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Stories for February 16th 2008

  • Saturday, February 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Petrobras & Pemex consider deepwater G. of Mexico project

    Brazil's government owned oil and gas corporation Petrobras has invited Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex to join it as a minority partner in a deepwater exploration project on the US side of the Gulf of Mexico revealed Samir Awad Petrobras executive manager for the Americas, Africa and Eurasia.

  • Saturday, February 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Identity theft, main US consumer fraud for 7 years running

    Identity theft for the seventh year in a row topped in 2007 the list of consumer fraud complaints recorded by the United States Federal Trade Commission, FTC. The list contained in the publication “Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data January-December 2007,” showed that of 813,899 total complaints received in 2007, 258,427, or 32% were related to identity theft.