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Other industries, such as those for oil or paper, are also bioprospecting the deep sea with promising results.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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Anyone owning Windsor I or any value fund with major holdings in metals, paper, petrochemicals and oil should pray for a strong commodities market.
FORBES: The Wal-Mart of mutual funds
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However, the authors of the DHI's academic paper say the independence debate is "an unwelcome note of uncertainty for the oil and gas industry", at a time when it thinks it has finally got an understanding in Whitehall of the need for tax and regulatory predictability.
BBC: Scottish independence: energy's alternating currents
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The white paper seeks to counter Western views that much of its aid goes to feed its appetite for oil and minerals.
ECONOMIST: Big developing countries are shaking up the world of aid
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It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.
ECONOMIST: When the smoke clears in Asia
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Until 1968, only the federal government could own uranium in the U.S. Although investors still cannot physically possess uranium and there is no formal exchange for the metal, as there is for gold, oil and copper, they can legally own it, if only on paper.
FORBES: Uranium Market Glowing Green
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For example, a recent paper by Jim Hamilton and one of his students indicates that risk premiums in the crude oil futures market may have been driven down by the forces of financialization.
FORBES: Increased Futures Speculation Did Not Increase Food or Energy Prices
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Among contenders for the top spot offshore is OIL, which has benefited from an Asian fondness for companies from the British Virgin Islands (on paper the second-largest investor in China in 2010, after Hong Kong).
ECONOMIST: Company formation