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Jun 18, 2018
* Futures down: Dow 0.88 pct, S&P 0.73 pct, Nasdaq 0.83 pct
(Adds comment, details, updates prices)
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Allianz Global Investors, a unit of
Germany-based Allianz SE, said on Monday it had named
Gavin Counsell as senior portfolio manager within the
multi-asset team.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Rent-A-Center Inc will be
acquired by an affiliate of buyout firm Vintage Capital
Management in a deal valued at $1.37 billion, including debt,
the U.S. furniture retailer said on Monday.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Canadian auto parts supplier Magna
International Inc said on Monday it would set up two
joint ventures with Beijing Electric Vehicle Co to build
electric cars in China.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals
International said on Monday that U.S. health
regulators had declined to approve its lotion to treat plaque
psoriasis, citing questions related to certain data.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. hotel owner LaSalle Hotel
Properties on Monday sided with Blackstone Group
LP's all-cash offer to buy the company, as it looks to
thwart Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's takeover bid.
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Jun 18, 2018
* GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: http://tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl
(Updates with official prices)
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - General Electric will cut 1,200
jobs in Switzerland at its troubled power generation business,
about 200 fewer than its original proposal, the U.S. industrial
conglomerate said on Monday.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. hotel owner LaSalle Hotel
Properties on Monday sided with Blackstone Group
LP's all-cash offer to buy the company, as it looks to
thwart Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's takeover bid.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Canadian auto parts supplier Magna
International Inc said on Monday it would set up two
joint ventures with Beijing Electric Vehicle Co to build
electric cars in China.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Aviva Investors, the global asset
management business of Aviva Plc on Monday named Al
Denholm as chief investment officer for its new solutions unit.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - BOK Financial Corp said on
Monday it would buy smaller peer CoBiz Financial Inc in
a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1 billion to expand in
Arizona and Colorado.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas producer Baytex
Energy Corp said on Monday it would buy rival Raging
River Exploration Inc for about C$2.8 billion ($2.13
billion) to expand in the oil-rich Duvernay field in Alberta.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
(Adds context, updates figures)
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1130 GMT on Monday:
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Jun 18, 2018
* Volkswagen shares fall
(Adds analyst comment, background, shares)
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - W.P. Carey Inc said on Monday it
plans to buy commercial real estate owner Corporate Property
Associates 17 - Global Inc in a deal valued at about $6 billion,
making it one of the largest real estate investment trusts in
the United States.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Futures pointed to a lower opening for
Canada's main stock index on Monday, tracking global shares and
a slump in U.S. crude prices, on concerns of a spiraling trade
spat between United States and China.
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Jun 18, 2018
TEL AVIV, June 18 (Reuters) - Israel's DreaMed Diabetes said
on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for
marketing its Advisor Pro software to help manage diabetes
treatment.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Futures down: Dow 0.74 pct, S&P 500 0.62 pct, Nasdaq 0.7
pct
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - A unit of Chinese investment firm CITIC
Capital Holdings Ltd has offered to buy U.S.-listed biotech firm
China Biologic Products Holdings Inc.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas producer Baytex
Energy Corp said on Monday it would buy rival Raging
River Exploration Inc for about C$2.8 billion ($2.13
billion) to expand in the oil-rich Duvernay field in Alberta.
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Jun 18, 2018
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Consumer goods giant Unilever
, the world's second-biggest advertiser, is
cutting ties with digital media "influencers" that buy
followers, saying it wants to help make advertising more
transparent.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - The asset management arm of JPMorgan
Chase and Co on Monday said it had appointed Rob
O'Rahilly as global co-head of asset management solutions.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas producer Baytex
Energy Corp said on Monday it would buy rival Raging
River Exploration Inc for about C$2.8 billion ($2.13
billion).
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from
selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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Jun 18, 2018
PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - Airbus is considering
bumping up the range of the most powerful version of its A321
passenger jet in the latest effort to pre-empt a potential new
mid-market jet being studied by U.S. rival Boeing,
industry sources said.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - BOK Financial Corp said on
Monday it would acquire CoBiz Financial Inc in a
cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1 billion to expand in
Arizona and Colorado.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - BOK Financial Corp said on
Monday it would acquire CoBiz Financial Inc in a
cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1 billion.
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Jun 18, 2018
* GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: http://tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl
(Update throughout, changes dateline from MELBOURNE)
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Jun 18, 2018
MADRID, June 18 (Reuters) - Spain's second-biggest bank BBVA
on Monday said it had agreed to sell a property loan
portfolio in Spain with a gross value of 1 billion euros ($1.16
billion) as it further reduces its non-performing assets from
its balance sheet.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Audi says presumption of innocence applies to CEO
(Adds prosecutors' statement, Audi comment)
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Jun 18, 2018
* Impact "limited" due to small Canada market share -source
(Adds S.Korea wheat importer comment, details, bullets)
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Jun 18, 2018
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Escalating trade tensions
between Washington and Beijing knocked emerging stock markets to
a six-month low on Monday while a stronger dollar weighed on
currencies.
