The Granite Wash located in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle areas and has attracted attention as horizontal drilling is making well finds larger and thus more economical.

Colombia requests $10.4 billion from the International Monetary Fund under its new flexible credit line, becoming the third country after Mexico and Poland to seek access to the facility.

A new exchange-traded fund gives investors the rare opportunity to gain broad exposure to the equity market in Colombia, as the Latin American country moves to mend its international reputation and focus investor attention on its untapped economic potential.