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Brazil to spend $55 billion to defend sagging real Markets and analysts cheered Friday after Brazil's central bank pledged $55 billion until year's end to prop up the sagging real while Latin America's biggest economy is showing weak growth.

25 August 2013

Hon Hai sells 'wearable computing' patent to Google Taiwan's Hon Hai group has sold part of its patent portfolio involving wearable computing to US technology giant Google.

24 August 2013

Microsoft eyes new course as Ballmer sets retirement Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced Friday he would retire within 12 months, opening a new chapter for a company struggling to keep pace with the fast-changing tech sector.

24 August 2013

Chevron and TengizChevroil break ice on Kazakh content Kazakhstan engineering companies are eager to produce equipment for Chevron and TengizChevroil.

23 August 2013

Nokia says India 'least favourite market': report Finnish telecom giant Nokia has told India's government that the country is now its "least favourable market" to operate in and it makes better sense to export its products from China.

23 August 2013

Global manufacturing data helps Asia markets rebound Asian markets firmed on Friday as a slew of upbeat manufacturing data from around the globe overshadowed concerns about the US Federal Reserve's plans for its stimulus programme.

23 August 2013

UK Islamic TV channel fined for inciting violence Britain's broadcasting watchdog fined an Islamic television channel £85,000 ($133,000, 99,700 euros) after a presenter said anyone disrespecting the Prophet Mohammed should be killed.

22 August 2013

China manufacturing rebounds: HSBC A closely watched indicator of Chinese manufacturing turned positive for the first time in four months in August, HSBC said Thursday, in a sign of renewed strength in the world's second-largest economy.

22 August 2013

US manufacturing gaining on competition: study After decades of hollowing out, US manufacturing is overtaking competitors and stands to grab up to $115 billion more in export business from rivals by 2020.

21 August 2013

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Risky financial crisis derivatives return in new form Collateralized debt obligations, the complex financial instruments that cratered disastrously in the financial crisis, are back.

21 August 2013

Introduction of Euro-4 in Kazakhstan was timely: Transport Ministry Euro-4 cars filled with Euro-2 petrol will still improve the ecological situation in Kazakhstan: official.

20 August 2013

Tokyo shares open lower after Wall Street losses Tokyo shares opened lower Tuesday, following a weak showing on Wall Street as speculation lingers that the US Federal Reserve will scale back its bond-buying programme.

20 August 2013

Japan firm says skin stain complaints top 7,000 Japanese cosmetics maker Kanebo said Monday the number of complaints about skin discolouring from using its whitening products has topped 7,000 from customers both at home and abroad.

20 August 2013

US investigating JPMorgan's China hiring The United States is investigating JPMorgan over its hiring practices in China.

19 August 2013

KazTransGas National Gas Shipping Company to purchase annually 2.5-3 billion cubic meters of gas from Kashagan consortium Commercial production at the giant Kashagan oilfield is to start as early as in October, KazTAG reported July 18, citing the country’s newly appointed oil and gas minister Uazakbai Karabalin as saying.

19 August 2013

Commercial production at Kashagan will not benefit Kazakhstan: industry source “The cost of all the project works was bloated several times, which is by billions of US Dollars”, according to the source.

19 August 2013

Kyrgyzstan owes Kazakhstan $10 million for gas Kyrgyzstan’s debt to Kazakhstan for the natural gas it supplied has reached $10.6 million.

19 August 2013

AOL trims its Patch news operations AOL said Friday it was cutting an unspecified number of jobs at its Patch hyperlocal news operations, while consolidating or closing some Patch sites.

18 August 2013

Ikea recalls children's beds due to laceration hazard The world's leading furniture chain Ikea on Thursday issued a recall of two models of children's beds after several reported cases of a broken metal rod that exposed sharp edges.

16 August 2013