GLG News by Supermarket Experts

In its ongoing drive to reverse the privatizations of previous years, the government of Evo Morales has indicated its intention to bring ENTEL back under government control.   As with similar efforts, it appears this will not take the form of expropriation but rather will involve compensatio...

- Mining in “nationalization” in Bolivia will amount to tax hikes.- Economic policies of the Morales government are increasingly overshadowed by rising civil strife, regional rivalries, and a deadlocked constituent assembly.- Morales’s statements to the effect that the Constituent Assembly will not...

As a former Director and Executive of HD, I make observations based on my research of how the customer is rating the shopping experience compared to that of LOW.  I have noted a significant shift in culture and attitude at HD under Nardelli's leadership and have marked changes in several...

  We shouldn’t expect a return to cheap oil prices. A strong economy needs to be based on fundamentals, especially an ever increasing productivity.

1. As it stands now, the merger is cancelled due to the obstacles created by the Italian government. 2. However, the merger could finally occur when the uncertainties on the new Italian road-concession tariffs disappear. But in this case, the value of Autostrade would have to decrease if the new...

While the USA and nations such as China and India don’t assume emission reduction targets; the EU won’t be able to pursue alone stricter compromises for the after-Kyoto world. With the tougher right allocations, carbon markets will be much lively from 2008 on.

Iran needs to increase its investment in oil and gas extracting capacity, and to increase domestically the price of oil products to contain demand and increase efficiency, if it wants to keep its status as a key oil and gas exporter country. The same can be said of countries such as Venezuela. We...

Russia is using its growing energy power as a geopolitical weapon against the European Union and the US. Western countries need to act as a whole against Russia on energy issues. This is especially true of the European Union, which should have a sole voice on these grounds, avoiding bilateral solutions...

Fears of Saudi Arabia and Iran getting involved in Iraq’s conflict are giving rise to the possibility of sudden increases in short-run oil prices even as the supply situation remains relatively stable. The concerns over the situation in the Middle East also coincide with other factors, such as...

Gas Natural’s lawyers keep finding new obstacles for E.ON in its battle to seize Endesa. It’s increasingly likely that a Spanish court of justice declares that E.ON’s bid is null.