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Yahoo's board approves $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition: WSJ
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc's board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday.
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Insight: Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them bound for the gambling hub.
Analysis: Airline emissions deal may not come before EU deadline
- Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system.
Analysis: Frontier Markets booming but risks mounting
NEW YORK - With the world's biggest central banks driving yields on safe assets to near zero, some investors are tossing caution to the wind and rushing to buy illiquid and previously overlooked bonds sold by countries with no capital markets track record.
Exclusive: South Africa's NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage rises from gold, coal producers
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated labor climate.
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