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Jun 18, 2018
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Global stocks slid on Monday and
U.S. oil prices slumped after U.S. President Donald Trump
announced tariffs on Chinese goods and Beijing responded with
similar measures in an escalating trade dispute.
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Jun 18, 2018
OSLO, June 18 (Reuters) - Norway's $1 trillion sovereign
wealth fund, the world's largest, has acquired a 25-percent
stake in the leasehold of a property in central London in a
joint venture with the Crown Estate, it said on Monday.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Three killed in Japan by falling walls, furniture in 6.1
quake
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Jun 18, 2018
FRANKFURT, June 18 (Reuters) - Audi Chief Executive Rupert
Stadler was arrested on Monday, a spokesman for parent company
Volkswagen said.
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Jun 18, 2018
SEOUL, June 18 (Reuters) - South Korea has suspended the
sale of wheat and flour from Canada after the North American
nation announced last week the discovery in mid-2017 of an
unapproved genetically modified trait in Alberta, the country's
food ministry said on Monday.
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Jun 18, 2018
FRANKFURT, June 18 (Reuters) - Germany's Innogy
said on Monday it had signed a deal with U.S.-based Birdseye
Renewable Energy giving it exclusive rights to 13 solar projects
with a total capacity of around 440 megawatts (MW).
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Jun 18, 2018
SEOUL, June 18 (Reuters) - South Korea has temporarily
suspended the sale of wheat and flour from Canada after the
discovery last summer of an unapproved genetically modified
trait in Alberta was announced on June 14, the country's food
ministry said on Monday.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - British packaging group DS Smith Plc
said on Monday full-year profit rose 21 percent, driven
by acquisitions, robust volumes in European markets and higher
e-commerce demand.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Calls Australian concerns "ill-informed", "not based on
facts"
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Jun 18, 2018
(Updates prices)
By Melanie Burton
MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - London copper slipped on
Monday to a near two-week low on pressure from a stronger
dollar, and as a holiday in China drained buying interest from
the market.
FUNDAMENTALS
* COPPER: London Metal Exchange copper had eased by
0.3 percent to $6,997 by 0705 GMT, following losses of 2.2
percent in the previous session. It earlier touched a near
two-week low of $6,978.
* HOLIDAY: The Shanghai Futures Exc
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Jun 18, 2018
OSLO, June 18 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor
has awarded drilling and well service contracts worth
30 billion Norwegian crowns ($3.68 billion) to Schlumberger
, Halliburton and Baker Hughes, it said
on Monday.
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Jun 18, 2018
(Repeats Friday's story without changes)
June 15 (Reuters) - Following are five big themes likely to
dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week
and the Reuters stories related to them.
1/KILLING QE SOFTLY
A three-day ECB forum on central banking kicks off on Monday
in Sintra, Portugal, but under a very different backdrop to last
year's summit. The ECB has warned markets it will end its
bond-buying programme by the end of the year, but it has also
pledged to keep
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 futures were down 0.2 percent
ahead of the cash market open.
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Jun 18, 2018
SINGAPORE, June 18 (Reuters) - China's threat to impose
duties on U.S. oil imports will hit a business that has soared
in the last two years, and which is now worth almost $1 billion
per month.
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Jun 18, 2018
TOKYO/SYDNEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Asian shares fell to a
2-1/2 week low on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump
cranked up trade tensions by going ahead with tariffs on Chinese
imports, prompting Beijing to immediately respond in kind.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Three killed in Japan by falling walls, furniture in 6.1
quake
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Jun 18, 2018
* Planes, services managed under one roof but reported
separately
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Jun 18, 2018
SINGAPORE, June 18 (Reuters) - China's threat to impose
duties on U.S. oil imports will hit a business that has soared
in the last two years, and which is now worth almost $1 billion
per month.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening 10
points higher at 7,644 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers.
* TESCO: The chairman of Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, on
Friday pledged to end the all-white make-up of its board of directors.
* VIRGIN MONEY-CYBG: CYBG is closing in an agreement to buy rival
Virgin Money to create a larger bank to take on Britain's biggest
lenders, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
* VEDAN
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Jun 18, 2018
MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Billionaire Carlos Slim has
had harsh words for Mexico's presidential frontrunner, saying
recently he is "concerned and afraid" about what leftist Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador might do if elected.
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Jun 18, 2018
SINGAPORE, June 18 (Reuters) - Google will invest $550
million in Chinese e-commerce powerhouse JD.com, part of
the U.S. internet giant's efforts to expand its presence in
fast-growing Asian markets and battle rivals including
Amazon.com.
