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Study to consider wine industry's future (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - Increased domestic and international competition has prompted a new study into the future direction of the wine industry.

FTC Says Oil Industry Did Not Manipulate Prices (Fox News) - An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission found no widespread effort by the oil industry to illegally manipulate prices following Hurricane Katrina.

Costello backs nuclear power industry (Sydney Morning Herald) - Acting Prime Minister Peter Costello has backed the development of a nuclear power industry in Australia whenever it becomes commercially viable. -

Fashion industry seeks trochus shell partnership (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Members of Italy's fashion industry are proposing a joint venture with a Kimberley Aboriginal community in northern Western Australia to increase its production of trochus shell.

Global Warming Hurts Spain's Vineyards, Wine Industry (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) - May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Global warming is killing vineyards in southern Spain, threatening a 2 billion-euro ($2.4 billion) wine industry and forcing grape growers to move to cooler climes of the Pyrenees.

An Industry in Denial Industry participants believe the costs of Reg NMS will be someone else's problem, but investors (Finance Technology Network) - Reg NMS is set to change the foundation of the securities industry -- that much is agreed upon. Most people also agree that this change represents a major industrywide spend.

An Industry in Denial (Wall Street and Technology) - Industry participants believe the costs of Reg NMS will be someone else's problem, but investors surely will pay.

Study to consider wine industry's future (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - Increased domestic and international competition has prompted a new study into the future direction of the wine industry. The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation and the Winemakers Federation of Australia are conducting the state of the industry study, which is to be released next year.

Fears for future of chicken industry (icWales) - THE British chicken industry is not financially sustainable, a report from NFU Cymru says. The NFU warns that the British chicken industry, worth £3bn and the strongest in Europe, will not survive in the current climate.

Pay-as-You-Live Insurance and Active Risk Management Will Help Industry Bridge to the Future (SYS-CON Media) - The worldwide Insurance Industry will engagein a series of bold transformations over the next 15 years, creating adramatically different set of products, services and business process, allin the name of value creation and long-term growth, according to anewly-released IBM global study.