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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - NAL Oil & Gas Trust ('NAL' or the 'Trust') (TSX:NAE.UN) today filed with Canadian securities authorities its Annual Information Form ('AIF') for the year ended December 31, 2008 on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ('SEDAR'). The AIF contains the annual disclosure and reports relating to reserves data and other oil and gas information required pursuant to National Instrument 51-101 Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities (Forms 51-101F1, F2 and F3).

A leading helicopter company is set to shed jobs due to a decline in demand for its services in the oil and gas industry.

US home sales rose last month as buyers took advance of bargain priced houses that had previously been repossessed.

I am a banker who lived through the S & L crisis in the Southwest in the late 1980s. One of the principal problems then was that the FDIC and the RTC owned or controlled a significant portion of the commercial real estate in Texas. The FDIC and the RTC were short-sighted (and sometimes incompetent) in the management of problem loans and in foreclosed commercial property. Every action they took only exacerbated a bad market -- calling or not renewing performing loans, which led to more foreclosures, and selling properties at fire-sale prices, etc. The existence of substantial government or bank ownership of property in a market can truly cast a cloud on the local real estate market. I think the Geithner plan CAN be different -- it places control of the assets in private (read: entrepreneurial) hands, and these private hands will have skin in the game. IF the FDIC will stay out of the management of the assets and NOT insist on "liquidation at any cost", this "for-p

By Tina Peterson As 18% -- or 6.5 million mt/year -- of global aluminum production is being curtailed amid a 60% decline in London Metal Exchange aluminum prices, analysts and corporate officials still say more output cuts are needed, particularly in

The USDCAD did exceed its wave 3 terminus on March 9, so it is possible that 5 waves up from .9055 are complete. Still, as long as price is above 1.2020,...

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Kamakura Corporation announced Monday that it has completed a major upgrade of Kamakura Risk Information Services that links 40 key macro economic risk factors to the default probabilities of more than 20,000 public firms in 30 countries. The KRIS upgrade shows that home price related risk factors represent the five most significant risk factors of the 40 factors in the study. Real growth in gross domestic product and the U.S. unemployment rate, which are 2 of the 3 macro factors mandated by bank regulators for stress testing at the 19 largest U.S. banks, rank only 14th and 27th on the

THE head of the Federal Government&os;s climate change review, Ross Garnaut, warned that Australia was likely to face a world tariff war driven by Europe and the US over greenhouse gas emissions unless there was a strong global agreement to prevent ...

The next generation in revolutionary biotechs has arrived. (And they may be the only way to make money in this market!) Each one of these 3 breakout stocks could realistically bring you gains of 128%, 185%, or even 422% in the next 6 months! Jan. 23, 2009 was a historic date in [...]Article first published on Today's Financial News— We bring you analysis on everything from crude oil prices to real estate markets to stock market news—even free stock picks!These 3 biotechs could bring you gains of 422% in just 6 months:http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/us-stocks-and-markets/these-3-biotechs-could-bring-you-gains-of-422-in-just-6-months-8325.html

The markets are soaring today on hopes of resolving the toxic asset conundrum. But it may be too late for General Growth Properties (NYSE:GGP). Unless it gets bondholder consent, bankruptcy could be just around the corner. By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.comBaltimore - (TFN): There are countless investors not sleeping well at night these days, but few [...]Article first published on Today's Financial News— We bring you analysis on everything from crude oil prices to real estate markets to stock market news—even free stock picks!General Growth down to its last magic trick:http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/us-stocks-and-markets/general-growth-down-to-its-last-magic-trick-8326.html