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Drug plan administrators may also apply their own pricing rules outside of that set by national pricing agencies.

Yuri also submits images to more traditional high priced agencies such as Cultura Images and Tetra Images.

A spokesman for Platts said: "We share IOSCO's interest in transparent and efficient commodity markets, and we are happy to cooperate with the taskforce as it continues its review of the pricing agencies."

Sempra's was one of the last classic short squeezes in the North Sea Brent market before pricing agency Platts introduced additional types of crude into its benchmark methodology, making it all but impossible for a single trader to buy an entire month's worth of crude.

D24 DRUG PRICE AGENCY SCUTTLED In a concession to the biotechnology industry, the chairman of a Congressional committee decided to drop a Clinton proposal for a Federal agency to review the "reasonableness" of new drug prices.