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Exclusive: Mexico moves to launch world’s largest oil hedge program – sources

Mexico has made the first moves to launch its annual $1 billion oil hedging program by asking banks for quotes, sources familiar with the deal said, while buying in financial oil options contracts for 2020 has risen in recent days, consistent with the giant trade.

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Exclusive: Middleman implicates top executives at Vitol, Trafigura in alleged bribery ring

A middleman in a graft scheme at Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has implicated the chairman of global energy trading firm Vitol in a bribery operation to obtain oil contracts, as well as two high-ranking executives at rival Trafigura and its former CEO, according to plea bargain testimony seen by Reuters.

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Marijuana Policy Project Director on Prohibition vs. Regulation

Despite the fact that legalization is spreading across the U.S., a surprising trend has taken root…
We’re actually seeing an increase in marijuana-related arrests.
And even though gritty crime dramas on TV might suggest otherwise, the majority of these arrests aren’t for “kingpins” or illicit drug dealers. They’re for simple possession.
Roughly 90% of all cannabis arrests are for possession. In fact, someone is arrested on a marijuana-related charge every 48 seconds in this country.
Since 1995, the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) has been at the forefront of changing marijuana laws in the U.S. The organization is in the business of seeing cannabis prohibition …read more […]