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Email campaign asks McDonald’s to take U.S. antibiotic curbs global

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A charity looking to fight the rise of dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria on Thursday asked the public to help convince McDonald's restaurants around the world to stop serving meat and milk from animals raised with routine use of medically important antibiotics. A week after the world's biggest fast-food company took that step with poultry at its U.S. restaurants, U.K.-based ShareAction launched an online campaign enabling people to email McDonald's Corp CEO Steve Easterbrook. The group, which…

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Electronic Marlboro sucks Japanese smokers away from Japan Tobacco

By Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) – Marlboro maker Philip Morris International says its e-cigarette has rapidly captured close to 3 percent of Japanese tobacco sales, making inroads into a market Japan Tobacco (JT) relies on for 40 percent of its profit. In what may be an early vindication of Philip Morris's e-cigarette strategy, the iQOS accounted for 2.2 percent of Japan's tobacco sales in the quarter ended June 30, a company spokesman said.

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Fed should raise interest rates this year, Williams says

The Federal Reserve should raise interest rates further this year, a top U.S. central banker said in an interview published on Thursday, reflecting improved labor market conditions and the likelihood that inflation is heading higher. “As the economy gets closer to its goals, we can again pull our foot off the…

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Fed rate hike ‘makes sense’, says U.S. central banker

Now that the United States is closing in on full employment and inflation is likely to rise to target levels, the “next step” should be to start gradually increasing rates, a top U.S. central banker said on Saturday. “I do think it…

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