Global demand for Brazil's farm exports, oil and iron ore, led by China's voracious appetite, has been growing rapidly.

全球对于巴西农产品出口、石油和铁砂的需求(在中国大规模采购领军下)一直迅速增长。

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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Most European stocks rose early Wednesday, underpinned by gains on Wall Street in the previous session and led higher by oil giant BP and insurer AXA.

欧洲股市周三开盘普遍走高，受到前一交易日美国股市上涨的影响，英国石油公司和法国安盛保险公司涨幅居前。

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Mexico led Latin American oil production in December with 2.72 million barrels a day, followed by Venezuela, with an estimated 2.35 million barrels a day.

墨西哥去年12月的石油产量仍居拉美各国之首，为每天272万桶，其次是委内瑞拉，日产量约为235万桶。

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The discovery of the largest oil and gas field in North America led to the Alaska Pipeline.

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The success of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of trusts in other industries.

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That disaster led Congress to pass new measures to prevent oil pollution.

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Exxon has long led the oil majors in investment in research and technology, keeping up such work even when the oil price collapse of the late 1990s led rivals to slash funding.

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It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.

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Chavez, though cancer-stricken in recent years, had led the oil-rich Latin American nation for years by espousing a fiery brand of socialism.

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