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Confidence Slumps To 5-Year Low Amid Housing, Credit Fear (Investor’s Business Daily)

Consumer confidence plunged to a five-year low in March, while expectations for the future dived to the lowest since the Watergate scandal and the...

German ministry denies Bundesbank gold sale report (Reuters)

Germany's Finance Ministry said on Saturday a magazine report that the government wants the Bundesbank to sell some of its gold reserves to help ease pressure on the federal budget

Argentine Farmers Set Up New Barricades (AP)

Farmers seething at export taxes on their crops resumed their blockades of rural highways on Saturday after talks failed to end a 17-day-old strike that has halted grain exports and

Oil market well-supplied, UAE OPEC governor says (Reuters)

Oil markets are well-supplied with inventories of crude oil and refined products over their five-year average, the OPEC governor of the United Arab Emirates said on Sunday.

Mutual Funds Lose Ground in 1st Quarter (AP)

As stock market analysts were starting to tally up Wall Street's first-quarter performance, they came up with a bleak but unsurprising result: Stock mutual funds in just about every corner

EU Wants June Trade Talks With Russia (AP)

European Union officials said Friday they hoped talks on closer ties with Russia -- which the EU wants to cover issues from trade and consumer protection to energy security --

Fire Stops Work at Enterprise Gas Plant (AP)

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. said Friday it halted operations at a natural gas processing facility in Wyoming following a gas leak and subsequent fire that is under investigation.

GeoPetro Resources Company Announces Year End 2007 Oil & Gas Reserves (Business Wire)

SAN FRANCISCO----GeoPetro Resources Company announces that it has filed its Statement of Reserves and Other Oil And Gas Information as at December 31, 2007, in compliance with National Instrument 51-101

Weak Economy Slows Cargo, Idles Railcars (AP)

BNSF Railway Co., the nation's top hauler of container rail freight, is parking miles of railcars in Montana and elsewhere because there isn't enough freight to keep them rolling.

Oil Drops As Iraq Supply Fears Ebb (AP)

Oil futures pulled back sharply Friday after fears of a major disruption of Iraqi crude exports dissipated. A stronger dollar also lessened investors' appetite for crude.