Will Oil Majors Really Sink Money Into America's Waters?

The Interior Department unveiled on Thursday a draft proposal for leasing areas of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas drilling between 2019 and 2024. As five-year plans go, it's an ambitious one, envisaging leasing on fully 25 out of 26 planning areas — from sea to shining sea, as it were:.
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Donald Trump vowed during his 2016 campaign for president that he would be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Employment data released Friday show that the economy added 2.06 million jobs during his first full year in office. That's good. It's also 185,000 fewer jobs than the 2.24
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The legion of microcaps that have booked massive share-price gains after changing their business to focus on the crypto craze are now looking to cash in. Long Blockchain Inc., the company known as Long Island Iced Tea until Dec. 21, waded into the secondary market Friday with an offering of 1.6
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An improving US economy is helping all the industries to gradually return to growth trajectory. Notable decline in unemployment, easing of the U.S. dollar, momentum in oil prices, increase in spending and an improving GDP buoy optimism among investors. Fed officials expect unemployment to decline
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A decade after the housing market crashed, foreclosures in Dallas-Fort Worth have slowed to a trickle. Fewer than 1,000 homes are taken from owners who didn't keep up with mortgage payments each month in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area. But could they be on the verge of going back up?
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Derya Matraş, has been the Turkey director of Facebook, running the Turkey office from London for the past two years. Some 44 million Turks use Facebook on a monthly basis. Facebook now has a whopping two billion monthly users worldwide. Its global income increased 47 percent in the third quarter
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning a two-year delay on the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) policy that would require municipalities to assess local housing patterns for racial bias and to offer plans for correcting the problem if such bias is
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The real estate industry is supporting a GOP legislative proposal that makes sweeping changes to landlord-tenant laws and restricts local governments from enacting ordinances or charging fees to inspect rental properties. The measure, Senate Bill 639, which is authored by Sens. Frank Lasee, of De
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ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2. Dated April 8, 2009 Filed April
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Dina Wadia, joint managing partner, JSA Associates, representing the Joint Lenders' Forum, told The Hindu, “The agreement was signed with the lenders last week and [they] have agreed to the asset monetisation programme of the company as it would give maximum value [for] the assets… CDB also
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The Federal Government's low-to-no down payment programs via Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHA, VHA and USDA, combined with the hyper-promotion of cash-out refinancings (bigger 1st mortgages and/or second-lien mortgages) tell me that, once again, most people in this country believe – or
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Could you use a smart assistant in your bathroom? Kohler thinks so. The bathroom giant is connecting everything from your toilet to your shower to the web and allowing you to control them all using Alexa. The company announced a number of new products today including a new Verdera Voice Lighted
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A new bill introduced in the California state legislature would provide residential housing developers with the incentive to construct taller and denser developments near major transit hubs. According to a Curbed San Francisco report, SB 827 would exempt new housing developments from certain
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If you're following the latest food forecasts, you'll know that plant-based diets will be huge in 2018. Americans, however, will consume a record amount of meat in 2018: an average of 222.2 pounds of red meat and poultry per person, according to Bloomberg. Meat is cheap (especially because producers
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The pace of sales for U.S. luxury homes weakened slightly in 2017, with the overall housing market outperforming the still-strong upper tier — according to new data from realtor.com®. Despite these signs of a national slowdown, the luxury market remained red-hot in states like Hawaii, Colorado and
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… in Hamilton to $478,000. Philip Golfi, with Remax Escarpment Realty, says it remains an active market with sales higher than the 10-year average. … “That just might be in part because the housing market was so hot in terms of the first two quarters where everybody that was looking to move, moved.”.
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Many in Birmingham's real estate community already have their eyes on possibilities in the area north of the downtown core. A possible redevelopment of the vacant Carraway property could act as a shot in the arm to the area, which has struggled to attract the same attention and investments as other
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If one of your New Year's resolutions is homeownership, check out our tips to help you reach your goal.
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The precise impact the legislation will have on the state's housing market will become less opaque over the next year or two as taxpayers adapt to the new guidelines, Cole said. Property owners in the Capital Region flocked to municipal offices beginning Dec. 28 to prepay their 2018 taxes amid
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“I am pleased to welcome Shannon back to the Financial Services Committee,” Hensarling said. “Her leadership will be invaluable this year as we work to put forth bold solutions to reform our broken housing finance system and continue our efforts to pass legislation that promotes a healthy economy that
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