The influence of Russia's regional energy trade has led to a sense of local uneasiness as to the foreign countries' influence.

Mr. Gordon, 27, admitted creating a phony energy trade between Merrill and an offshore company he incorporated.

In others, they had announced energy trades that did not really exist, increasing their reported sales.

The accounting rule in question required Enron to "mark to market" the value of its energy trades.

The 2000 law built on a 1993 ruling by the futures commission that exempted energy trades.

The economic value of energy trades - particularly deals providing for the delivery of electricity long in the future - is highly subjective.

Any transactions, like the 1999 energy trades, that cancel out any real economic effect will also be prohibited.

The group also provides brokerage services within carbon emission trade and energy trade.

In the first place, we have here a reasonable picture of the problems of energy trade in the context of foreign policy.

However, in the energy trade, the distinction between production and services is not always clear.