BLOOMBERG - Brent for February settlement lost 20 cents to $66.82 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Prices climbed $1.77, or 2.7 percent, to $67.02 a barrel Tuesday, the highest close since May 2015. The global benchmark crude traded at a premium of $6.95 to WTI.

IMF - Since the 2011 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), India has recorded strong growth in both economic activity and financial assets, supported by important structural reforms and terms of trade gains.

REUTERS - Shipping data in Thomson Reuters Eikon shows LPG shipments to India will reach 2.4 million tonnes in December, pushing it ahead of top importer China, on 2.3 million tonnes, for the first time.

IMF - Bolivia achieved impressive economic and social advances from 2006–2014. During that period, real GDP averaged about 5.1 percent annually and the share of population living in the extreme poverty fell by one half. These notable gains now face challenges related to the impact of lower commodity prices.

IMF - Overall growth is slowly picking up but recovery remains challenging. Economic activity expanded by 1.4 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2017—the second consecutive quarter of positive growth after five quarters of recession—driven by recovering oil production and agriculture.

PLATTS - Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina plans to spend $3.324 billion on its upstream business in 2018, a 21.16% jump year on year.

IMF - Productivity growth will be the primary determinant of UK living standards in the long run.

МИНЭКОНОМРАЗВИТИЯ РОССИИ - Объем накопленных российских инвестиций в Азербайджанскую Республику составляет около 1,5 млрд.долларов. Большая их часть направлена в нефтяной сектор Азербайджана на развитие месторождений на каспийском шельфе.

The price of oil in 2018 will be volatile with commodity market traders selling on signals of OPEC-Russia “cheating” or members producing more oil than the extended Algiers Agreement output quotas.

МИНЭНЕРГО РОССИИ - «Мы выйдем на 690 миллиардов кубометров газа. Это плюс 8% к показателю прошлого года. Знаковым событием стал ввод первой очереди завода Ямал СПГ». Глава энергетического ведомства подчеркнул, что полным ходом идет строительство газопроводов Турецкий поток и Сила Сибири.