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Japan To Enter Indian Defense Market; Growing Indo-Japan Cooperation Worries Regional Giant China
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EU Moves Away From Austerity As Region Struggles With Recovery
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Tata Motors' Q4 2013: Company’s Auto Sales, Production Figures Show Just How Much Country’s Economy Has Decelerated
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Germany Close To Winning Fight To Keep State Control Over Volkswagen
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Paul Ryan, Leading Republican Fiscal Conservative, Endorses Call by Apple CEO Tim Cook To Repatriate Foreign Earnings, Provided The Tax On Such Earnings Is Cut
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Global Tablet Shipments To Exceed Laptops This Year, PCs In 2015: IDC
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Thomson Reuters Taps The Economist's CEO To Head News Division
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Switzerland Seeks To ‘Put The Past To Rest’ Regarding US Probes Into Swiss Banks That Help American Tax Cheaters
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Political Transition In Pakistan Causing Delay Of Iran-Pakistan Natural Gas Pipeline And Aggravating Pakistan's Energy Crisis
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IMF Drops China Growth Estimate, Warns About Country’s Rapid Credit Expansion
China, a major driver of global GDP growth, is now expected to grow by 7.75%, just one-quarter of a point over China's own 7.5% target.
China’s Public Debt Concerns Unfounded, Economist Says
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Chinese Meat Producer Shuanghui Group Buying Smithfield Foods For $4.7B, CFIUS Approval Not Certain
Smithfield Foods appears to have succumbed to activist shareholder pressure to return more value to investors.
OECD Cuts Global Growth Forecast; The U.S. Leads In Developed Democracies; Germany Leads In Contracting Euro Zone; Japan Growth Down From Last Year
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