It had millions of tonnes in reserves but the coal was not of the highest quality.
If every euro printed were held in reserves by banks, the banks would no longer be intermediating.
In Oman Shell overbooked 250 million barrels of oil equivalent in reserves it expected to find in expansions of existing fields.
It has rising rates of child malnutrition and alarming declines in reserves of its two main resources, oil and water.
If money is not circulating, but is stashed in reserves or under mattresses, it cannot boost spending or push up inflation.
The drop in reserves was such an unfamiliar twist in the data that Reuters initially reported it with the wrong sign.
It also lowered the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserves in an attempt to boost lending in the country.
Experts estimate that in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, where oil exploration is mostly banned, there are more than 85 billion barrels in reserves.
The report says nature conservation itself will need to change, concentrating more on wildlife management in the wider countryside and not just in reserves.
The increase in reserves, he argues, partly reflects speculative capital inflows.
Thus the bank is holding only a fraction of deposits in reserves and is lending out the rest: fractional reserve banking which is what we call the system.
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While an increase in reserves of 2.4% seems low for a year, virtually all the increase is recent, which means it was even lower for most of the year.
Last month, India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserves in a bid to boost lending.
They have at least 74.2 billion barrels of crude oil in reserves alone, according to the CIA World Fact Book, more than the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and China combined.
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Yes, the balance of power at the G-20 summit shifted toward Russia, Brazil and its hundreds of billions in reserves, Saudi Arabia, and a rich though still economically stagnant Japan.
With 6.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves--behind France's Total, with 11.1 billion, and ExxonMobil, with 13.6 billion--Eni is struggling to stay in the top tier of international oil companies.
Barbassa is confident that Petrobras will become the largest company, both in reserves and in terms of production, taking its current 2.57 million barrels of daily output to 6.4 million by 2020.
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The monetary base is potential money, potential high-powered money, but as long as its growth is primarily in reserves on deposit by the banking system at the Fed it is not yet money.
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Former Conservative councillor Rod Reed - now an independent local campaigner - said the council could save money instead by cutting the number of senior officers and using millions of pounds in reserves.
With 6.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves--behind France's Total, with 11.1 billion, and ExxonMobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ), with 13.6 billion--Eni is struggling to stay in the top tier of international oil companies.
Royal Dutch Shell also reported declines in their fourth quarter profits, and blamed lighter European demand, lower natural gas production (Exxon) along with a high demand for equipment and skilled workers and the difficulties involved in tapping reserves in politically unstable regions (Shell).
The desired outcomes of the meeting are to identify the most significant issues involved with mining in or near biosphere reserves and to begin the process of establishing guidelines for mining in biosphere reserves.
MEPs want banks to hold more money in their reserves, in order to stop them going bust through reckless lending.
They carry real book value in terms of reserves in the ground properly discounted over time.
Meanwhile Gillingham striker Mark McCammon and winger Albert Jarrett played 70 minutes in for the reserves in the 2-2 draw with Aldershot.
So the tungsten, tantalum, iron, whatever, that is in current reserves will indeed be gone in a generation.
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He joined the Army after attending the University of Texas and still held a major's commission in the reserves when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, sparking the Persian Gulf war.
This drove it underground, pushing up prices and spawning international crime syndicates ready to snap it up wherever it could be found, whether in game reserves, museums or even as trophies in private homes.
Taking into consideration the complexity of museum-reserves and their role in the development of cultural and ecological tourism, during the Thematic Regional Training the following issues were discussed: improvement of cooperation forms between museum-reserves in CIS countries, effective use of museum-reserves and the role of museum-reserves as factors of regional economic development.
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