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Posts related to ‘Regulation’

VioPharma Runs Into FDA & FTC Troubles Over Staph Drug (VPHM)

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 8:35 am

ViroPharma Incorporated (NASDAQ: VPHM) is getting crushed on news that the Food & Drug Administration has denied the petition filed by ViroPharma on March 17, 2006 related to the FDA's ...
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Verizon’s Potential Endless Liability Over Text Scams & Spams (VZ, BAC, SBUX, AAPL)

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 9:04 am

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) may have a monster dividend north of 5% for investors, but the telecom and communications giant could soon face a liability if a current trend continues.  Scammers and ...
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An SEC Concern Over Target Date Retirement Fund Disclosures

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 9:08 am

The Securities and Exchange Commission is highlighting something which may be a concern for the popular mutual fund themes called Target Date Retirement Funds.  For the billions and billions of ...
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SEC Moves Closer To Canadians To Regulate Financial Firms

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 5:11 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that its senior staff met last week with counterparts at the Ontario Securities Commission.  The move aims to discuss ways to further strengthen ...
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Firms Approved to Make E15 Ethanol (ADM, BIOF, VLO)

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 7:23 am

The US Environmental Protection Agency yesterday released a list of 20 companies that have been approved to manufacture ethanol for use in blending the 15% ethanol-gasoline blend known as E15. ...
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Cleveland Fed President Recommends Current Course

Posted: April 2, 2012 at 2:09 pm

Sandra Pianalto, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said today that it is her belief that the Fed’s “accommodative monetary policy has put the economy on a path, ...
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Obama Speech Attacks Oil & Gas Subsidies (XOM, VLO, CHK, FSLR, USO)

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 11:34 am

In a "we versus them" speech today, President Obama again called for the end of subsidies for oil and gas companies.  His speech talked about the global opportunities that the ...
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Environmental Protection is a Pocketbook Issue

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 7:19 am

In 1991, 71% of Americans thought it was more important to protect the environment than to foster economic growth. Only 20% of Americans thought economic growth was more important. In ...
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Obama Administration OKs Alaska, East Coast Off-shore Exploration (RDS-A)

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 2:43 pm

The US Department of the Interior has approved the spill plan proposed by Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A), a nearly final step before the company can proceed with exploratory ...
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Supreme Court Tackles Individual Mandate

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 12:54 pm

The US Supreme Court this morning listened to arguments related to the individual mandate provision of the health care reform act, or Obamacare. The court has three clear options: one, ...
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SIRIUS XM Antitrust Suit… Prelude to Margin Squeeze, or a Price Hike (SIRI)

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 9:31 am

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is in the news after it filed a complaint against SoundExchange, Inc. and American Association of Independent Music ("A2IM").  The suit alleges that these two ...
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Texas Manufacturing Survey Steady

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 11:06 am

The Dallas Fed today released its report on Texas manufacturing, indicating that the activity level in February was equal to that in January. The current state of manufacturing, as indicated ...
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National Economic Activity Survey Down

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 10:58 am

The national activity index for the month of February fell to -0.09 from +0.33 in January according to today’s report from the Chicago Fed. The index measures US economic activity ...
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Arena Files for European Drug Review (ARNA, VVUS, OREX)

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 10:42 am

Drug maker Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) announced that its application to sell its lorcaserin weight-loss drug in Europe has been accepted by the Europe Medicines Agency. This is the ...
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Fed President Bullard Rejects More Stimulus

Posted: March 23, 2012 at 10:09 am

St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said in a speech this morning that the macroeconomic policy actions the Fed took to stimulate the economy at the start ...
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