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Speculators OPEC leaders have repeatedly called for limits on speculation in oil-futures markets, in which investors bet on which way oil prices will go. Oil officials blame speculators for volatile prices, and some financial analysts agree. "It is market psychology which is propping up prices," Morse says. If investors...
After he lost his job, Brian went to the Roxboro office of North Carolina's Employment Security Commission and met with Roxie Russell, the branch manager. She suggested that he go back to school. Even if Brian could afford it, he doesn't want to start a two-year M.B.A...
Fishermen remain unconvinced. José López hasn't had time to read the commission's agreement but is concerned with it nonetheless. President of a group called Friends of the Tuna - which unites practitioners of the almadraba, an ancient, artisanal method of tuna fishing in the Mediterranean - L...
But it was the European Commission's powerful Fisheries Department that made this latest agreement possible. The Fisheries Department has long resisted calls for a ban. This time, though, the available statistics made a moratorium seem at least provisionally necessary, says spokeswoman Nathalie Charbonneau. "We have management and recovery plans...
Charbonneau says the commission is still considering other options - like the possibility that ICCAT's newest data, which is scheduled to be released in November, will show enough recovery to make the ban unnecessary. But given ICCAT's track record of failing to evenly enforce its own limitations, WWF's...