Ablynx: new data announced in rheumatoid arthritis for potential biobetter ozoralizumab

Ablynx is looking for a new partner to progress the development of anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) pipeline drug ozoralizumab, which utilizes novel "nanobody" technology to achieve some differentiating factors in this profitable but crowded market. The new results are promising, but true differentiation among anti-TNF brands is hard to achieve.

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ABN Amro: building in Belgium

Dutch finance group ABN Amro [AAB.AS] is continuing to pursue a strategy of buying small domestic private banks to further its European ambitions. Building on its existing private banking operations in Belgium, this latest acquisition will expand the bank's reach in an increasingly valuable onshore market.

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ABN Amro: standalone portal doesn't make sense

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AGF: back to basics

AGF [AGFP.PA] has announced the successful conclusion of negotiations with ING Group [ING.AS] over the sale of AGF Belgium. AGF is now expected to concentrate on its core business. A lack of financial resources and the dominance of the big players mean that more and more smaller players are likely to return to their core business.<BR />

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Ahold/Delhaize: a merger of convenience

Dutch retailer Ahold and smaller rival Delhaize are in talks, with a merger between the two seen by many as the most plausible outcome. Ahold's and Delhaize's business operations may well be split along geographical lines, with Ahold running a future European division while Delhaize could affect the turnaround of Ahold's underperforming US arm.

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Becks: Interbrew goes shopping again

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Belgacom/KPN: a deal could work

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Belgian energy regulator: threatening retail price caps

Having released the results of its investigation into Electrabel's new gas and electricity price changes, Belgian electricity and gas regulator the CREG has made the surprising recommendation that temporary price caps should be considered. The CREG has also requested jurisdictional competence to deal with retail price matters (currently, it only has authority over transportation and distribution).

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Belgian energy: monopolists still hold sway

Belgium's energy regulators have concluded that considerable progress still needs to be made towards liberalizing the energy sector due to the dominant position of former monopolies. Given that, by the standards of its neighbors, the Belgian energy market is in many ways relatively accessible to new entrants, the regulators should now act to overcome the remaining impediments to real competition.

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Belgian exchange could be missing link for Benelux energy market

A power bourse is being established in Belgium. As Datamonitor's Mikhail Masokin explains, after its launch in the second half of 2005, the exchange will provide a missing link in the emerging single energy market in Benelux and, eventually, across the key North-Western region of continental Europe.

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