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Some of the top stories making the first half of this day.

Teck Resources said on Friday it will sell a 17.2 percent equity stake to state-owned China Investment Corp in a deal that will help the Canadian miner pay down its debt while expanding China's portfolio of commodity investments.

Canada's Teck Resources said on Friday it will sell a 17.2 percent equity stake to state-owned China Investment Corp in a deal that will help Teck pay down debt while expanding China's portfolio of commodity investments.

At the midyear mark, even some of the best-performing mutual funds of 2009 are still working on comebacks from dismal losses last year, underscoring lingering uncertainty in markets and in the funds industry.

Wilmar International, the world's largest listed palm oil company, has hired three banks to handle what sources say could be a $3 billion flotation of its China business.

Derivatives pose risks on financial markets that central clearing of contracts would mitigate, the European Commission said on Friday, outlining plans that fall short of more radical U.S. steps.

GMAC said on Wednesday that it has converted to a corporation from a limited liability company, a move that could allow the auto and mortgage lender to sell shares to the public.

The Chinese government has hired three banks to handle the public listing of a railway holding company, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, in an IPO that could be worth around $5 billion.

Securities firm International Assets Holding Corp agreed to buy commodity risk management firm FCStone Group Inc in an all-stock deal valued at about $130 million, as it looks to expand presence in the commodities market.

Some of Europe's cash-strapped biotech companies may just be able to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

India's Tata Steel, the world's sixth-largest steel maker, plans to sell global depositary receipts worth about $600 million, two sources with direct knowledge of the deal said on Thursday.

Stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Thursday after payrolls data showed more Americans than expected lost their jobs in June, dampening hopes that the economy may be heading out of recession quickly.

Bangladesh's state-run oil and gas authority said on Thursday it had approved a plan by U.S. energy firm Chevron to invest $52 million to augment natural gas supply in the country.

Stock index futures fell on Thursday as investors readied for data expected to show more Americans lost their jobs in June than in the previous month, in another sign the economic recovery may be slower than hoped.

Main news for July 2

Stock index futures fell on Thursday as investors braced for all-important monthly jobs data for insight into the state of the economy.

Stocks in Hong Kong and Taiwan rose on Thursday, bolstered by bets China's recovery will continue, while the U.S. dollar recovered from a three-week low against the euro ahead of the latest U.S. labor market report.

Global investment in clean energy and climate-friendly technologies leapt in the last three months but full-year levels won't recover until 2010 or 2011, analysts said on Wednesday.

Bill Gross, the influential investor who runs top bond fund Pimco, said on Wednesday that greed will eventually become the norm again for consumers and investors, but fear continues to rule for now -- a mindset that will result in subdued U.S. economic growth for some time.

Stocks rose on Wednesday, the first day of the third quarter, as investors took reassuring manufacturing data from China, Europe and the United States as a fresh signal that the world's economy is on the road to recovery.