| Insufficient funds asia micro loan Niger announced the audit last month to determine costreductions in a new long-term contract and wants to dramaticallyincrease the state's revenues from the Cominak and Somair mines,in which Niger holds a stake of over 30 percent.
bad debts U.S. utilities have been burning less thermal coal in recentyears as the boom in hydraulic fracturing extraction techniqueshas driven down prices for natural gas. Higher natural gasprices this year, however, have prompted a switch back tocheaper coal. Natural gas-fired electricity generation hasdeclined 14 percent this year, Peabody said.
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