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While Asia's major equity markets have delivered strong gains since the start of 2013, one frontier market has been quietly outperforming - rising 17 percent - making it the best performer in the region.
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NEW YORK/ LONDON, Feb 1- Raw sugar futures on ICE rose to 19 cents for the first time in two weeks on Friday on short-covering and improving sentiment, although prices pared gains after hitting technical resistance.
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NEW YORK, Feb 1- Gold rose in unison with equities and commodities on Friday, notching a weekly gain, after U.S. nonfarm payrolls data showed modest job growth in January.
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*China's official PMI eases to 50.4, HSBC reading at two-year high. NEW YORK/ LONDON, Feb 1- U.S. manufacturing growth quickened in January and hiring across the economy increased in late 2012, but Chinese factories only managed a slight rebound as the new year began, suggesting that world economic growth remains sluggish.
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LONDON, Feb 1- Brent crude oil rose above $116 on Friday to reach a four-month high after a suicide bombing attack on the U.S. embassy in Ankara increased the focus on tension across the region. Brent futures for March rose $1.18 to a high of $116.73 a barrel, its highest since mid-September, before easing back to around $116.25 by 1500 GMT.
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LONDON, Feb 1- Gold prices rose above $1,680 an ounce on Friday in line with a rally in stocks and other commodities after U.S. non-farm payrolls data showed modest job growth in January and upward revisions in December and November. Spot gold was up 0.9 percent at $1,677.70 an ounce at 1438 GMT, having earlier touched a high of $1,681.70.
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COPENHAGEN, Feb 1- Danish brewer Carlsberg is returning to Myanmar following the easing of international sanctions which forced it out of the country in the mid-1990s. "There is no doubt that this will go fast," Carlsberg's Chief Executive Jorgen Buhl Rasmussen told Reuters from Myanmar before an inauguration ceremony in Yangon on Friday. "
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 1- An external committee appointed by African mobile phone group MTN to investigate claims by rival Turkcell of corrupt dealings in Iran has dismissed the allegations as "a fabric of lies, distortions and inventions".
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Feb 1- Beam Inc reported a smaller-than-expected decline in fourth-quarter earnings and gave an optimistic 2013 forecast as it benefits from strong demand for bourbon and growth in emerging markets.
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The company earned $126.3 million, or 79 cents per share, up from $88.5 million, or 56 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Revenue excluding excise taxes rose 11 percent to $709.1 million, from $637.5 million, beating Wall Street predictions of $706.2 million.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 1- Daimler secured a stake in its partner BAIC Motor ahead of a planned stock offering by the Chinese carmaker, in an effort to catch up with larger German rivals in what could become the biggest market for luxury cars in the world.
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Payment for shares made in cash- HSBC. HONG KONG, Feb 1- China has approved the sale of HSBC's remaining $7.4 billion stake in Ping An Insurance to a group controlled by Thailand's richest man, allowing completion of the biggest equity purchase in the country by a foreign investor.
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LONDON/ BEIJING, Feb 1- China's vast factory sector managed only a shallow rebound at the start of 2013 and manufacturing in the euro zone remained weak, although there the worst may be over, a clutch of surveys suggested on Friday.
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*Middle East tension stokes supply worries. LONDON, Feb 1- Brent crude oil rose towards $116 on Friday, heading for a sixth consecutive week of gains on rising economic optimism and tension across the Middle East, the world's biggest oil region.
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HONG KONG, Feb 1- China has approved the sale of HSBC's remaining $7.5 billion stake in Ping An Insurance to a group controlled by Thailand's richest man, giving the green light to the country's biggest inbound M&A deal.
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HONG KONG, Feb 1- China has approved the sale of HSBC's remaining $7.5 billion stake in Ping An Insurance to a group controlled by Thailand's richest man, giving the green light to the country's biggest inbound M&A deal. Ping An announced the approval in a filing on the Shanghai stock exchange just hours before a deadline for a decision.
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LONDON, Feb 1- Gold firmed on Friday as a rise in stock markets and a slide in the dollar to 14- month lows against the euro helped it offset the previous session's drop, but the move was muted ahead of a monthly U.S. payrolls report.
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The euro rose more than 1 percent to hit 126.09 yen, its highest since April 2010, extending gains after breaking above an options barrier at 126 yen. Against the dollar, the euro also broke above a similar barrier at $1.3650 to hit $1.3671, its strongest since November 2011.
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LONDON, Feb 1- Copper rose on Friday as confidence in the outlook for global growth gathered pace, with investors awaiting a labour market report from the United States for further evidence of the health of the world's largest economy.
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JAKARTA, Feb 1- Indonesia's trade deficit narrowed in December, but exports fell much more than expected and some economists predict that 2012' s first annual deficit in history might not be the country's last.
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*China's official PMI eases to 50.4 in January. SINGAPORE, Feb 1- London copper rose on Friday but stayed off four-month highs struck in the previous session as growing confidence about a global economic recovery overcame a tepid expansion in China's factory sector in January.