Ambrose Evans-Pritchard van de Daily Telegraph opent de aanval op de Nederlandse crisisaanpak. "It is a case of misaligned monetary policy. The Netherlands offers a salutary lesson of what can happen to a rich sophisticated economy caught in a post-bubble crunch once it has lost control of its currency, central bank and monetary levers." (...)…
Reuters: Shell is the western world's number two company by production behind Exxon Mobil. But, like its peers, it is struggling to replace reserves and boost production, and faces a squeeze on earnings as costs rise while the price of oil threatens to fall decisively below the psychologically important 64.2 pounds a barrel level.