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...In the US, there will be a rise in preventable maternal deaths in those states implementing more restrictive regulations....
...Canada has agreed to join a US deal with Mexico to revamp the pact, ending months of uncertainty over trade in North America that had been hanging over the economies of all three countries...
...Thursday 21:00 BST....
...53,979 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.81% at 14,540 Topix up +0.15% at 1,192 Hang Seng down -0.13% at 22,948 Shanghai Composite up +0.63% at 2,252 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.44% at 533.00 CNX Nifty up +0.04% at...
...A purchase of ICBC shares yesterday raised Temasek’s stake to 7.04% from 6.71%. The Singaporean state-owned investment company also bought a 10% stake in Markit yesterday....
...China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington...
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...unchanged 0.00 at 1,540 Copper (Comex) down -1.25 at 422.75 10-year government bond yields (%) US 3.25 UK 3.42 Germany 3.27 Japan 1.20 CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe n/abps at...
...s currency problems....
...CFM International, one of the world’s major aircraft engine makers, is a joint venture between Snecma — a subsidiary of Safran Group of France — and General Electric of the United States....
...US asked India for more data on fighter setback India has agreed to provide the United States with more information about its decision last week to drop two U.S. defence companies from an $11bn fighter competition...
...Halliburton, the oil-services giant, said profits were up 83 per cent, though it warned of future disruptions related to the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico....
...the US private equity firm in 2006 for $810m....
...US ‘protectionist’ tone triggers disquiet in India A delegation of Indian IT companies will visit the United States next week to raise their concerns over what they fear are protectionist measures that could...
...Asian equity markets tumbled in reaction to the US House of Representatives rejection of a Bush administration’s $700bn bail-out plan for the financial industry while earlier US stocks suffered their biggest...
...However, Mr Simmonds said problems in the US credit markets did run deep and could limit the ability of equities to recover sharply and limit the carry trade’s ability to stage a “v-shaped” recovery....
...Gold rose to a new 23-year high of $508.25 a troy ounce before easing to $506.70/507.50, up from its late quote of $503.00/503.80 in New York on Friday. Gold hit $509.20 an ounce in February 1983....
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