Headlines from CNBC
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Euro zone factory prices fell for the second month in a row in December, mirroring the trend in consumer inflation and leaving room for a possible European Central Bank interest rate cut to revive the weak economy.
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A French-owned Luxembourg-flagged tanker with 17 crew members that went missing off Ivory Coast over the weekend is believed to have been hijacked by Nigerian pirates, the International Maritime Bureau said on Monday.
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The fight for control of London-listed Bumi heated up on Monday, with the company's Chairman Samin Tan and co-founder Nat Rothschild taking to the airwaves ahead of a key extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) due on Feb 21.
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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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Chrysler's Jeep ad featuring a patriotic salute to U.S. troops and narration by Oprah Winfrey, an Oreo ad asking viewers to vote cookie or creme, and a scantily clad male Calvin Klein model were among standout commercials during a Super Bowl that suffered a half-hour partial blackout delay on Sunday.
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Mark Bristow, CEO of Rangold Resources, tells CNBC that 2012 was a very challenging year for Randgold on many fronts but they still posted a record performance overall.
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Boris Collardi, CEO at Julius Baer, tells CNBC that January has been a pretty decent month and if it continues they are in for a very decent year.
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James Hogan, CEO at Abu Dhabi's Etihad airways, tells CNBC that India is a huge market with considerable opportunity for long-haul travel and one Etihad is keen to enter into.
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Scores of independent mortgage lenders and community banks are winning business from banks such as Citigroup or Bank of America that have retrenched after the financial crisis.
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When German officials said they would save the euro zone at all costs, the prospect of bailing out Russian oligarchs was not what they had in mind, the New York Times reports.
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Blackstone, one of the world's largest alternative asset managers, has quietly secured a securities underwriting licence as its expanding capital markets operation strays into investment banking territory.
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Even in the leafy northern stretches of this city, home to luxury apartment buildings, mansions with swimming pools and tennis clubs, the smell of wood smoke lingers everywhere at night, the New York Times reports.
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Jacoby Jones took the 2nd half kickoff back 109 yards - setting an NFL record - to extend the Baltimore Ravens' lead to 28-6 early in the third quarter. NBC News reports.
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The head of a key pan-European industry group has sharply criticized intensifying pressure from US lobbyists on behalf of Google and Facebook to relax EU privacy laws to suit Silicon Valley businesses.
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The story of an emaciated, ragged man found wandering barefoot in the middle of a quiet country road last week in County Leitrim, near the border with Northern Ireland, continues to confound the police, even after he was identified as a missing Irish property tycoon who said he was abducted eight months ago and tortured during his captivity. The New York Times reports.
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A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad, according to officials involved in the review. The New York Times reports.
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Two U.S. pension funds filed a lawsuit against BlackRock, alleging that the world's biggest asset manager had "looted" securities-lending revenues from iShares exchange-traded funds investors, and breached its fiduciary duties.
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A rough couple of months in the U.S. bond market has lifted interest rates off record lows and now could impede a slow economic recovery heavily dependent on cheap money to keep going.
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Shares of Malaysia's MISC rose as much as 17 percent after the shipping firm's major shareholder Petroliam Nasional made an 8.8 billion Malaysian ringgit ($2.8 billion) buyout offer, equal to 5.30 ringgit per share.
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The best kept secret is that the Fed does more for the successful operation of the global business cycle than all the "talking shops" (G8, G20, and various U.N. agencies) combined.