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US fuel sellers saddle up for Mexico’s newly free market

Bloomberg From oil majors to trading companies to pipeline operators, US companies are jumping at the chance to supply a newly free Mexico fuel market. After years of preparation, Mexico finished liberalizing prices for gasoline and diesel across the country. Foreign companies were allowed to start moving fuels in April last year, but now consumers’ costs will be more closely ...

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Big shale turns OPEC ally from foe with focus on oil returns

Bloomberg Don’t expect Big Shale to rush and fill the hole left by OPEC in the oil market. Executives from three of the biggest independent US drillers say they won’t increase activity just because prices rise after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies agreed to extend output curbs. The emphasis, instead, will be on maintaining spending discipline ...

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Kill the tax bill

What the Republicans are offering on taxes is a bad bargain for America’s future. They would borrow — roughly $1.5 trillion over a decade — to finance tax cuts that are pleasing for the present. Future Americans would pay the bill. There are at least three reasons why the Senate should reject its version of this self-serving deal. First, it’s ...

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