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Jun 18, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the
Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
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Jun 18, 2018
* Calls Australian concerns "ill-informed", "not based on
facts"
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Jun 18, 2018
SINGAPORE, June 18 (Reuters) - Google will invest $550
million in Chinese e-commerce powerhouse JD.com, part of
the U.S. internet giant's efforts to expand its presence in
fast-growing Asian markets and battle rivals including
Amazon.com.
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Jun 17, 2018
* Media: Three killed by falling walls, furniture in 6.1
quake
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Jun 17, 2018
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FACTORS TO WATCH
10:00 am: Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu and Commerce Secretary Rita
Teaotia to inaugurate National Standards Conclave in New Delhi.
10.30 am: Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal to address CI
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Jun 17, 2018
TOKYO/SYDNEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on
Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump cranked up trade
tensions by going ahead with tariffs on Chinese imports,
prompting Beijing to immediately respond in kind.
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Jun 17, 2018
TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks fell on Monday
morning as an escalating trade dispute between the United States
and China stoked concerns about the impact on global demand,
triggering a sell-off in stocks such as makers of construction
equipment.
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Jun 17, 2018
* No irregularities reported at nuclear plants
(Recasts throughout with one dead, casualties feared, reports
of collapsed walls, quotes and other details)
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Colombia's President-elect Ivan
Duque, who swept aside leftist Gustavo Petro in Sunday's
election, pledged to unite his South American nation after a
divisive campaign but insisted he would change a landmark peace
accord with leftist rebels.
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Jun 17, 2018
MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - London copper slipped on
Monday and touched a near two-week low hit in the previous
session on pressure from a stronger dollar, while a holiday in
China drained buying interest from the market.
FUNDAMENTALS
* COPPER: London Metal Exchange copper eased by 0.2
percent on Monday to $7,006.50 by 0118 GMT, following losses of
2.2 percent in the previous session. It earlier touched a near
two-week low of $6,996 first hit on Friday.
* HOLIDAY:
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Jun 17, 2018
MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil Corp,
southeastern Australia's biggest gas supplier, is considering
importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help plug a looming gas
shortage from 2021 and protect its market share.
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Jun 17, 2018
BENGALURU, June 18 (Reuters) - Gold prices inched higher
early Monday after falling to a 5-1/2-month low in the previous
session, as a trade dispute between the two largest world
economies triggered safe-haven buying.
FUNDAMENTALS
* Spot gold had edged up 0.2 percent to $1,281.41 per
ounce by 0045 GMT. It touched its weakest since late-December at
$1,275.01 an ounce on Friday.
* U.S. gold futures for August delivery were up 0.4
percent at $1,284.10 per ounc
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Jun 17, 2018
TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters) - Asian shares retreated on Monday
after U.S. President Donald Trump cranked up trade tensions with
China by going ahead with tariffs on Chinese imports, prompting
Beijing to immediately respond in kind.
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Jun 17, 2018
TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary
magnitude of 5.9 hit western Japan on Monday but the top
government spokesman said there were no immediate signs of major
damage.
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Jun 17, 2018
MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's South32 Ltd
has bid $1.3 billion to take full control of Arizona
Mining, offering a hefty premium for the Toronto-listed
firm which is developing zinc, lead, manganese and silver
assets.
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Jun 17, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the
business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified
these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque
won Colombia's presidential election on Sunday, beating leftist
Gustavo Petro in a victory that will reassure investors but
raised the prospect of changes to a landmark peace accord with
Marxist rebels.
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Jun 17, 2018
SYDNEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Chinese telecommunications
company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has gone on the
offensive against Australian claims it poses a security risk,
issuing an open letter to the government saying that view was
"ill-informed."
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Jun 17, 2018
SYDNEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's relationship with
top trading partner China faces a testing two weeks as Canberra
prepares to pass laws designed to limit Beijing's influence in
domestic affairs amid pressure on some of its fastest growing
exports.
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Jun 17, 2018
* Teapot refiners swing into losses on stricter tax
collection
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Jun 17, 2018
June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's South32 Ltd on
Monday said it would acquire the remaining 83 percent of Toronto
listed company Arizona Mining for $1.3 billion in cash.
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Jun 17, 2018
TEXCOCO, Mexico, June 17 (Reuters) - Mexican presidential
front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday that if
he wins the July 1 election, he will aim to hold a public vote
before taking office on whether to finish building a $13 billion
airport outside Mexico City.
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque
won Colombia's presidential election on Sunday, beating leftist
Gustavo Petro in a victory that reassured investors but raised
the prospect of changes to a landmark peace accord with Marxist
rebels.
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Jun 17, 2018
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Consumer goods giant Unilever
, the world's second-biggest advertiser, is
cutting ties with digital media "influencers" that buy
followers, saying it wants to help make advertising more
transparent.
