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Venezuela's budget is based on oil at $120 a barrel.
But between the lines of the modest adjustment package he announced on March 21st can be glimpsed the true gravity of the situation.Venezuela's original 2009 budget was based on oil at $60 a barrel.
President Vladimir Putin said in December that the budget had been calculated based on oil at $50 a barrel.
Yet today, instead of trading at six-times normal current earnings, the company is trading at 5.6-times temporarily depressed earnings and at only three-times estimates for 2006, based on oil at $52 per barrel.
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The vehicles are based on oil-in-water or water-in-oil carriers.
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