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TOKYO, June 19- Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to rise to a one-week high on Wednesday, helped by a second-straight day of gains on Wall Street as investors bet that the Federal Reserve would temper worries about an imminent roll back of its stimulus programme.
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MUMBAI, June 17- The Reserve Bank of India kept interest rates unchanged on Monday as expected after cutting them in each of its previous three policy reviews, warning of upward risks to inflation as its currency is among the hardest hit amid a global emerging markets sell-off.
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PARIS, June 16- International orders are set to eclipse U.S. military purchases of Sikorsky Aircraft helicopters in four or five years, the company's president told Reuters ahead of the Paris air show.
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*Russia says U.N. decisions by' consensus' are too vague. *Belarus, Ukraine back Moscow after defeat in Qatar. Seething after they were overruled in a consensus decision at U.N. talks in Qatar last year, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine blocked one strand of two-week climate talks in Bonn ending on Friday, by insisting on clearer rules for decision-making.
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TREZZANO SUL NAVIGLIO, Italy, June 13- When Italian car parts multinational Maflow imploded under the weight of the financial crisis, workers at its nerve centre in Trezzano sul Naviglio occupied the factory to protest against mismanagement and seek redress.
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WARSAW, June 13- With his fondness for tea in china cups and upper-class English accent, British-born Jacek Rostowski projects an air of cultivated calm, but the economic slowdown has put his job as Poland's finance minister in the balance. Rostowski, an admirer of ex-British leader Margaret Thatcher, has overseen one of Europe's few economic success stories.
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LONDON, June 12- If currency turbulence in emerging markets escalates into full-scale investor flight, the U.S. Given all the obvious influences on Fed policy- domestic inflation, jobless youths, long-term unemployment, stuttering credit creation or banking stability- gyrations on markets from Turkey to South Africa or South Korea may seem tangential.
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*China's emissions offset falls in U.S. and Europe. LONDON, June 10- China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, casting doubt over the chances of limiting global warming to what scientists regard as an acceptable level.
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LONDON, June 7- Major developing countries with big foreign financing needs are acutely vulnerable to the risk of a sudden stop in investment flows which has unnerved emerging markets in recent weeks.
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*Hopes for Britain's shale industry rise on Centrica interest. LONDON, June 7- A significant new investor in Britain's shale industry suggests there are prizes to be had, but big oil companies are unlikely to cough up serious funding until they have more reassurance about the size and shape of UK reserves and regulations.
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LONDON, June 7- Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are transformative technologies, but their eventual impact on global oil and gas supplies depends on whether the production techniques pioneered in just a handful of shale plays in the United States can be replicated in others around the world.
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*Possible Fed shift affects millions from Brazil to Poland. JOHANNESBURG, June 7- When South Africa's rand tumbled to a four-year low, black market currency dealer Valeria raised a quiet cheer; a trip to the wholesaler where she buys clothes for her above-board business brought her back to earth.
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Jose Martins Soares, head of emerging markets research at Espirito Santo Investment Bank, says the Polish relative growth story still stands and explains why the country has been "very, very good" to them.
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Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, , talks about how Poland should continue to avoid a recession, how it plans to tackle high unemployment and deficits and the increased trust in its sovereign debt.
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Pawel Tamborski, Poland's deputy treasury minister, describes how Poland is working on boosting infrastructure investment and lowering its deficit.
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Adam Maciejewski, CEO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, says they have reached the limits for organic growth and are looking into other options such as mergers and acquisitions.
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VIENNA, June 6- The central and eastern European banking empire that Herbert Stepic forged at Austrian lender Raiffeisen may be the casualty of a power struggle at the group exposed by his sudden exit.
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Despite cooling of talks between Austria and Poland about a possible merger of their two stock exchanges, CEO of the Warsaw index has given his strongest hint yet that a deal is drawing closer.
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STOCKHOLM, June 5- Asked if he would ever quit IKEA, 87- year-old founder Ingvar Kamprad told an interviewer last year he "had no time to die". Kamprad, who founded the business 70 years ago and is one of Europe's wealthiest men, will leave the board of a major company within the business, Inter IKEA Group, which owns the brand and directs strategy.
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VIENNA, June 6- The central and eastern European banking empire that Herbert Stepic forged at Austrian lender Raiffeisen may be the casualty of a power struggle at the group exposed by his sudden exit.
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