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HOUSTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Easy money, super-sized frack jobs, and desperate drillers offering deep discounts to oil producers - all three have been credited for sustaining U.S. crude output during the worst price slump in six years.

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Mining and trading group Glencore said on Wednesday it has raised $2.5 billion through a share placement as part of its plans to cut debt built up through years of rapid expansion.

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Mining and trading group Glencore said on Wednesday it has raised $2.5 billion through a share placement as part of its plans to cut debt.

ISTANBUL, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Police detained 11 people in central Turkey, including executives of a conglomerate and university officials, in an operation targeting supporters of a U.S.-based cleric accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of plotting a coup, CNN Turk television said on Wednesday.

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Sometime this year, possibly even this week, the U.S. Federal Reserve will add billions of dollars to the annual cost of borrowing.

(Wed, 16 Sep 2015) New preliminary data from the China Statistical Abstract 2015 show an upward revision to China's historical coal consumption and production. Energy-content-based coal consumption from 2000 to 2013 is up to 14% higher than previously reported, while coal production is up to 7% higher.

* U.S. oil discount to Brent narrows nearly two-thirds from Aug

CARACAS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he would travel shortly to seek support for his push for a summit between OPEC and non-OPEC producers on lower oil prices.

CARACAS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela has been spared a Pinochet-like figure, president Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday, in an apparent defense of a near 14-year jail sentence handed to opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez after deadly protests last year.

BEIJING, Sept 16 (Reuters) - China is planning to extend its pilot power price reforms to more regions in the future, the vice-head of the country's state planning agency said on Wednesday, part of its efforts to make its huge electricity sector more responsive to the market.

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