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Two years ago, Sinochem, a Chinese chemicals maker, backed away from buying the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan for similar reasons.

The U.S. Department of Energy poured $535 million in loans into Solyndra, a solar panel maker backed by George Kaiser, a major Democratic donor.

NetSuite, a small-business-software maker backed by Lawrence J. Ellison of Oracle, added Billy Beane, the former big-league baseball player who is now general manager of the Oakland Athletics, to its board this month.

Leapfrog, an educational toy maker backed by Michael R. Milken, the former junk bond trader, and Lawrence J. Ellison, the head of the Oracle Corporation, said it was sued by Technology Innovations of West Henrietta, N.Y.

Hullabalu, the New York-based kids app maker backed by $1.8 million from SV Angel, Great Oaks and others, is today bringing its iPad storybook app to the iPhone.

Coda Automotive Inc., the Los Angeles-based electric-car maker backed by billionaire Philip Falcone, has filed for bankruptcy and will put itself up for sale.

Hence Mr Obama's $50 billion rescue of GM; and hence, too, the German government's financial backing for the sale of Opel, GM's European arm, to Magna, a Canadian parts-maker backed by a Russian state-owned bank.

Vacuum cleaner makers backed the new rules when the industry was consulted before their introduction.

Japanese and American car makers backed research into hybrid and electric cars, but the European commission was lobbied strongly by big German car makers BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler, to incentivise diesel.

There was an outcry on Wall Street, which has benefited from low rates, and the policy makers backed off, signaling that there would be no rate increase at this latest meeting.

And several hardware makers back the effort.