by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 5, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee held a meeting for the first time since the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform. The goal is to figure out how the regulations will affect the global OTC market....
by Nick Kariuki & Xiaolan Tang | Oct 4, 2010 | Business & Tech
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Thousands gathered at Lincoln Memorial on Saturday (Austin Lewis/...
by Nick Kariuki & Xiaolan Tang | Oct 4, 2010 | Business & Tech, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Working mothers face pay gap in the workplace (Austin Lewis/...
by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 4, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Words better suited to a high school chemistry class than a high-level policy debate—terms such as praseodymium and dysprosium—have raised alarms around the world about the future of the alternative energy economy. Seventeen metals on the periodic...
by J. Okray | Sep 30, 2010 | Business & Tech, Environment
WASHINGTON — “With a mandate, ethanol tax credit subsidizes gasoline consumption, it subsidizes oil,” said Harry de Gorter, an adviser to the World Bank and World Trade Organization, during a presentation by the CATO Institute on Capitol Hill Thursday. “It...
by Yewon Kang | Sep 30, 2010 | Business & Tech
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair appeared at the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday.” (Photo Yewon Kang / MNS) WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other regulators told Congress...