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...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw Apple v Qualcomm: two years of conflict January 2017 US Federal Trade Commission sues Qualcomm, alleging monopolistic behaviour and charging of excessive licence fees...
...(FT) Investors take on Germany Inc Bayer recently endured a rebellion unprecedented in German corporate history, with shareholders delivering a vote of no confidence....
...“There’s nothing which makes that an impossible solution,” says Mr Inker, who adds there is no law requiring interest rates and inflation to rise....
...“I was a federal prosecutor for 10 years and I remember someone floating this as a possible solution once,” says Roger Burlingame, a partner at Kobre & Kim’s London office. “Everyone said, ‘Really?...
...Yet most organisations still fail to recognise the reality of their situation, best described in a speech by Robert Mueller, who retired as director of the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation in September...
...But developers would have a few years to come up with a solution....
...Nancy Mueller Handal, managing director at MetLife, says much of this is down to the issue of which lenders take losses first when a homeowner is in trouble....
...“The F&F takeover has been praised as a solution to the credit problems, partly because mortgage rates fell. However, it is of little interest to Main Street....
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
...That is especially true of network industries, which are not amenable to competitive solutions....
...And no company has ever faced a class-action suit larger than Dukes v Wal-Mart, which on Tuesday was given the go-ahead by a divided panel of three federal judges in California....
...The federal patent court, the US court of appeals for the federal circuit, agreed with him, relying on an obscure bit of a 20-year-old patent law written to stop US companies making components in the US...
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