Earlier this year the IMF board voted to cut staff and sell off about an eighth of its gold reserves (some 400 tonnes) to meet expected future funding shortfalls.

今年早些时候，国际货币基金组织投票决定裁员和出售其八分之一的黄金储备（大约400吨）以填补未来预期的资金不足。

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More consolidation is expected among companies with resources in Alberta’s tar sands, which hold the world’s second-biggest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia.

加拿大Alterta地区石油储量排在沙特之后，居世界第二位。

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Though Chevron of America has rights to the only block where large proven reserves exist, much more oil is expected to be found.

认为语义不清，有信息没有翻出来：block是“区块”，而不是泛泛的大片区域，尽管唯一探明了的储量巨大的区块由雪佛龙所有，但还存在大量未探明的储量。

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In Oman Shell overbooked 250 million barrels of oil equivalent in reserves it expected to find in expansions of existing fields.

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However, if Chesapeake is not able to develop its shale reserves as expected, there can be a downside to our forecasts.

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Growth, inflation, the balance of payments and foreign exchange reserves are all expected to show the effects of lost businesses and reconstruction costs.

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