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Crude oil prices slide hard Thursday
Thursday, November 12
JAKARTA, April 15 (UPI) -- Indonesia banned rice exports and Kazakhstan banned wheat exports Tuesday, as the list of nations fighting inflation with food export bans continues to grow.
Vietnam, Egypt, India, and China are among those that have banned rice exports this year, The Financial Times reported.
Indonesia, now added to the list, imported 1.4 million metric tons of rice in 2007, but expected to a bumper crop in 2008.
Inflation in the country reached 8.2 percent in March, an 18-month high, the report said.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) --
Crude oil prices fell Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange to under $77 per barrel, despite the dollar's trend towards weakness.
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