The United States on Thursday dropped a website owned by China's largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, from its annual list of the world's most "notorious markets" for sales of pirated and counterfeit goods. Taobao Marketplace,

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Cotton prices closed lower on Thursday as technical buying ran out of steam after US data revealed weekly export sales dropped by a third and as grains remained under pressure. The US government data raised

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The most-traded March copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange closed 0.4 percent higher at 57,840 yuan ($9,300) a tonne on Friday, its third consecutive weekly gain after data showed China's manufacturers built on a

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Copper was steady on Friday, with a brightening economic outlook for big metal consumer China offsetting concerns about the euro zone's deteriorating economy and a potential fiscal crisis in the United States. Growth in China's

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Oil prices rose on Friday on expectations for improved demand in China after data showed the manufacturing sector of the world's No. 2 oil consumer expanded in December at its fastest pace in more than

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Key TOCOM rubber futures rose to an almost seven-month high on Friday after data showing a pick-up in China's manufacturing sector fuelled a rally in a technically driven market. China's HSBC flash purchasing managers' index

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Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL EU degummed: euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2013 878.00 February 2013/April 2013 883.00 -7.00 May 2013/July 2013 860.00 -1.00. RAPEOIL Dutch/EU: euro tonne fob ex-mill February

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Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL EU degummed: euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2013 878.00 February 2013/April 2013 883.00 -7.00 May 2013/July 2013 860.00 -1.00. RAPEOIL Dutch/EU: euro tonne fob ex-mill February

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Wheat futures extended a five-session decline and set a fresh five-month low on Thursday while corn futures fell for a sixth day as technical selling and sluggish export demand weighed on both markets. Nearby soyabean

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Malaysian palm oil futures rebound on Friday from the previous day's three-year low but prices still posted their fourth consecutive weekly loss as worries persisted over record high stocks. For the week, palm oil lost

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