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Apple smartphones gaining on Samsung in US Apple narrowed the gap with Samsung smartphones in the precious US market in the months before the release of the hot-selling iPhone 5 model.

04 October 2012

Gold mine evicts workers as S.African strikes spread A leading gold mine in South Africa started evicting thousands of its striking workers from company dormitories on Tuesday as work stoppages spread to more gold and platinum mines.

04 October 2012

Google backs off patent complaint against Apple Google-owned Motorola Mobility withdrew a patent complaint filed with a US commission but remained quiet Tuesday as to the reason for the legal ceasefire.

04 October 2012

KazMunaiGas' prospects remain optimistic even in pessimistic scenario Production of oil and gas condensate will grow 1.6-fold in Kazakhstan by 2022: KazMunaiGas chairman.

03 October 2012

Taiwan expects tourist boost to US with visa waiver Taiwanese officials said Wednesday that visitors to the United States are estimated to increase by 50 percent now that the island has been added to the US visa waiver programme.

03 October 2012

Kazakhstan raises fuel prices Kazakhstan’s Agency for Natural Monopolies Regulation has changed the ceiling prices for regulated fuel.

03 October 2012

Arab and LatAm leaders agree to investment bank Latin American and Arab leaders agreed to form a joint investment bank during a summit in Peru at which they also discussed the increasingly bloody civil war in Syria.

03 October 2012

S&P warns of little iron ore respite for miners Global credit agency Standard & Poor's said Tuesday that it saw little improvement in iron ore prices in the near-term and warned that smaller single-commodity miners could see their ratings slip.

03 October 2012

US State Dept seeks to unblock $450 mn for Egypt The US State Department said Monday it would work with Congress to try to unblock some $450 million in economic aid for Egypt, after a lawmaker froze the funds.

03 October 2012

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Kazakhstan President meets Gazprom chairman Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has met with chairman of Gazprom Aleksey Miller.

02 October 2012

ConocoPhillips might exit the Kashagan project: Oil Minister The Minister elaborated that “no official announcements have been made”.

02 October 2012

Two S. Korea nuclear reactors shut down Two South Korean 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors were shut down Tuesday at separate plants, both as a result of unrelated systems malfunctions.

02 October 2012

Kazakhstan residents prefer loans in tenge According to the National Bank, of Kazakhstan the share of the loans issued in tenge exceeded 68 percent and made over 6.4 trillion tenge ($42 billion) as of September.

02 October 2012

New York sues JPMorgan over mortgage securities The state of New York filed suit against JPMorgan Chase and its subsidiary JPMorgan Securities Monday over the allegedly fraudulent sales of mortgage-backed securities ahead of the US financial crisis.

02 October 2012

Kazakhstan residents have almost $32 billion on bank deposits A majority of the deposits is registered in Almaty: over 2.1 trillion tenge ($14 billion) or 45 percent of the total amount.

02 October 2012

Rompetrol fully switched to Euro-5 fuel production Rompetrol has successfully completed modernization of Petromidia oil refinery and switched to production of Euro-5 fuel.

02 October 2012

Finland promises innovations to Kazakhstan Finland’s Minister of Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb will render a visit to Kazakhstan in the beginning of October.

02 October 2012

Xstrata, Glencore announce new deal for massive tie-up Swiss mining group Xstrata and commodities giant Glencore said on Monday they had agreed on new terms for their tie-up to create a massive company worth about 70 billion euros ($90 billion).

02 October 2012

World's 2nd largest steel firm born in Japan Japan's Nippon Steel and rival Sumitomo Metal Industries formally merged on Monday, creating the world's second largest steelmaker amid intensifying global competition.

02 October 2012