The European Parliament will hold a second plenary vote in early July on a stopgap plan to bolster prices in the world’s biggest carbon market after it rejected the draft measure last month.
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Media reports are emerging that the head of carbon trading for Barclays bank has resigned in the aftermath of the EU’s rejection of a backloading scheme that would have revived the cap-and-trade market.
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Previous European legislation providing competitors with equal access to infrastructure still stymies Gazprom’s expansion into the European market. The Road Map promises support for such large-scale projects of mutual interest.
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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei says it would no longer focus on the US market for its core business, months after the US closed the door on it by labelling it a security threat. Huawei has denied those claims and accused the US government of protectionism
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FDA officials defended the agency’s handling of the Cetero case as prudent and scientifically sound, noting that the agency has found no discrepancies between any original drug and its generic copy and no sign that any patients have been harmed.
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It is always a save bet to go against what Goldman Sachs says. Corn and Soy commodities are plunging as well as revised harvest numbers show that the 2012 harvest wasn’t nearly as bad as predicted.
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Authorities slaughter more than 20,000 birds after H7N9 strain of virus is detected in pigeons and human death toll rises to six
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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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The new venture, Nasdaq Private Market, will help the exchange rebuild its reputation as the exchange of choice for unlisted companies, after it was criticized for its role in the botched Facebook Inc IPO last May.
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In the U.S., weapon manufacturers such as Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have opened “offensive computer security” departments. Several American companies have specialized in this field as well. The most famous is Immunity, based in Miami Beach, which organizes every year a security conference called “Infiltrate.
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