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...Washington has suggested to several Latin American countries that each one create a government committee to vet foreign investment in strategic sectors on grounds of national security, modelled on the inter-agency...
...“We need to reinvent industrial policy in America.”...
...Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, said Europe must prepare immediately for the complete severance of Russian gas exports this winter, urging governments to take measures to cut demand...
...Here’s the story of the find that sent shockwaves through the shipping world....
...The oil fund has also banned from its portfolios Evergreen Marine, Korea Line, Precious Shipping, and Thoresen Thai Agencies because of “risk of severe environmental damage and serious or systematic violations...
...“Americans were generous — this was the time when America was very confident as a world leader.”...
...Public records indicate that Clarity Trade & Finance, which claimed to be trading in agricultural commodities, made a profit of €1.2m in 2012, while Stratus International Contracting made nearly €16m in...
...Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Melvin Watt, who runs the Federal Housing Finance Agency...
...trading company in Belgium....
...“The development of lethal autonomous weapons systems is unwise, unethical and should be banned on an international scale.”...
...Directors from Canada’s Potash Corporation, the world’s largest fertiliser company and a significant shareholder in SQM, resigned in March last year over the company’s handling of the issue....
...Breakup theories have also drawn in Altria, Philip Morris International and even China National Tobacco Corporation....
...The state-owned Cofco Corporation, which recently reached an agreement with Noble Group, the commodities trader, under which its subsidiary Cofco International would acquire a stake in Noble Agri for $750m...
...“The ones you don’t hear about are the smaller corporations that send $50,000....
...Cost cuts identified included a continued salary freeze for government employees and a request for a waiver from the Jones Act, which requires shipping to and from US ports to be conducted with American...
...The agencies writing the compensation proposal are the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC, the Federal Housing Finance Agency...
...Although the American banker is not alone among a new wave of investors in the continent, which includes private equity firms such as KKR and Carlyle and state-owned funds including Investment Corporation...
...“Excessive risk related to derivatives, particularly at American International Group, was one of many factors that contributed to [the financial] crisis,” Mr Massad said....
...But in a report this week, the International Energy Agency said that growth targets looked at risk....
...Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was one of the driving forces behind reform of the derivatives market....
...US Airways fell 13.1 per cent to $16.36 in a matter of minutes and AMR Corporation, which operates American Airlines, plunged 44.4 per cent to $3.23....
...Scott O’Malia, a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said the “problem is so bad” that the agency has not been able to find the JPMorgan Chase trades entered into by a group of traders...
...These include Vale of Brazil, London-listed Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Anglo American, as well as Japanese trading companies such as Mitsui & Co....
...Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for the International Oil Trading Co, a Florida-based company that secured contracts worth $2.1bn to transport fuel from Jordan to US forces in Iraq, said: “We are proud to have...
...The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund, by Anita Raghavan, Business Plus, RRP$29 Raghavan digs into the insider trading scandal at Galleon...
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