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Germany seen risking WTO challenge over shortselling
* WTO rules allow limits to financial services access
* But only for prudential or financial stability reasons
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think-tank specialising in trade issues said on Thursday. The European Centre for International Political Economy
(ECIPE) said the move could mean that Germany was flouting its
commitments in the WTO on market access in financial services. WTO rules focus on liberalisation rather than regulation,
but require that regulation treats all countries equally. Despite that vibram 5 finger shoes, there is a large waiver — known as the
“prudential carve-out” — that allows members to take special
measures to ensure the integrity and stability of their
financial systems. But Germany’s ban on naked short-selling of euro-denominated
government bonds, sovereign CDs on those bonds and shares in
Germany’s 10 leading financial institutions did not fall into
this category, ECIPE said in a media brief. “The German ban is not a prudential regulation, which
typically aims at protecting depositors and protects financial
systems from excessive risk-taking nike jordan heels,” it said. ECIPE cited doubts about the move’s scope for increasing
stability on the German market. It also said the ban had been imposed in the worst possible
way from the point of view of WTO rules — a unilateral measure
without any consultation with other countries. “In short FiveFingers Men’s KSO, the ban is against the founding principles of the
WTO and the European Union — to stop disguised or poorly
designed domestic regulations that restrict trade, worsen
economic crisis and spread it to neighbours,” it said. A challenge to Germany would involve a dispute against the
European Union as a whole, since Brussels represents member
states on trade. Short selling is a trade that bets a price will fall. Naked
short selling is when a trader sells a financial instrument
without first borrowing the instrument or ensuring that it can
be borrowed. The Brussels-based think-tank has built a reputation for
spotting the trade litigation implications of economic or
commercial moves. In November last year it revealed that China’s
censorship of the Internet was open to challenge at the WTO,
although no formal challenge has yet surfaced.
(Reporting by Jonathan Lynn; Editing by Stephanie Nebehay)
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CORRECTED-Developers of cancer pill tout biopsy/tweak method
(Corrects spelling of company throughout to Plexxikon from
Plexxicon)
* Pre/post-treatment tests of tumors guide Plexxikon study * Drug to be tested first with Roche compound * Plexxikon expects phase 2 melanoma data out in November * Drug, diagnostic data to be submitted at same time By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Tests of tumor samples taken
before and after treatment with an experimental melanoma pill
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an approach that may boost the drug’s chances of success and
aid in developing others, company researchers said on Tuesday. Plexxikon’s drug PLX4032 has already proven its prowess in
an early clinical trial of melanoma patients, shrinking
advanced melanoma tumors in 81 percent of 32 patients with the
deadly and hard-to-treat skin cancer. “Looking at the biopsies from patients before treatment and
two weeks after, we show we can inhibit the target directly in
the tumor,” said Gideon Bollag of the California-based
biotechnology company, whose study appears in the journal
Nature. He said the drug had to almost completely block a chemical
pathway in the tumor cells to reduce the size of the tumors in
the melanoma patients. “Perhaps most surprisingly and interestingly jordan heels for women, we needed to
inhibit the target almost completely in order to demonstrate
tumor shrinkage in the melanomas of the patients.” Bollag said companies increasingly are looking at how drugs
change the molecular structure of tumors. Doing so can prevent
costly failures in bigger clinical trials. “To understand exactly how compounds are working, it’s
really important to analyze the biopsies,” Bollag said. Now the company is working closely with Roche (ROG.VX)to
develop a companion diagnostic test that will help identify
patients with what is called the BRAF mutation. These patients
are the most likely to benefit from the compound. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been working to
streamline the process for validating and approving diagnostic
tests that rely on markers in the body, such as a gene mutation
or proteins in the blood. “We think this might be the first example where the therapy
and the diagnostic go to the FDA at the same time,” Bollag
said. Kathleen Glaub, Plexxikon’s president, said the company is
using a similar research approach in phase 1 trials of its
other compound, which aims to treat cancers that have spread to
the bone, including breast cancer. “I think all of us in this industry have to figure out
different ways to develop drugs that are more efficient and
enable us to move development faster,” Glaub said in a
telephone interview. Plexxikon’s drug nike high heels, which is being co-developed by Roche,
only works in the 50 to 60 percent of melanoma patients who
have a specific mutation of the BRAF gene. And its effects are brief. In only two cases the cancer has
stayed away for at least a year, with the benefit to the others
lasting about six months, “Unfortunately, the cancer cells eventually figure out how
to rewire the signal in such a way that they bypass the action
of the drug,” Bollag said. He said the company is trying to understand the tumor
biology to see how to make the drug more effective, and they
plan to combine it with other drugs to try to prolong the
effect. The first such trial will likely combine PLX4032 with a
Roche drug called GDC-0973 that interferes with the MEK
signaling pathway, which is also attacked by PLX4032. Glaub said the company expects to present results of its
phase 2 study in November at an international melanoma
conference.
(Editing by Eric Walsh)
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