Japanese government bonds gained on Monday, with 10-year futures climbing to a two-week high, as the Nikkei share average's fall from a 15-month peak spurred buying of safe-haven debt. JGBs were also helped by US

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Taiwan stocks fell 0.23 percent on Monday, hurt by losses in heavyweights like Hon Hai, after the government said it would allow Chinese investors to buy a lower than expected $500 million worth of local

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Australian stocks closed 0.2 firmer on Monday, as banks gained on hopes of solid trading results and talk of further consolidation in wealth management, offsetting losses by resources shares. Financial stocks started lower after J.P.

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Singapore is fast losing its charm for Chinese companies, which once drove its IPO bandwagon, threatening its status as a major Asian bourse and posing a big challenge for new SGX CEO Magnus Bocker. Singapore

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Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) said on Monday that its joint venture with China's Sinopec has obtained financing worth a total of $2.68 billion for their Tianjin petrochemical complex. SABIC also said in a statement

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Colombia's fiscal deficits will be higher than expected this year and the government is cutting back on public spending to help fill the gap, Finance Minister Oscar Zuluaga said on Monday. The country's 2010 consolidated

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A $2.2 billion hydrogen power plant and a linked carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the United Arab Emirates should be completed in 2014, a senior executive at the company building the plant said

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Indonesia's president dismissed talk that he plans to fire his reformist finance minister by the end of February over the minister's role in the late 2008 bailout of a small bank, a local newspaper reported

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A private gauge of Australian inflation rose for a second straight month in December, suggesting the low for inflation had passed and price pressures were set to pick up somewhat this year. The TD Securities-Melbourne

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Toyota Motor Corp plans to double its production of hybrid cars to 1 million units in 2011, the major economic daily Nikkei reported Monday. Toyota plans to add about 10 new hybrid models from minivans,

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