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*Calls for better regulations in Colombia capital markets. BOGOTA, May 20- Colombia aims to "internationalize" its capital markets further in the coming years, attracting more foreign companies to its stock market and bring in overseas investors seeking to tap into higher yielding emerging markets, the head of the stock exchange said on Monday.
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*Calls for better regulations in Colombia capital markets. BOGOTA, May 20- Colombia aims to "internationalize" its capital markets further in the coming years, attracting more foreign companies to its stock market and bring in overseas investors seeking to tap into higher yielding emerging markets, the head of the stock exchange said on Monday.
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As of this year, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission subjects companies trading more than $8 billion in swaps to tough oversight unless they do so to hedge price swings in their day-to-day business.
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WASHINGTON, May 20- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments have been slow to act.
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The Supreme Court agrees to consider whether mutual fund employees are subject to the same whistleblower protections as those who work for publicly traded companies.
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Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher explains the importance of simplifying bank regulations.
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NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information.
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SAC said it may not be able to provider investors with frequent updates regarding the government insider-trading probe but there will be "more clarity" soon.
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NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off polling information to the bank's opponents.
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WASHINGTON, May 17- A divided U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street. U.S. law already requires the SEC to consider the impact regulations would have on competition, efficiency and capital formation.
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WASHINGTON, May 17- A divided U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street. U.S. law already requires the SEC to consider the impact regulations would have on competition, efficiency and capital formation.
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WASHINGTON, May 17- A divided U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street.
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NEW YORK-- Tesla Motors shares fell Friday as the electric car maker increased the size of its stock and note sales by nearly 17 percent. THE SPARK: Tesla disclosed in a regulatory filing that it now plans to sell 3.39 million shares in a public offering, and has priced them at $92.24 each, according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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PALO ALTO, Calif.-- Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. has increased the size of its stock and note sales by almost 17 percent, citing high demand from investors. The Palo Alto, Calif., company said in a regulatory filing on Friday that is now expects to gross $968 million from the sales, which will take place on May 22.
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LAS VEGAS-- Nevada regulators have approved Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.' s buyout of rival Ameristar Casinos Inc.. Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has said the acquisition would save it at least $40 million a year and boost earnings. Ameristar's holdings include casinos in Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Mississippi, Indiana and Nevada.
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BRUSSELS, May 17- EU antitrust regulators have given some of Google's rivals more time to study its proposals to settle anti-competitive complaints, which could provide more leverage to pry further concessions from the Internet search giant.
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MONTPELIER, Vt.-- The owner of a crude oil pipeline that runs between Maine and Montreal is asking Vermont environmental regulators to reconsider a ruling that would require a new review under the state's land-use planning law if the company seeks to move Canadian tar sands oil to Portland for possible shipment to markets across the world.
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*Unions oppose private piers at Ashdod, Haifa. *Israel's smallest port privatised in February. TEL AVIV, May 16- Israel is betting its economic future on high-tech exports but faces a low-tech bottleneck in state-owned seaports subject to work stoppages and slowdowns because of the enormous strength of their unions.
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Bart Chilton, Commodities Futures Trading Commission commissioner, discusses the CFTC's move to possibly regulate electronic platforms.
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Philip Souta, director at Business for New Europe and Pawel Swidlicki, analyst at Open Europe, talk about whether the U.K. can re-negotiate its membership in the European Union.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups, along with states such as Texas and Virginia, have filed nine petitions in recent weeks asking the justices to review four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.