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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. equities pushed higher on Tuesday as investors grew more confident that the Federal Reserve would temper its recent statements on the future reduction of U.S. monetary support, while still pointing to economic improvement. The...

* MSCI Asia ex-Japan ease as markets remain nervous about Fed * European shares likely to inch higher * Upcoming China data in focus By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Asian shares and the dollar stayed pressured while Japanese equities...

KUWAIT, May 26 (Reuters) - Kuwaiti lawmakers have called for the scrapping of a contract to build a gas-fired power and seawater treatment plant, a newspaper said, putting pressure on an important project in the Gulf state's development plan. Lawmakers...

* Coal producers face too much supply through 2020 * Will be forced to make deeper cuts, shed more mines * Big firms best placed to weather downturn * Junior miners struggle to get funding By Rebekah Kebede PERTH, May 24 (Reuters) - Australian coal...

A Calvert County judge brushed aside Friday a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG...

When older Japanese Americans hear scare phrases like "ethnic integrity," they can be forgiven for flashing back to less-friendly times. But what if the speaker is Japanese American? Last month, Little Tokyo's New Otani Hotel & Garden was sold by...