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Center-right candidate Ivan
Duque, who has vowed to alter a fragile peace deal, took a
commanding early lead in Colombia's presidential election on
Sunday with nearly half of polling stations counted.
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Colombians voted on Sunday in a
deeply divisive presidential runoff with the frontrunner vowing
to alter a fragile peace deal and his rival promising to
overhaul the economic model.
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Jun 17, 2018
* Woodside wants to build quickly as looks to start new
field
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Jun 17, 2018
RIO DE JANEIRO/HOUSTON, June 8 (Reuters) - U.S. oil producer
Chevron Corp has permanently assigned its Brazil country
chief to run its Venezuelan operations after the months-long
detention of two executives escalated tensions between the
OPEC-member nation and foreign oil firms.
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Jun 17, 2018
RIO DE JANEIRO/HOUSTON, June 8 (Reuters) - U.S. oil producer
Chevron Corp permanently assigned its Brazil country
chief to run its Venezuelan operations, three sources said this
week, after the months-long detention of two executives
escalated tensions between the OPEC-member nation and foreign
oil firms.
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Colombians vote on Sunday in a
deeply divisive presidential runoff with one candidate wanting
to alter a fragile peace deal and the other promising to
overhaul the economic model.
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Jun 17, 2018
NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Fears of tariffs and a
potential global trade war have jostled U.S. stocks over the
past few months, but there is a sense among investors that the
market is taking the drum beat of rhetoric and statements more
in stride.
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Jun 17, 2018
PARIS, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. company General Electric
should be fined if it does not create as many jobs at
Alstom as agreed when it purchased its energy subsidiary in
2015, a French government spokesman said on Sunday.
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Jun 17, 2018
NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - The rising tensions over
global trade policy are prompting some top-performing
international fund managers to look for the companies that can
emerge as winners.
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Jun 17, 2018
LOS ANGELES, June 17 (Reuters) - Broadway musical impresario
Andrew Lloyd Webber wowed more than 600 Emmy voters on a recent
Monday night in Hollywood, playing piano as acclaimed singer
Sara Bareilles performed a song from NBC's production of his hit
rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar."
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Jun 17, 2018
BOGOTA, June 17 (Reuters) - Colombians vote on Sunday in a
deeply divisive presidential runoff that pits candidates
offering polar opposite views and has stirred fears the winner
will upset a fragile peace process or derail the economy.
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Jun 16, 2018
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - A division of Germany's Siemens
has been awarded a contract worth about 1.5 billion
pounds ($2 billion) to design and build 94 new trains for the
Piccadilly Line on London's metropolitan train network, known as
the Tube.
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Jun 16, 2018
SHANGHAI, June 16 (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics
manufacturer Foxconn said it would establish its North American
corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following the
purchase of a building in the city's downtown area.
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Jun 16, 2018
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - A division of Germany's Siemens
has been awarded a contract worth about 1.5 billion
pounds ($2 billion) to design and build 94 new generation trains
for the Piccadilly Line on London's metropolitan train network,
known as the Tube.
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Jun 16, 2018
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens has
been awarded a contract worth about 1.5 billion pounds ($2
billion) to design and build 94 new generation trains for the
Piccadilly Line on London's metropolitan train network known as
the Tube.
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Jun 15, 2018
WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - Two former executives of
Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc were charged in
an indictment unsealed on Friday for allegedly participating in
an accounting and securities fraud scheme that resulted in a
loss of more than $245 million in shareholder value, the U.S.
Justice Department said.
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Jun 15, 2018
LONDON/TOKYO, June 15 (Reuters) - Britain's Centrica and
Japan's Tokyo Gas aim to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from
Anadarko Petroleum's $20 billion project in Mozambique, the
first joint procurement deal designed to defuse risks facing the
buyers in their respective markets.
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Jun 15, 2018
June 15 (Reuters) - The staff of the U.S. International
Trade Commission on Friday recommended that a trade judge find
that Apple Inc infringed at least one of Qualcomm Inc's
patents, a move that could lead to blocking the import
of some iPhones.
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Jun 15, 2018
SAO PAULO, June 15 (Reuters) - China's State Power
Investment Corp is likely to deliver a bid for
Brazil's fourth-largest hydroelectric dam as soon as next month,
two people with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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Jun 15, 2018
SAO PAULO, June 15 (Reuters) - State-controlled Banco do
Brasil SA said on Friday it will pay $202.4 million
to increase its stake in Argentina's Banco Patagonia SA
after some shareholders exercised their right to sell
the shares.
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Jun 15, 2018
SANTIAGO, June 15 (Reuters) - Chile's antitrust regulator
FNE said on Friday it would open an investigation into the
effects on the market of Chinese miner Tianqi Lithium Corp's
purchase last month of a 24 percent stake in SQM
, one of the world's top lithium producers.
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