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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets slipped on Friday over worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb a stimulus program that has lifted stocks, while the dollar recovered against the euro after better-than-expected U.S. durable goods data for...

* 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...

* Stock market up 30 pct on relative political peace * Court will rule in June whether emir's decree was valid * Ruling against decree would dissolve parliament * This could damage cooperation with cabinet * Analysts, diplomats say ruling could go...

(Reuters) - La primera subasta de petróleo de Brasil en cinco años ofrecerá 289 áreas en tierra y en alta mar de 11 cuencas sedimentarias que abarcan 155.800 kilómetros cuadrados de territorio brasileño, una superficie equivalente al territorio de...

May 10 (Reuters) - Brazil's first oil auction in five years will offer 289 onshore and offshore areas from 11 sedimentary basins covering 155,800 square kilometers (60,155 square miles) of Brazilian territory, an area the size of Bangladesh or the U.S....

(Reuters) - Brazil's first oil auction in five years will offer 289 onshore and offshore areas from 11 sedimentary basins covering 155,800 square kilometers (60,155 square miles) of Brazilian territory, an area the size of Bangladesh or the U.S. state...

* MSCI Asia ex-Japan up 0.8 pct, Nikkei hits fresh five-year peak * China reports stronger-than-forecast April trade data * Equities seen preferred as global easings depress returns on bonds By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Asian shares rose...

By Sophie Sassard LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) - Generali's private bank BSI attracted bids below its estimated 2.3 billion Swiss francs ($2.5 billion) book value, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. A consortium made up of Spanish...

* Billionaire Clive Palmer earmarks $1 bln to upgrade nickel refinery * Wants to improve margins to battle plummeting prices * Xstrata, Vale, others soldier on with big projects * Extra output could deepen supply glut By James Regan SYDNEY, May 3...

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...