Colombian oil exports fell half this year
Xinhua in Bogota, on April 2nd (Xinhua Zhao Hui) Colombian Petroleum Institute on 2nd predicted, by the impact of the international market price of crude oil around low, the exports of crude oil and derivatives in Colombia this year, would be between 5.2 billion U.S. dollars and 6.8 billion U.S. dollars, only about half of last year. President of the Association Alejandro Martinez at a news conference on the same day said that the prices in downturn in Colombia caused a sharp drop of oil exports.
The United States decided to relax the accounting standards of valuation at fair value
Xinhua in Washington, on April 2nd Electricity, the Financial Accounting Standards Board of United States has on April 2nd decided to loosen the accounting standards of valuation in accordance with fair value, giving financial institution a greater flexibility in denominated assets. Voted unanimously by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the United States consisted by five members, financial institution in the use of valuation at fair value of financial assets can have a greater sense of autonomy.
American 30-year mortgage rates recorded low again
Xinhua in Chicago on April 2nd (Xinhua Tan Shusen) According to the latest data which the U.S. mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported, in the week as of April 2, the 30-year mortgage rates of United States at average was 4.78% and creatde a record low. According to the data, the level of interest rates was lower than that of 4.85 percent last week, lower than 5.88 percent of the same period last year, the lowest level since in 1971 the start of the data of the United States. Since the Federal Reserve decide to buy a large-scale type of mortgage-backed bonds, the United States continued low mortgage rates, and mortgage applications continued to increase in quantity.
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