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FILE PHOTO: Oil pump jacks are seen at the Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas deposit in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina, January 21, 2019.  REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo
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Oil faces uphill fight as demand woes, oversupply challenge OPEC efforts: Reuters poll

A survey of 41 economists and analysts predicted that Brent crude would average $74.53 per barrel in 2025.

Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru, Tsanim Evaristo Wajai Asamat, left, and Pamuk Teofilo Kukush Pati, pose inside the Westminster Hall in London, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Indigenous leaders travel to UK from Peru to draw attention to oil damage and banking

In the last decade, there were 89 leaks from the Petroperu pipeline running through the Amazon Rainforest.

FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on HSBC bank in Geneva, Switzerland, August 16, 2018.  REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
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HSBC says governments’ climate plans need to provide sector details

HSBC group says governments must provide sector-level detail on carbon emission plans to make them workable.

FILE PHOTO: An employee works on an ingot of 99.97 percent pure palladium at the Krastsvetmet nonferrous metal plant in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin/File Photo
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Goldman, BASF, others in $20 million platinum, palladium price-fixing settlement

Goldman Sachs and BASF agree to pay $20m to settle antitrust lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to suppress platinum and palladium prices