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Brazil prosecutors seek to force Vale, BHP to pay off Samarco’s debt -court document
By Carolina Mandl and Marta Nogueira SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors asked a bankruptcy court on Wednesday to compel miners Vale SA and BHP Group Ltd to fully pay off their ...
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Dollar hits 9-month high as Fed on track to taper this year
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar rose to a nine-month high versus the euro and Australian and New Zealand currencies on Thursday, with Federal Reserve policy makers mostly in agreement t...
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Federal judge throws out U.S. approval of ConocoPhillips Alaska oil project
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday reversed the U.S. government's approval of ConocoPhillips' planned $6 billion Willow oil development in Alaska, citing problems with its environmental analysis...
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U.S. appeals court upholds Texas ban on second-trimester abortion procedure
(Reuters) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a Texas law banning the most common abortion procedure used by doctors for terminating second-trimester pregnancies, overturning a...
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Oil extends losses on pandemic fears and rise in U.S. gasoline stockpiles
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Crude prices extended their losses into a sixth day on Thursday, hovering near 3-month lows, hurt by growing fears over slower fuel demand amid a spike in COVID-19 c...
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Australia’s red-hot housing to get hotter, affordability to worsen – Reuters poll
By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) - Red-hot Australian house prices will heat up even more this year and next thanks to super-low borrowing costs and a lack of available homes, making affordability ...
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Nearly all small UK manufacturers face costs headache – survey
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly all small British manufacturers are struggling with rising costs, according to a survey on Thursday that showed widespread worries over recruitment and logistics caused by th...
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AstraZeneca CEO Soriot tops FTSE 100 pay-out charts in 2020 – report
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca, was Britain's highest paid company boss in 2020, a year when the average FTSE 100 leader sa...
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Japan’s factory mood hits 3-1/2-year high – Reuters Tankan
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Confidence among Japanese manufacturers hit a more than three-and-half-year high in August and service-sector sentiment turned positive, the Reuters Tankan poll sh...
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British consortium formed to develop solid state EV batteries
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - A group of seven British organisations including battery materials firm Johnson Matthey, start-up Britishvolt and Oxford University said on Thursday they had formed a ...
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