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Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel

31 Dec 2010
Posted by loner

 By CHARLES LEVINSON And GUY CHAZAN

TEL AVIV—Two years ago, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, an energy firm here, employed five people and was worth about half a million dollars.
Operations in Noble Energy's Leviathan gas field, the world's biggest deepwater gas find in a decade.
Today it sits at the center of a gas bonanza that has investors, international oil companies, Israeli politicians and even Hezbollah, Israel's sworn enemy, clamoring for a piece of the action.
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Andrew J. Hall: the British eccentric who made a killing on Wall Street

26 Jul 2009
Posted by loner

Every once in a while, says New York magazine, there appears a character who floats above “the wretched, amoral, meatheads” of Wall Street. Andrew J Hall is such a man.

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Markets volatile with index funds influence, bio-fuel requirements

13 Mar 2008
Posted by loner

http://deltafarmpress.com/corn/market-influence-0305/

Very few are aware one of the biggest issues impacting U.S. agriculture are index funds.

“There are two commodity funds. Regular funds can be both long and short. In 2002, those had about USD51 billion in. By last September, the most recent data, that number had risen to about USD185 billion.”

The real issue, though, is with index funds. “The granddaddy of them is the Goldman and Sachs Index Fund. Our last estimate was it had USD103 billion.”

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Miller puts his millions to work | FT

27 May 2003
Posted by loner

Robert Miller is betting that the adage "money attracts money" is a truism when he broadens the scope of his personal investment company to try to increase the fortunes of other very high net worth individuals.

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