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Daily Archives: May 29, 2010

The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles

The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles — May 28, 2010: “The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles have been expanded on EIA’s Electricity page. Expanded data collection now includes data on advanced metering, mergers & acquisitions, time- and incentive-based demand response programs, and additional data on green pricing and net metering programs for the years 2007 and 2008.”

Bank funding and liquidity management: new report from the Committee on Global Financial System

Bank for International Settlements – “The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) today released a report on Funding patterns and liquidity management of internationally active banks. The report was prepared by a study group that was established by the CGFS and chaired by Mário Mesquita, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil.… Continue Reading

Bank for International Settlements: Toward a global risk map

Toward a global risk map, by Stephen Cecchetti, Ingo Fender and Patrick McGuire, Working Papers No 309, May 2010 “Global risk maps are unified databases that provide risk exposure data to supervisors and the broader financial market community worldwide. We think of them as giant matrices that track the bilateral (firm-level) exposures of banks, non-bank… Continue Reading

EIA: Monthly Energy Review – May 27, 2010

Monthly Energy Review — May 27, 2010: “EIA’s primary report of recent energy statistics: total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversions. Preliminary MER data show that U.S. primary energy consumption rose almost 3%… Continue Reading

Council on Foreign Relations – Deepwater Drilling's Future

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, U.S. Deepwater Drilling’s Future: “The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the growth of deepwater drilling and the challenges of balancing environmental regulation with efforts to expand U.S. domestic oil production. This new Backgrounder from CFR.org analyzes the upward trend in deepwater Gulf… Continue Reading