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A perfect storm of yen strength, soaring JGB yields and new evidence of weakness in China's economy sparked a major sell-off in Japan's equity markets on Thursday.
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Uncertainty about Cyprus set markets on edge, but they are far from pricing in the tiny country's exit from the euro.
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With the yuan strong, some manufacturing companies are moving out of China and closer to the United States—to Mexico. USA Today reports.
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Yahoo is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in Dailymotion, one of the world's most popular online video websites.
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Wall Street has boosted its outlook for quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve, according to the March CNBC Fed Survey.
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Amid a cold war between Apple and Adobe over Flash, a key player is changing teams: Adobe's chief technology officer is heading to Apple.
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Russia could avenge the loss of billions of dollars in Cyprus by cutting Germany's energy supply, one analyst said.
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During the height of the housing boom, some likened the flipping game in Miami's condo market to a circus. The circus is back, and more high-flying than ever.
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The Reserve Bank of India lowered its key policy rate for the second time this year on Tuesday, but will the central bank's latest move succeed in helping revive growth in Asia's third largest economy?
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New Zealand's Finance Minister says investors should not be surprised if more issues "pop up" from the euro zone, a day after a bailout plan for Cyprus that includes a levy on savers rattled markets.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew met new Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday at a critical time in relations between the world's two largest economies, with cyber hacking, market access and the Chinese currency high on the agenda for talks
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A watch phone? Sounds like something TV private eye Maxwell Smart would have. But as smartphone sales slow, both Samsung and Apple are said to be working on them.
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A Chinese state television program on Apple raised concerns that the company has less fair phone-replacement policies in China than in other countries. The Global Post reports.
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"[W]e are saying [to international lenders] that if you think that by doing this you are fixing things, by...destroying our economy...then we have to say 'no,'" one Cyprus politician said.
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Four fuel storage pools at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have been without fresh cooling water for more than 15 hours due to a power outage.
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China's foreign direct investment inflows fell 1.35 percent in the first two months of 2013 from a year earlier, extending a run of falls triggered by a drop in investor confidence in emerging markets.
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Australia's central bank felt there were enough signs of life in the economy to hold off cutting interest rates at its March 5 review even though a benign inflation outlook gave it scope to ease policy.
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CNBC's Adam Bakhtiar caught up with Paul Walsh, CEO of Diageo, and asked about how European sales are affecting the world's biggest distiller.
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Airbus has landed the largest order of the year, and one of the largest of all-time, with a book value of almost $24 billion. The European plane maker will sell 234 of its A320 planes to Lion Air out of Indonesia.
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The Cyprus impact is a minor blip on the weekly euro/dollar chart. The upside target for the pair in a rebound from $1.29 is the previous resistance level near $1.34.
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Economists at Nomura sounded a warning that China is exhibiting the same symptoms that triggered the 2008 financial crisis.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng stock index may be one of Asia's laggards, but Morgan Stanley reckons the market is poised to more than double to 50,000 by the end of 2015.
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First it was gold, and now it's silver. The metal fell victim to heavy selling on Monday.
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Australia's dollar has received its fair share of whacking lately and perhaps it's time to give the currency a bit of a break, currency strategists say.
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The silver chart shows that those who are wishing for a rise in the gold price will be disappointed.
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The collapse of the Aussie below parity against the U.S. dollar is not the start of a downtrend for this resilient currency.,
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This chartist says the recent rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is not likely to lose steam any time soon.