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The British prime minister must show leadership and refresh a tired team
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LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Hedge funds turned bearish
towards U.S. crude while boosting bullish positions in gasoline
and heating oil in the final week of August, anticipating major
disruption to U.S. refineries as a result of Hurricane Harvey.
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LONDON, Sept 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two leading
British retailers have pulled a range of luxury granite worktops
from sale after rights groups found that many of the labourers
mining the rock in southern Indian quarries are victims of
modern slavery.
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LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Gold prices jumped to their
highest in nearly a year on Monday as escalating tensions
between North Korea and the United States and a weaker dollar
persuaded investors to take refuge in assets perceived to be
safe.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - When the U.S. Congress
returns from summer vacation on Tuesday, for the first time in
years gutting Obamacare will not be the main order of business
on the healthcare agenda.
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COLOMBO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares fell to a near
two-week low on Monday as investors sold diversified and telecom
shares in lacklustre trade ahead of a holiday, while the daily
turnover got a boost from block trades.
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DHAKA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank will
send a team of officials to the Philippines on Tuesday to push
for the recovery of more of the $81 million stolen from its
account at the New York Federal Reserve last year and routed
through a bank in Manila.
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OSLO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Norway's $990 billion sovereign
wealth fund, the world's largest, on Monday proposed to
streamline its fixed-income portfolio by shortening maturities
and cutting corporate bonds and some 20 currencies from the
benchmark it tracks.
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LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Nineteen foreign banks in the
European Union will need to set up new holding companies so that
regulators can scrutinise them more closely, an EU discussion
paper says, mirroring steps taken by the United States.
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Janet Beer shrugs off complaints over student loans and soaring vice-chancellor pay
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