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At current world oil prices hovering around $60 per barrel or less, large investments in the Venezuelan oil fields would be marginally profitable at best.
From Los Angeles Times
Tourism, once one of the island’s economic pillars, has plummeted, with hotel occupancy hovering below 30%, according to industry executives.
These productivity gains, coupled with an unemployment rate hovering at 4.6%, signal that companies are becoming leaner.
From MarketWatch
The figure was hovering around 100 billion barrels for years, doubled to 200 billion in 2011 and then jumped to 300 billion in 2013, according to data from the U.S.
From Barron's
With oil prices hovering around $50-$60 per barrel, producers are unlikely to commit significant capital to materially change global supply in the near term, Sachdeva says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
