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Asian markets grapple with Evergrande fallout, eye China power crunch
By Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian shares mainly drifted lower Tuesday as investors continued to fret over China Evergrande Group's unsolved debt crisis and eyed the potential impact of a wi...
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China’s industrial profit growth slows for sixth month in Aug
BEIJING (Reuters) - Profits at China's industrial firms grew at a weaker pace in August from a year earlier, slowing for a sixth consecutive month, as manufacturers struggled with high commodity price...
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Gaming company Kepler raises $120 million from China’s NetEase
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Kepler Interactive, a game publisher co-owned and run by developers, on Tuesday said it got $120 million in funding from Chinese gaming firm NetEase Inc. Th...
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Oil eases as investors take profit after 5-day rally
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil markets eased on Tuesday after a five-day rally as investors took profits on fears that higher prices may weaken fuel demand, though market sentiment remained fi...
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U.S. citizens blocked from leaving China return home after three years
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two American siblings prevented from leaving China since 2018 returned to the United States over the weekend, according to a U.S. official, their release by B...
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Activision Blizzard, U.S. employment watchdog reach agreement in sexual harassment and discrimination case
By Sabahatjahan Contractor (Reuters) - Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Monday they had reached an agreement to settle claims...
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Yen weakens to 111 per dollar as U.S. Treasury yields soar
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The yen traded near an almost three-month low to the dollar and reached a two-week trough versus the euro on Tuesday, as rising bond yields in the U.S. and Europe l...
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World Bank says Delta variant slowing economic growth in East Asia and Pacific
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The East Asia and Pacific region's recovery has been undermined by the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, which is likely slowing economic growth and increasing inequa...
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U.S. murders soar nearly 30% in 2020, FBI reports
(Reuters) - The number of murders in the United States rose nearly 30% in 2020 and overall violent crime rose for the first time in four years, the FBI said in its annual crime report on Monday, in a ...
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California becomes 8th U.S. state to make universal mail-in ballots permanent
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California on Monday became the eighth, and by far the largest, U.S. state to make universal distribution of vote-by-mail ballots permanent, a practice that bec...
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