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A station attendant refuels a vehicle at an OAO Rosneft gas station in Moscow on Dec. 2. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg News) (December 3, 2014) - The great oil bust of 2014 is something to behold. Since mid-June, crude prices have dropped roughly 40 percent, from $115 a barrel for the Brent benchmark to about $70 a barrel now. U.S.... 

(4 Dec) - Sweden has long been an exemplar for other European countries on policy matters, whether its famed social model or how to deal with a financial crisis. But this week’s political turmoil in Stockholm risks turning Sweden into a harbinger of the instability populist parties are able to wreak in Europe. The anti-immigration... 

HDB flats If Miss Tan Lin Neo ("Drop in resale flat values worries soon-to-be retiree"; Nov 26) intends to sell her flat and downgrade to a smaller resale HDB unit, then the drop in resale values should not be a concern as she would benefit from this. Besides downgrading, there are other ways to monetise an HDB flat to fund...