Such breakthroughs do not end concerns over scarcity because the coming surge in global energy demand, chiefly from Asia, will be massive.
Coal, which has led the recent surge in global energy demand, will continue to be cheaper than natural gas for electricity generation.
In the 1970s, investors were caught out by a sudden surge in global inflation, and were too slow to push yields higher in response.
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Mr Osborne announced in the Budget a 1p per litre cut in fuel duty in response to a recent surge in global oil prices, effective from 1800 GMT.
That is unlikely to happen right away, but others think there could be another surge in global commodity prices this year, which the Bank of England will not able to prevent filtering into inflation.
StarMine's second best stock picker for the region believes that companies with significant business in continental Europe and North America will fare well--if they can survive the global surge in commodity prices.
Another possible explanation posits that the surge in the global discrepancy broadly coincides with both the explosion in vertically integrated businesses, where firms locate different stages of production in different countries, and the increase in China's trade.
The weak political and economic state of the European Union gives the United States an opportunity to create our second global economic surge.
At the same time, many manufacturers had built up massive factories and were counting on a huge surge in demand in the global market.
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Other banks have been similarly boosted by the surge in takeover activity on global stock markets and by the growth of private client banking for wealthy customers.
Last year venture capital godfather Kleiner Perkins, along with Tiger Global, injected a surge of optimism into the Turkish start-up scene when they invested a combined 26 million into Trendyol, one of several Turkish versions of Gilt Groupe.
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Although the surge in bank lending may temporarily cushion the impact of the global contraction on China's economy and employment, it will almost certainly lead to another surge in nonperforming loans.
There are many challenges to the development of a robust clean energy technology industry in United States, particularly as other nations move aggressively to compete for global clean energy markets and surge ahead of the U.S. on key metrics.
The global demand slump and yen's surge have wiped out earnings for Japan's tech giants.
Finally, the supply of raw materials is likely to surge in the decade ahead in response to the global resource investment boom, putting further pressure on prices.
And other commodities have also been climbing in what has been a particularly strong year, though most prices still remain well short of levels seen during the commodities surge of 2007-08 that helped precipitate the global recession.
The U.S. and, indeed, the global economy are on the verge of another surge of breathtaking innovations.
With the oil price bouncing back up again, nearly a third since spring, and with global food prices showing alarming signs of a surge, the news from SSE's Perth headquarters will not be welcome among those wrestling with Britain's economic woes.
Predictably, the nuclear disaster in Japan caused the ELEMENTS Credit Suisse Global Warming Index Exchange-Traded Note ( GWO) to surge.
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For one thing, the surge in investment in oil futures is not that large relative to the global trade in oil.
His policies of stable money, low tax rates and a muscular military and foreign policy enabled the U.S. to quickly recover and surge ahead so powerfully that 20 years later the U.S. share of global GDP had increased.
Unless there is drastic change we will see a rash of rationing of permitted flights, which will mean higher ticket prices, less economic productivity and a surge in passenger temperatures, which alone will bring on Al Gore's dreaded global warming.
One exception to the tepid performance is the surge in stocks tied to the growth of the middle class in Brazilian consumer: the Global X Brazil Consumer ETF (BRAQ) is up nearly 27% in the past year.
The surge in U.S. hiring comes after weeks of conflicting signals about the strength of the global economy.
The blue-chip Dow is building on a 788-point surge last week, its biggest weekly percentage gain since mid-July 2009, after central banks infused the global financial system with cheap dollar loans.
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