"You have to understand that the timeline for European legislation is very long, and the market has moved on faster than the commission can act, " Susen Sarkar, senior analyst at Yankee Group Europe, told IDG.
Due to the concern that gas generation has grown rapidly and yet the rules for gas and power markets are different, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held regional hearings on market syncing issues in 2012.
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Divisions that had never before asked customers what they thought were ordered by Davis to commission independent market research to uncover and improve on product weaknesses.
But this is now drying up, because new rules imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission have shrunk the profits that market makers earn on the spread between buy and sell prices.
Nothing better symbolises the difficulties of achieving a single market than a recent argument between the European Commission and Parliament on the one hand and Europe's banking industry on the other over the cost of sending a small credit across a national border.
Edinburgh Airport is on the market, of course - forced there by the Competition Commission, which wants to see BAA's dominance reduced by breaking it up.
Led by some of China's toughest reformers, the commission has in recent months started cracking down on market fraud so hard that the bull market has faltered.
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier was questioned by MEPs on 15 February 2012 on why the Commission had not signed up to an international treaty to make it legal for blind and visually impaired people to make braille or large-print copies of published books.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is in the middle of a broad market review of their influence on the markets, whether they are getting special access that allows them to jump in front of other traders unfairly and whether they can make mistakes that pose big risks to market stability.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has set up a task force on global market sanctions.
The Commission says it expects to spend an extra 600m euros this year on market measures to support dairy farmers.
Traders have already been saying new individual stock circuit breaker rules at the exchanges create more inefficiencies than they solve, and now the Securities and Exchange Commission is considering tightening the noose more by seeking stricter trading obligations on market makers.
From then on, the commission's efforts to see full compliance with the ruling over market dominance became a bane to Ballmer, who would have preferred some sort of settlement over the issue as had been obtained with the United States Department of Justice in 2001.
Last year, for the first time in years, the Federal Communications Commission refused to state whether the mobile communications market was competitive in its annual report to Congress on the state of the cellular market.
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The move reflects the Commission's continuing frustration with the EU's telecommunications market, where liberalization may exist on paper, but where competitors are still having trouble breaking into new markets because the incumbents remain not only the dominant service provider, but also control the infrastructure and networks which competitors must use.
Not only are they being pushed from pillar to post in Russia by a resurgent Vladimir Putin, keen to divide and (ultimately) rule upstream arrangements, the Europe Commission has launched a formal investigation into the Russian gas group for alleged market manipulation following raids on Gazprom offices last year.
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Washington is backed up by European Commission competition officials, who are afraid that the merger would spoil competition on the European internet market as well.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday it has approved new circuit breaker rules in response to the market disruption that took place on May 6.
When pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies Express Scripts and Medco announced their merger on 21 July 2011, the stock market was not optimistic about the companies obtaining antitrust approval from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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