<![CDATA[Anchorage Daily News -- Money]]> http://www.adn.com/171/index.xml Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, AK en-us Copyright 2012 Anchorage Daily News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:10 AKST online@adn.com (Online Staff) MI RSS Burninator 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 171 60 <![CDATA[Today's oil, gas, gold, zinc prices]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/10/2310705/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/10/2310705/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:31:15 AKST North Slope oil: $117.17 per barrel, down $1.17…

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]]> <![CDATA[Alaska lawmakers head for DC to lobby for ANWR drilling]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2309652/legislators-plan-dc-trip-to-sell.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2309652/legislators-plan-dc-trip-to-sell.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:33:54 AKST Alaska lawmakers including House Speaker Mike Chenault will miss several days of the legislative session next week to make another pitch in Washington, D.C., for oil drilling in the Arctic…

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]]> <![CDATA[House resolution aims anger at feds over old Arctic wells]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2308388/house-resolution-aims-anger-at.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2308388/house-resolution-aims-anger-at.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:15:18 AKST A state House resolution calls on the federal government to properly plug and reclaim the sites of so-called legacy wells within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

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]]> <![CDATA[Thursday's oil, gas, gold, zinc prices]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2308840/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2308840/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:04:02 AKST North Slope oil: $118.34 per barrel, up $1.13…

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]]> <![CDATA[States, banks reach settlement in home foreclosure abuse case]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2308198/states-banks-reach-settlement.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/09/2308198/states-banks-reach-settlement.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:43:33 AKST All states except Oklahoma have reached a $25 billion deal with the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst. Five major banks will…

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]]> <![CDATA[Alaska Ship and Drydock could become part of Oregon company]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/08/2307468/alaska-ship-and-drydock-could.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/08/2307468/alaska-ship-and-drydock-could.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:55:13 AKST An Oregon company will acquire Alaska Ship and Drydock.

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]]> <![CDATA[Democrats target lax federal oversight of oil and gas drilling]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/08/2306646/democrats-target-lax-fed-oversight.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/08/2306646/democrats-target-lax-fed-oversight.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:12:07 AKST Federal policing of oil and natural gas on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, U.S.House Democrats said…

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]]> <![CDATA[Wednesday's oil, gas, gold, zinc prices]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/08/2306852/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/08/2306852/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:37:21 AKST North Slope oil: $117.21 per barrel, up $5.30…

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]]> <![CDATA[Agencies pledge science-based policy in Arctic development]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2304714/agencies-pledge-science-based.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2304714/agencies-pledge-science-based.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:44:20 AKST The head of President Obama's working group on Alaska energy development says the federal government will bring a renewed effort to incorporating science in Arctic policy decisions.

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]]> <![CDATA[Audit takes new dig at Native corporation contracting benefit]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305098/audit-finds-lack-of-oversight.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305098/audit-finds-lack-of-oversight.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:09:07 AKST The debate over the sole-source contracting privileges that Alaska Native corporations have used to make billions of dollars is flaring in Congress with a new government audit that finds lax…

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]]> <![CDATA[Alaska Senate plans generic oil tax bill to start process]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305090/alaska-senate-plans-generic-oil.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305090/alaska-senate-plans-generic-oil.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:34:04 AKST The Alaska Senate is planning to unveil a generic oil tax bill this week, leaving to the committee process the job of finding problems in the proposal and working out…

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]]> <![CDATA[BP reports strong profits, hikes dividend despite oil spill]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305400/bp-reports-strong-profits-hikes.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305400/bp-reports-strong-profits-hikes.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:54:08 AKST Less than two years ago, the British oil company BP was worried about its very survival as a seemingly unstoppable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatened to destroy…

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]]> <![CDATA[Tuesday's oil, gas, gold, zinc prices]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305014/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/07/2305014/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:21:15 AKST North Slope oil: $116.91 per barrel, up $3.00…

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]]> <![CDATA[Homer business's nets are quite a catch]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/06/2303679/homer-businesss-nets-quite-a-catch.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/06/2303679/homer-businesss-nets-quite-a-catch.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:05:34 AKST It's been 17 years since Matt Alward did his first for-hire work on nets. Today, Alward owns and operates Bulletproof Nets and, with the help of an eight-10 person crew,

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]]> <![CDATA[BP gives $1 million for UAA lab to study metals corrosion]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/06/2303584/bp-gives-1-million-for-uaa-lab.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/06/2303584/bp-gives-1-million-for-uaa-lab.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:44:25 AKST BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. announced Monday that it will donate $1 million to the University of Alaska Anchorage to help create a lab to study the effects of corrosion on…

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]]> <![CDATA[Today's oil, gas, gold, zinc prices]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/06/2303151/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/06/2303151/todays-oil-gas-gold-zinc-prices.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:06:48 AKST North Slope oil: $113.91 per barrel, down $0.93…

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]]> <![CDATA[Heartless manager may be corporate psychopath]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2302130/heartless-manager-may-be-corporate.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2302130/heartless-manager-may-be-corporate.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:47 AKST Four months ago I was on top of the world. My business had just been bought by an Alaska Native corporation, giving me enough money to retire and my small…

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]]> <![CDATA[Conventions and conferences]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2302126/conventions-and-conferences.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2302126/conventions-and-conferences.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:27:44 AKST Area events…

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]]> <![CDATA[Business meetings, seminars, events]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2302125/business-meetings-seminars-events.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2302125/business-meetings-seminars-events.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:26:56 AKST Business related events scheduled around Alaska…

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]]> <![CDATA[Shell still hopes to drill this summer in Arctic waters]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2301816/shell-hopeful-for-arctic-drilling.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/05/2301816/shell-hopeful-for-arctic-drilling.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:56:32 AKST It's the billion-dollar question in Alaska for 2012: Will this be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters? Two months into 2012, the oil giant…

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]]> <![CDATA[Parnell backs change in DNR mission statement]]> http://www.adn.com/2012/02/04/2300898/parnell-backs-change-in-dnr-mission.html#storylink=rss http://www.adn.com/2012/02/04/2300898/parnell-backs-change-in-dnr-mission.html Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:01:59 AKST Alaskans were surprised to learn that a new and very different mission statement has been adopted by the Department of Natural Resources. Questions about the mission shift dominated a recent…

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