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IKEA to recall 1.7 million chests, dressers in China: watchdog

Swedish furniture company IKEA Group [IKEA.UL] said it would recall 1.66 million chests and dressers in China over concerns the drawers could pose a danger to children if not properly fixed to walls, China's safety regulator said on Tuesday. The recall covers MALM chests or dressers manufactured from 1999 to 2016, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in a statement posted on …

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Exclusive: Japan government to cut inflation forecasts, gloomier on outlook than BOJ

Japan's government is expected to cut its consumer inflation forecast for the current fiscal year and produce an estimate for fiscal 2017 that is much lower than the central bank's 2 percent target, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday. In draft forecasts to be finalised on Wednesday, the…

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Global shares gain as Brexit tensions ease amid stimulus hopes

Europe's STOXX 600 rose 0.5 percent, helped by gains in Daimler and Unicredit , while sterling jumped 1.1 percent against the dollar, pulling further from a 31-year low hit last week. In Britain, interior minister Theresa May was set to become prime minister on Wednesday, offering some relief from the political uncertainty that has dogged the market since the country voted to leave the European Union last month. “U.S. real interest rates are now negative.

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Oracle ordered to pay HP $3 billion in Itanium case

A California jury ordered Oracle Corp to pay Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co $3 billion in damages in a case over HP's Itanium servers, an Oracle spokeswoman said on Thursday. The Itaniuum processor is made by Intel Inc . In the first phase of trial in 2012, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that there had been a contract.

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Bond yields sink as central banks head for easier policy

The prospect of further cuts in interest rates and bond-buying to support a fractured global economy kept stock markets on the up in Europe and Asia on Friday, and drove U.S. and European government bond yields to their lowest in years. Signs that the world's big central banks will go even easier on monetary conditions, extending …

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