Oil markets have been gyrating amid fears that the chaos in Libya could spread to petrostates in the Persian Gulf, potentially disrupting global oil supplies. ❋ Guy Chazan (2011)
The EFSF is planning to approach other cash-rich nations such as Brazil and petrostates in the Middle East, people familiar with the matter said. ❋ David Gauthier-Villars (2011)
Working in the rich world—with its more predictable taxes and investor-friendly policies—removes some of the risks about the big oil companies that worry investors, making them less vulnerable to the resource nationalism of petrostates like Russia and Venezuela. ❋ Guy Chazan (2011)
But the petrostates are, understandably, now in a collective freak-out; the Germans can't quite believe how insufficiently insulating their rectitude is in a crunch; and all of the Asian surplus economies have been hit, in just the past few months, by shocking drops in growth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Fair enough: but what about the deeper problem of how savings surpluses (in China and the petrostates) relate to credit surpluses in the rich world? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Others suddenly find themselves no longer rising (see this week's cover story on the decline of the petrostates). ❋ Unknown (2009)
This time, the situation is more worrisome because today's financing comes not from U.S. allies, but from strategic rivals like Russia, China and a number of relatively unstable petrostates. ❋ Ian Bremmer (2009)
So the question remains: when the petrostates are ready to deal, will the West be ready? ❋ Unknown (2008)
So Cambodia's farm potential gives it an advantage over other emerging petrostates like East Timor and Papua New Guinea, and Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh wants to triple exports of milled rice to 5 million metric tons in the coming years. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Outside the big surplus countries like China and the petrostates, a rising number of nations have been running big trade and capital deficits. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some petrostates simply prefer working with government-owned companies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The region's new wealth has triggered a bout of deal making that has bankers rushing to the petrostates of the Persian Gulf. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These commitments give the petrostates plenty of incentives to prop up oil prices. ❋ Unknown (2011)
If that's an inconvenient truth, well, it's less inconvenient than trillions of dollars 'worth of new reactors, perpetual dependence on hostile petrostates, or a fricasseed planet. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And even the petrostates we don't like have to sell us oil at whatever price the market sets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Those who object to the behavior of petrostates might wish to consider whether they want them to be checked by the need for relations with the US or with China. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Europe) waits for the U.S. to make the first move, the old international institutions (e.g. IMF) get back some of the importance they'd lost in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, the global recession knocks down the petrostates by a peg or two, and China steps back a bit to focus on domestic pressures. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He' [such a] [Petrost]! ❋ Kat0307 (2013)
