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Oil lifts stocks off lows, yen and low-risk debt in favor

LONDON (Reuters) – Glimmers of recovery in oil prices on Wednesday lifted European stock markets off their lows and dimmed the allure of the Japanese yen, gold and ultra-low-risk government debt.

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China seeks food security with $43 billion bid for Syngenta

By Ludwig Burger BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) – China made its boldest overseas takeover move yet when state-owned ChemChina agreed a $43 billion bid for Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta on Wednesday. The largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm, announced by both companies, will accelerate a shake-up in global agrochemicals and marks a setback for U.S. firm Monsanto, which failed to buy Syngenta last year. …

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OPPO, Vivo snap at Apple’s heels in China mobile market

By Miyoung Kim and Yimou Lee SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Beyond China few may have heard of OPPO or Vivo, but these local handset vendors are rising up the rankings in the world's largest smartphone market, using local marketing savvy and strong retail networks in lower-tier cities. Industry experts say these cities – there are more than 600 of them and some are bigger than many European capitals – are the next smartphone battlefield as China'…

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Iraq’s southern oil exports running at 3.3 million bpd, unaffected by clashes

Iraq's exports from its southern region have been running at an average daily rate of 3.297 million barrels per day (bpd) so far this month, higher than December's average and unaffected by tribal clashes, an oil company executive said on Saturday.All the fields are running normally, state-run South Oil Co.'s deputy director general Salah Mahdi told Reuters in an interview in Basra. “The security situation is very good, I don't see any impact on our oil operations,” he …

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As world markets drop, Fed officials try to shake it off

SOMERSET, N.J./SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – As U.S. stock indexes dropped in volatile trading and oil crashed below $30 a barrel on Friday, Federal Reserve officials stuck to a well-worn script: day-to-day financial market swings do not drive monetary policy. At the same time…

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China’s economy grew by around 7 percent in 2015, services made up half of GDP – Premier

China's gross domestic product (GDP) totaled more than $10 trillion in 2015 and the economy grew by around 7 percent, with the services sector accounting for half of GDP, Premier Li

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China says AIIB up and running early in the new year

The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been formally established and is expected to be operational early next year, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. The bank's establishment came after 17 funding members of the AIIB, which account for just over 50 percent of its share capital, ratified an agreement on the bank, state television quoted Finance Minister Lou Jiwei as saying. First proposed by President Xi Jinping less than two years ago, the bank has become one of China's biggest foreign policy successes.

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Oil heads for third straight weekly loss as supply weighs

By Karolin Schaps LONDON (Reuters) – Oil edged down on Friday as bearish sentiment driven by oversupply rattled the market and was set to lead prices to a third straight weekly drop, the longest losing streak in four months. Russia, one of the world's top oil producers, said on Friday it was not considering coordinating its output policy with OPEC members, adding the organisation was not exerting

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Prospects still slim for major global economic pickup

By Ross Finley, Silvio Cascione and Rahul Karunakar LONDON/BRASILIA/BENGALURU (Reuters) – The world economy may be set for another year like 2015, with modest growth in developed economies offsetting persistent weakness elsewhere but generating very little inflation and keeping interest rates low. The U.S. Federal Reserve's long-awaited rise in …

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Twitter warns some users of possible ‘government’ hacking

Emails say 'state-sponsored' hackers might be trying to steal users' phone numbers, email addresses and IP addresses.

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