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• IEA blames falling stock levels for $100 oil

  - 2008-01-16

  PARIS AFP — The International Energy Agency attributed recent record oil prices above 100 dollars per barrel to tensions in the market caused by falling stock levels in top consuming countries. "The most recent rise would appear the easiest to explain: OECD stocks have been falling since July 2007,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Investment, OECD, stock

• Growth Prospects in China and India Compared

  - 2007-01-01

  Abstract This paper compares the growth prospects of China and India through a growth accounting analysis. Consistent time series for capital stock and employment are constructed using available survey data, and recent revisions to the national accounts for both countries are incorporated. The results allow for a discussion of the...

  Tags: China, FINANCE, income, India, Investment, MARKETING, OECD, PRODUCTIVITY, stock, survey, Working

• IEA: Decrease in Gasoline Prices, High Stocks Pulling Oil Prices Down

  - 2006-09-13

  Gasoline futures prices in the U.S. have dropped 30% since early August as U.S. gasoline stocks have reached five-year highs and the U.S. gasoline market has successfully completed its switch from MTBE to ethanol in blending of reformulated gasoline. The decline in gasoline prices has pulled crude prices down 6-18%,...

  Tags: FINANCE, International Energy Agency, Investment, OECD, stock, U.S.

• IEA: OECD Crude Stocks Reach Highest Level in 20 Years

  - 2006-06-21

  The crude oil stock level for OECD countries reached its highest level in 20 years, the International Energy Agency IEA said recently in its latest Oil Market Report.The crude oil stock level for OECD countries reached its highest level in 20 years, the International Energy Agency IEA said recently in...

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• FINLAND: Stock market woes raise doubts over size of ECB interest rate rise; activity data still point to favourable economic outlook, inflation up but still only 1.3%

  - 2006-06-05

  Both hard economic data and confidence surveys over the past month point to a bright medium-term outlook for the economy, an outlook only slightly blighted by the prospect that the ECB is poised raise interest rates further at its June meeting. The likelihood of this remains high, although the turmoil...

  Tags: FINANCE, inflation, Investment, OECD, stock, unemployment

• Turbulent stock markets show investors 'pricing risk': OECD

  - 2006-05-23

  PARIS AFP — Turbulence on global stock markets in the past week should not be a source of worry and may simply indicate that investors are beginning to take better account of risks for the global economy, the chief economist of the OECD warned. "We start from a very...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, economist, FINANCE, Investment, investor, OECD, stock

• New estimates of government net capital stocks for 22 OECD countries, 1960-2001.(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

  - 2006-04-01

  The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. In his seminal contributions, Aschauer (1989a, 1989b) found large positive output effects of government capital in the United States. His results suggested that government capital was even more productive than...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, OECD, stock

• Capital Stocks, Capital Services And Multi-Factor Productivity Measures

  BNET - 2005-12-06

  Measures of productivity are central to the assessment of economic growth. Measures of multi-factor total factor productivity or of capital productivity rely on the availability of statistical series on the prices and quantities of capital services that enter the production process. Unfortunately, to date only a small number of countries...

  Tags: OECD, Stock, Productivity, Investment, Finance

• Oil price set to rise in world of uncertainty: IEA

  - 2005-07-13

  PARIS AFP — High oil prices are here to stay in a world of uncertainty over tropical storms and geopolitical factors such as the London bombings, the International Energy Agency IAE warned. But the IEA revised down its estimate of 2005 global oil demand to 83.88 million barrels per...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, agency, barrel, FINANCE, Investment, London, MARKETING, OECD, stock

• OECD fails to deliver stock option certainty.(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-04-18

  Apr 18, 2005 (International Tax Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Apr 18, 2005 (International Tax Review - ABIX via COMTEX)

  Tags: OECD, stock, stock option