UN FOOD CHIEF URGES CRISIS ACTION
The conduct of a UN World Food Programme says obligatory movement is indispensable to assistance a bad cope with mountainous prices.
BRAZIL PRESIDENT DEFENDS BIOFUELS
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rejects allegations which biofuels have been obliged for rises in tellurian food prices.
UN WARNS ON SOARING FOOD PRICES
Dramatic rises in general food prices have been melancholy millions of people in bad countries, a UN warns.
CARBON TRADE SCHEME ‘IS FAILING’
The EU's CO trade devise has lifted physical phenomenon prices as well as unsuccessful to cut hothouse gases, a BBC is told.
BIOTECH HOLDRS (AMEX: BBH) TAKES A HIT
May 21, 2007 The exchange-traded fund Biotech HOLDRS (AMEX: BBH) fell off a cliff in May, with share prices losing some 7% in only three weeks. With core positions in Genentech (NYSE: DNA), Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB), is it safe to buy Biotech HOLDRS yet? Ina strong stock market ...ENVIRONMENTAL WARNING ON BIOFUELS
The drive to switch over to biofuels could lead to rising food prices and deforestation, a report warns.DEAL FOR RELIANT ENERGY ADMITS NO GUILT IN FRAUD CASE
Nearly three years after then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that an energy company had been charged with conspiring to jack up electricity prices during California's 2001 power crisis, the case ended Tuesday with deferred prosecution agreements. The deals dismiss charges against Reliant Energy and four of its traders, if they stay out of trouble for two years. The company must also pay a $22.2 million fine. The case, which had appeared to be a slam dunk for the prosecution, had its oddities.A GATEKEEPER FOR THE US DRUG INDUSTRY
At prolonged final, a US is deliberation a supervision physique, identical to a UK's National Institute for Health as good as Clinical Excellence( NICE), to examination justification upon that drug work good as good as either they have been cost-effective. A due Comparative Effectiveness Board( CEB) would examination a curative industry's reason upon drug prices as good as stop it peddling common medicines.
OIL COMPANIES DISCUSS ENERGY CHALLENGES
(AP) -- With dwindling oil supplies, pollution concerns and the ever-present threat of gas prices soaring again, talk of new and better ways to fuel our cars, heat and cool our homes, and power our factories has never been greater. What's more, the conversation is emanating increasingly from a source that's been surprisingly quiet until recently - the oil companies themselves.DOJ JOINS LAWSUIT FILED OVER ALLEGED PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE INFLATION
The Department of Justice has assimilated a whistleblower legal case filed opposite Ohio-based Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane, a auxiliary of Connecticut-based Boehringer Ingelheim which manufactures general medications, over allegations which a association arrogant prices reported to sovereign illness word programs for multiform treatments, [ click couple for full essay]
