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Published online 12 December 2007 | Nature 450, 935 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450935d

News in Brief: Business

Market watch

The inexorable rise of global renewable energy stocks — as measured by the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (symbol NEX on the US stock exchange) juddered to a halt last month.

Specialists attribute the reverse to doubts about pending US energy legislation as well as to the global credit crunch, which has hit stock markets in general.

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