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*Dollar/yen reaches 99.90 yen in thin early Asia trade. SYDNEY, April 22- The yen started the new week under pressure, with the dollar just a whisker away from the elusive 100 level, after the Group of 20 countries stopped short of criticising Japan's reflationary policies that have significantly weakened its currency.
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*Market ahead of itself in anticipating Japan outflows. "A move to say, sort of 105 or thereabouts, is very much on the cards," said Christopher Brandon, managing director for Rhicon Currency Management, a Singapore- based fund with about $350 million in assets under management.
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*Japan finance minister says G20 not opposed to BOJ stimulus. LONDON, April 19- The yen fell on Friday after Japan said the Group of 20 accepted its stance that its aggressive monetary expansion was aimed at beating deflation and not at competitive devaluation.
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*Raised foreign bond holdings by Y200 bln in year to March 2013. TOKYO, April 19- Taiyo Life Insurance, Japan's sixth-largest life insurer, plans to increase its foreign bond holdings and may cut investment in domestic bonds in the year to March, the company's director in charge of investment planning, Chikahiro Tsuboi, said on Friday.
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*Yen drops on Japan finance minister's comments. LONDON, April 19- The yen fell on Friday as macro funds resumed selling after Japan said the Group of 20 accepted its stance that its aggressive monetary expansion was aimed at beating deflation and not at competitive devaluation.
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TOKYO, April 19- Taiyo Life Insurance, Japan's sixth-largest life insurer, plans to increase its foreign bond holdings and may cut investment in domestic bonds in the year to March, the company's director in charge of investment planning, Chikahiro Tsuboi, said on Friday.
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*Dollar, euro rise against yen on Japan finmin's comments. SINGAPORE, April 19- The yen fell on Friday after Japan said the Group of 20 has accepted Tokyo's stance that the Bank of Japan's sweeping monetary expansion is aimed at beating deflation and not at competitively weakening the yen.
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SINGAPORE, April 19- The yen fell broadly on Friday after Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said Japan faced no G20 opposition to its stance that the Bank of Japan's aggressive monetary stimulus is aimed at beating deflation.
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April 18- UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer, said on Thursday that a major public-sector customer had switched to a fee-based insurance service in the first quarter from a full-risk plan and lowered its 2013 revenue outlook.
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UnitedHealth Group said on Thursday that its first-quarter profit had fallen, in part because of lower U.S. government payments for its private Medicare services and prescription plans for older Americans.
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April 18- UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer, said on Thursday that its first-quarter profit had fallen, in part because of lower government payments for its private Medicare services and prescription plans for older Americans.
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TOKYO, April 16- Japanese government bond prices rose on Tuesday, with the benchmark yield moving away from a one-month high hit in the previous session, buoyed by rising risk aversion and a smooth 5- year sale.
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*MSCI Asia ex- Japan up 0.8 pct, Nikkei hits near 5- year peak. TOKYO, April 11- Fresh data underscoring a recovery in China and Wall Street's record closing overnight boosted Asian shares on Thursday, while gold bounced off lows on worries about rising tensions in the Korean peninsula.
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*Gold struggles to rise, staying near $1,550 an ounce. TOKYO, April 11- Wall Street's record closing overnight and optimism about the Chinese economy underpinned Asian shares on Thursday while the yen marked time before testing fresh lows against major currencies as the Bank of Japan's bold stimulus moves continue to kick in.
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April 10- Protective Life Corp said it will buy Mony Life Insurance Company from parent AXA SA for $1.06 billion to access its portfolio of life insurance policies.
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*MSCI Asia ex- Japan up 0.1 pct, Nikkei opens up 1.2 pct. TOKYO, April 11- Wall Street's record closing overnight and growing optimism about the Chinese economy underpinned Asian shares on Thursday while the Bank of Japan's bold monetary stimulus kept the yen pinned near fresh lows against major currencies.
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BEIJING- China posts a mild trade deficit of $884 million in March as a forecast-busting 14.1 percent year-on-year surge in imports eclipses export growth of 10 percent, signalling domestic demand is gathering steam needed to drive economic recovery. (CHINA-ECONOMY/TRADE, moved, by Aileen Wang and Nick Edwards, 1,100 words).
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SINGAPORE/ SYDNEY, April 9- The yen pushed deeper into multi-year lows against the dollar and euro on Tuesday as the market saw every reason to sell the currency with the Japanese central bank on a warpath to battle deflation. The dollar rose to as high as 99.67 yen on trading platform EBS, the greenback's strongest level versus the yen since May 2009.
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*Japan institutions will likely determine how far yen could fall. TOKYO, April 8- A U.S. dollar bill could soon be worth the same as a Japanese 100- yen coin for the first time since April 2009, as investors price in the Bank of Japan's aggressive monetary expansion.
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TOKYO, April 8- The yen tumbled while Japanese stocks and government bonds rallied on Monday as the Bank of Japan lost no time embarking on its ambitious stimulus drive, but weak U.S. jobs data and regional risks such as North Korea weighed on other assets.