Weakening data exclusivity rules would put a rapid stop to such post-approval research and much of the pre-approval research too.
While housing affordability which fell 4.6 points to a reading of 132.6 in the second quarter, according to the National Association of Realtors-and weakening data on the overall health of the U.S. economy remain concerns, we share Alan Greenspan's view that "there's no evidence that one can see that the fairly significant strength in the housing market is in any way impeded".
Fed Chair Janet Yellen told lawmakers on Thursday that the cold weather had played a role in the weakening data.
Moves towards data localisation, or the Balkanisation of the internet, risk stifling the competition, innovation and trade which produce better services for consumers, and can weaken data security," it writes.
Yet, the government, or at least the FBI, wants to establish precedents that would weaken data security and create laws that would make unbreakable encryption an illegal substance, like cocaine.
Beyond that, however, is the larger issue of whether the government can order companies to weaken data security in general and, more specifically, whether there can continue to exist in the U.S. encryption to which the government cannot obtain access through the courts.
Lower deployment in insecure provinces means inequitable maternal healthcare provision, weakened data reliability, and potentially underestimated mortality.
The S.& P. 500, which has been hurt by weakening economic data, is about to face another barrier: the election-year calendar.
In March, the Conservative peer, regarded by many as a sage on the economy, predicted the toughest trading conditions since the financial crisis on the back of weakening economic data and evidence Britons were choosing to spend spare cash on eating out and holidays rather than a new wardrobe.
Certainly, the recent downgrade of the United States' debt by Standard & Poor's was a catalyst, but so was an array of bad news and bad feeling having to do with the European debt crisis, weakening economic data here and abroad, and the subsequent likelihood of recession.
Everyone is worried about emerging markets, Fed tapering, rich valuations and weakening economic data.
