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...Hedge funds and Wall Street banks face an easier time keeping large oil, grain and metal trades after persuading the US derivatives regulator to amend a controversial clampdown on commodity speculation....
...Smelters, refiners and fabricators have also used working inventory as collateral to obtain financing, according to Andy Shaw, base metals analyst at Credit Suisse....
...“The trend now is to close higher-cost plants and [to] improve the efficiency of lower-cost ones,” said Andy Shaw, base metals analyst at Credit Suisse....
...Bob Bernstein, a US lawyer who has represented metals fabricators, said the proposed reforms “try to solve a problem which, because of longer and longer queues, has led to bigger and bigger financial incentives...
...The latter is an interesting turn of phrase, for it suggests the problem runs much deeper than the peripheral explanation which has so far been expressed by end-users and fabricators....
...Shaw said he “profited substantially” from trades based on non-public information and, “I cannot begin to apologize for my incredibly stupid actions.”...
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
...Consumers, fabricators and even producers are trying to offload metal.” The shift offers an early indication of what many believe is now a period of recession in the eurozone economy....
...An obsessive coffee-table book by Paul Shaw documents that the Helvetica-style font that defined subway signage is in fact Standard Medium....
...“The reality is that the antennas are now external, meaning there is no layer of insulation between a user and the antenna”, said Shaw Wu, Kaufman Bros analyst....
...The Copper and Brass Fabricators Council alleged investment funds were the “major driver” behind rising copper prices. Many industry analysts attribute the price levels to industrial demand in Asia....
...Before DE Shaw, he worked at Citadel Investment Group where he was the first semiconductor analyst hired into the long/short TMT fund....
...Shaw Group and PIMCO, in supporting CME Group’s OTC CDS initiative....
...Group, executive vice-presidentSince 2004, previously software and services executive Amanda J Mesler, Logica North America President and CEOSince 2007, previously Sysco vice-president Ann Moore, Time Inc...
...As well as making disassembly faster and easier, snaps and other quick-release connections that are moulded into the main structure remove another material – the plastic or metal screw – from the product...
...And Hertz has developed Syndecrete, a cement-like material made from 41 per cent recycled materials, including glass, plastic, scraps of wood and metal shavings....
...The rise in lease rates increases the cost for fabricators wanting to use the metal for manufacturing....
...He called the company National Fabricators but changed the name a year later after taking over BF Shaw, a company that already had some national recognition....
...Already, questions have been raised about the political connections of two major contractors - the Shaw Group and Kellogg, Brown Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton - that have been represented by the lobbyist...
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