Investors in European equities ended a stellar 2005 with strong returns in the fourth quarter and, while few expect 2006 to match the previous 12 months, stocks remain the most popular asset bet for the

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Indian share prices closed 0.80 percent higher Friday, putting in another record finish and taking the gain for the year to just over 42 percent, dealers said. The Mumbai stock exchange's 30-share Sensex rose 74.68

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US stocks fell in light trading volume on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average set to end the year lower, as investors sold some of the year's best-performing stocks and oil prices above $61

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Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Friday. EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: European shares fell from 4-1/2 year highs set the day before as Wall Street weakened and investors booked profits

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Britain's FTSE 100 index ended 2005 with a yearly gain of over 16 percent, its best annual performance since the end of the dot-com boom, underpinned by rampant take-over activity and solid corporate profits. The

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Brazil's Santa Clara and Israel's Grupo Strauss-Elite said on Friday that they created a coffee roasting joint venture with the aim of becoming market leader in the world's No 2 coffee market. The new company,

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Industrial metals prices finished the year with big gains that surpassed analyst forecasts as supply constraints lured investors into commodities. London Metal Exchange (LME) copper futures finished Friday's open outcry session 39.5 percent higher than

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Oil prices jumped on Friday, boosted by worries about US gasoline and distillates supplies and on expectations Opec will cut output when it meets in January. US gasoline stocks are now 13 million barrels or

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Firm cash soy markets should limit soy deliveries on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) January futures contract to roughly 400 to 600 lots, traders and analysts said on Thursday. Friday is first notice day

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Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill December 2005 unquoted January 2006 442.00 +0.00 February 2006/April 2006 440.00 +0.00 May 2006/July 2006 445.00 +0.00 August 2006/October 2006

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