EIA: US crude stockpiles up less than expected
Crude oil prices varied during the session Wednesday after the US Energy Information Administration said that oil inventories were up 1.4 million barrels last week to 343 million barrels, not as much as the 2.1 million barrel gain which had been expected. Prices rose and fell and by afternoon trade in New York April contracts for
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Dressing with Intention

You just got called to speak in front of your biggest audience yet … are you ready to run and hide because you don’t have a clue what you will wear? Watch as Laurie talks about finding your authentic style using her favorite style system Fashion Feng Shui®. Related posts: Are You Dressing with Intention? Five Tips for Dressing the … Read More
Business Opportunities and Ideas Has Moved!

I’m pleased to announce that the Business Opportunities and Ideas blog has moved from www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk to: www.businessopportunitiesandideas.com If you have the site bookmarked or you link to it, please update your links. Everything should work exactly as before, all usernames and passwords for the blog and forums remain the same and should still work. However as with any move of … Read More
Life After Growth–Managing our Way to a Desirable Future
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. It is a shortened version of a longer post published by the Post Carbon Institute. What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. … Read More
Drumbeat: March 10, 2010
Oil King Warns Of ‘Green Bubble’ It’s Ghawar that is of utmost interest to the industry. The biggest oilfield ever found, it has been producing for five decades, often putting out more than 5 million bpd, a level that Aramco has been able to maintain by injecting millions of barrels a day of water into the field to push up … Read More
Facebook to Add Location Data, Encourage Epic Levels of Oversharing

According to The New York Times , Facebook is set to introduce location sharing into their arsenal of social networking tricks this April at the F8 conference. I predict that 98% of my Facebook updates will read “My bedroom.” This is unconfirmed, but according to trusted sources, Facebook has been developing this location-based feature in-house for awhile now, tinkering until … Read More
Google Aims at Small Business Software Market, With Cloud-Connected Apps Store

Google’s up to its old tricks again , extending software tentacles in new directions to capture or subvert entire markets: This time it’s aiming at business software by launching Google Apps Marketplace, which does clever cloud-connecting stuff. Digging through Google’s slightly obfuscating explanation in its blog post on the news, it seems that the App Marketplace has been conceived to … Read More
Marketing Your Business With Promotional Products

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Gagandeep Singh, who works for Fortepromo. It creates high quality promotional products that help businesses to promote their brands. Are you a frustrated business owner who is looking for an effective way to attract your customers’ attention and promote your brand? This article tells you how you can promote your brand and attract new … Read More
Becoming a Globally Advantaged Company

Step aside BEMs (big emerging markets) , and instead, let’s take a look at RDEs (rapidly developing economies) — an important growth engine for many multinationals. Is there a difference between BEMS and RDEs? In my due diligence for this post, I discovered BusinessWeek’s article, ” In Recession, Focus on Emerging Markets ,” and I’m still unclear as to which … Read More