Category: Financial / Legal / Administrative / Political

Alternative form for executive director

An ADR is an indirect way for foreign stocks to trade on American exchanges. ADRs trade just like ordinary American stocks, and the exchanges provide us with the same data as for normal stocks.

PENRA was created & authorized to be the sole national authority responsible for managing the Palestinian energy sector, including but not limited to policy formulation, development, restructuring, & coordination. The Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority has the following objectives: Ensure that the electricity supply is delivered to citizens through developing and rehabilitating internal electricity networks and main electricity lines; Completing the Rural Electricity Project to provide electricity to all citizens; Rehabilitating the Gaza electricity generation station; Nationalization the high voltage transmission sector by creating the Palestine Electric Transmission Ltd (PEATL); Privatization of the distribution sector by creating several distribution companies in the Gaza Strip & the West Bank; Reduce the cost of electricity consumption through setting plans for interconnectivity with Arab regional electricity and gas networks and for procuring petroleum; Continuing work towards effective exploitation of the Gaza gas field off the Gaza coastline and using natural gas to generate electricity. Developing alternative energy sources, including renewable energy; improving the financial performance of the electricity sector by applying the Electricity Law, incorporating distribution companies, reducing net lending, and curbing illegal consumption.

Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974 as an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the United States. The agency’s mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Today, the CFTC assures the economic utility of the futures markets by encouraging their competitiveness and efficiency, protecting market participants against fraud, manipulation, and abusive trading practices, and by ensuring the financial integrity of the clearing process. Through effective oversight, the CFTC enables the futures markets to serve the important function of providing a means for price discovery and offsetting price risk. The Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (formerly the Energy Markets Advisory Committee) was created in 2008 to advise the Commission on important new developments in energy and environmental futures markets that may raise new regulatory issues, and the appropriate regulatory response to ensure market integrity and competition, and protect consumers. The committee has a charter regarding energy and environmental markets