government agency that insures private pensions, already had a $23 billion deficit before the recent bankruptcies of Delta and Northwest Airlines. If [...]
Censorship issue, Microsoft Corp., Computer software industry, and Censorship
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Officials for Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco went before Congress Wednesday and defended their decisions to comply with China's laws to do business there, even though the moves allow for [...]
Small business, SOHO, Boeing Co. -- Political activity, United States. Export-Import Bank of the United States -- Political activity, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, Republican Party (United States) -- Political aspects, Aerospace industry -- International economic relations, Aerospace industry -- Political activity, Aerospace industry -- Political aspects, Banks (Finance) -- Political aspects, Political parties -- United States, Small business -- United States, and Small business -- Political aspects
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As a June 30 deadline bears down on Congress to renew the Export-Import Bank's charter, an old debate is being revived over its existence and the government's role in the [...]
Chinese companies are roiling corporate American waters with bold takeover bids. One of China's biggest oil firms made an $18.5 billion unsolicited bid on June 23 for California-based [...]
Company pricing policy, Monetary policy -- Political aspects, Interest rates -- Political aspects, and Yuan (China) -- Political aspects
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This week's U.S.-China trade talks opened with calls for action by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and a blunt warning by the head of Beijing's delegation. Paulson warned of [...]
President Bush issued his strongest threat that he will veto any Iraq War funding bill that comes out of Congress with a timetable for removing troops. Meanwhile, Democrats [...]
Consumers who worry that a trade war with China will whack low prices at Wal-Mart can relax. Relations between Washington and Beijing may get testier, even ugly in [...]
Company pricing policy, Petroleum -- Reserves, Petroleum -- Prices and rates, and Petroleum -- Political aspects
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At a time that the federal government is printing money faster than postage stamps, any dollar windfall comes as welcome news. Such is the case with the Strategic [...]
Just before Christmas, President Bush declared victory in a yearlong fight to cut $23 billion from Democratic spending plans for '08. But the two parties may be ready [...]
Just before Christmas, President Bush declared victory in a yearlong fight to cut $23 billion from Democratic spending plans for '08. But the two parties may be ready [...]
The Nov. 7 election that gave Democrats majorities in both the House and Senate put health insurance alongside the Iraq War as lead agenda items for the new Congress, which [...]
Can the Bush administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress play good cop/bad cop on trade issues involving China? Opponents of China's trade policy say something needs to be done. [...]
