WSJ’s Rebecca Blumenstein and Andrew Browne discuss China’s recent investment in natural resources, including a $25 billion deal with Russia for oil.
WSJ, 2/17/2009
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February 18th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
China. A billion reasons to be long commodities.