If it seemed like the horsemeat scandal was slowing down over yonder in Europe, that was probably a premature supposition. Dutch authorities in the Netherlands are pulling 50,000 tons of beef from the shelves of stores all across Europe over fears that it could possibly contain horsemeat.
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The portion of all stock trading taking place away from the public exchanges hit new highs over the last few weeks, amounting to close to 40 percent on several days, up from an average of 16 percent in 2008, according to Rosenblatt Securities.
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EU Parliament president Martin Schulz called on Sunday for small-scale bank customers to be protected under Cyprus’s EU bailout terms, saying any solution must be “socially acceptable”.
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The participation of both Japan and the United States, the world’s two largest developed economies, would make the pact cover nearly 40% of the world economy and potentially offer a model for an elusive global trade accord.
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Greater demand for virtual currencies could have a negative impact on the reputation of central banks, according to a report published by the European Central Bank in October last year. Since the report was released, bitcoin has risen more than 55 percent against the dollar and use of the currency has surged.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp’s Java software, amplifying security experts’ prior warnings to hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web.
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The Ivory coast is the world’s biggest cocoa producer and now led by an ex IMF shill. In order to keep cocoa affordable in the West, wages must be kept low in Africa. There have been attempts to corner this market in the past few years.
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Researchers say they believe that limited airborne transmission might be contributing to the spread of the disease in some parts of Africa. They are concerned that pigs might be a natural host for the lethal infection.
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GSK has withdrawn another lot of its Infanrix Hexa vaccine over concerns about potential microbial contamination. The move follows just weeks after the UK drug major recalled six lots of the vaccine in Australia, again citing contamination problems as the motivation for the move.
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The Guatemala military, once one of the most brutal and feared in Central America, is resurging to take on violent crime, forging closer ties with American troops and law enforcement even as worry over human rights abuses and corruption intensifies.
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