Half of Alexander's practice is devoted to oil and gas securities fraud cases.
The elder Mr. Buttaccio, 58, worked in the oil industry, according to a securities filing by a company that listed him as treasurer.
In fact, Pareto Securities found that Chinese implied oil demand came in at an all-time high of 9.8 million barrels per day in September.
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Among 10 oil-pipeline MLPs tracked by Wunderlich Securities as of Aug. 4, seven are up 29% to 41% in the past year, and another two are up 20% or more.
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Phil Miller, an analyst at Strategic International Securities Research, also noted that falling oil prices--a byproduct of the weakening economy--have also been a factor.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Panalpina bribed customs officials in Nigeria and other countries and has requested documents from the oil service companies and Royal Dutch Shell, according to securities filings.
Frank's legislation would require mandatory reporting by companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. oil industry thinks this goes too far.
Nationwide, there were 260 oil-and-gas-related alleged ruses logged by the North American Securities Administrators Association between 2005 and 2007.
Through Thursday and Friday, oil traders were already covering their shorts, according to Andrey Kryuchenkov of VTB Securities, putting upward pressure on prices.
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Reijtenbagh practiced as a general practitioner and cardiologist in the Netherlands from 1975 to 1990, according to Securities and Exchange filings made by Big Sky Energy, a company exploring for oil in Kazakhstan that named Reijtenbagh as a director in 2005.
Two days after the oil firm's IPO, the Commission on International Religious Freedom sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the body that vets stock listings, asking the SEC to investigate the "accuracy and adequacy" of Sinopec's filing.
Meyer, a securities arbitrator in Florida and publisher of the contrarian Straight Money Analysis newsletter, said that oil demand is dependent on emerging Asia.
That is reflected in share prices: over the past year, the worst performing sectors, from the bottom up, have been securities firms, shipping, construction, paper, steel, mining, warehousing, airlines, oil companies and banks.
Dempsey returned to Denver in 1983 to practice law, joining the board of Royal Resources, a public oil-exploration company run by a trout-fishing buddy who had been assigned by a court to clean up securities fraud.
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