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Markets expected the interest-rate increase and gradual further hikes after Federal Reserve officials signaled them in recent weeks.

The display technology uses smaller pixels and doesn't require a backlight. But low manufacturing yields make it difficult to use for mass production.

The court said sharing a single name was a central aspect of the Japanese family unit, but it struck down a law prohibiting women from remarrying within six months of a divorce.

Despite last week's Paris climate deal, the two countries are set to add over 60 new coal-based power plants over the next 10 years.

Analysts say markets have priced in the first U.S. rate hike in nine years and will take it as a sign of confidence in the economy.

The deal is part of GE's plan to sell off the about $200 billion worth of assets of its finance arm, GE Capital.

The U.S. oil benchmark jumped 1.9 percent, its first gain since OPEC nations failed to agree to cut production to boost prices.

According to a Bank of Japan survey, corporations are positive about the future despite global headwinds and weak domestic consumption.

"It is time for the world to free itself of the strictures of Doha," says the top American trade official, Michael Froman.

Oil is trading below $36 per barrel and two U.S. funds suspended redemptions before the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in nine years.

President Xi Jinping skipped the main event that marked the alleged killing of 300,000 Chinese people by Japanese troops in 1937.

China's Defense Ministry called its military drills in the region routine, while objecting to the U.S. sending a spy plane to Singapore.

The countries also agreed to cooperate on peaceful use of nuclear energy during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to India.

The deal, likely to be signed next week, comes months after GE sold its financial businesses in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. in a drive to become a "simpler" industrial business.

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The ruling coalition was close to a deal to exempt food items from a tax hike, leaving the government scrambling to cover the resultant revenue deficit.

The publishing group has reportedly been approached by several potential buyers for Quartz, amid a string of acquisitions and investments in media.

Financial markets, roiled by falling oil prices this week, expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise rates for the first time in nine years next week.

The hacking group claimed responsibility for crashing Shinzo Abe’s official website and threatened to take it down if Japan continued to kill whales.

Low petroleum prices are hurting capital spending and inflation prospects, raising questions about global growth.

U.S. solar capacity is on track to nearly double by the end of 2016 to 41,000 megawatts as solar developers rush to tap a fading federal tax incentive.