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Oil prices move higher following bullish inventory report, Iranian missile test

Posted Dec 16th 2009 4:45PM by Michael Fowlkes (RSS feed)
Filed under: Major Movement, International Markets, Middle East, Oil, Eastern Europe

Oil prices have been on the rise today, following a government report that showed inventories fell more than expected last week.

Going into today's inventory report, analysts had been expecting to hear that oil inventories shrank by around 2 million barrels last week, but according the the Department of Energy the actual draw was much steeper at 3.7 million barrels.

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Russian casinos go bust -- gamblers head elsewhere

Posted Jul 6th 2009 3:00PM by Beth Gaston Moon (RSS feed)
Filed under: Russia, Employees, Recession

Thanks a lot, Vladimir Putin. The former Russian president (now prime minister) signed an anti-vice law in 2006 that has led to the closure of most casinos in the struggling nation. This move quickly killed more than 400,000 jobs as of July 1 in a country already in the throes of an economic crisis. More than 40,000 casino workers were impacted in Moscow alone, which was home to 30 major casinos and 500 smaller operations.