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U.S. regulators need to accelerate their efforts beef up the rules governing "dark pool" trading platforms to better protect investors from poor trade execution and conflicts of interest, according to a new report released Tuesday.

A former wireless retail executive was sentenced to five months in prison Tuesday for selling confidential industry information to an analyst whose subsequent 2013 report on sales of BlackBerry Ltd's newest smartphone sent the company's stock price down.

Drugmaker Abbott Healthcare is challenging West Bengal's accusation that a sample of the company's cough syrup contained excessive levels of codeine, the second multinational to question India's regulatory testing regime in recent months.