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SEC to meet Chinese counterparts

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U.S. securities and accounting regulators will meet Chinese counterparts next week to negotiate an agreement on joint U.S.-Chinese inspections of auditing firms in China, the U.S. government said on Friday.
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iPhone 5 September 2011 Debut & iPhone 6 on the Horizon in 2012

While rumors swirl around iPhone 5, details around the sixth generation of iPhones has also been unveiled little by little. The iPhone 6 is said to be launching in 2012, featuring a new way of charging the phone, claimed a Wall Street Journal report.
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Dim sum market stirs U.S. borrowers

by Andrea JohnsonBRADENTON/NEW YORK, July 7 - One of the U.S. high-grade market's favorites, Caterpillar Financial Services, is becoming quite the regular issuer in the offshore yuan-denominated market, also called the dim sum or CNH bond market.
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China Warns US Not to Meet With Dalai Lama

China has warned U.S. officials to avoid meeting with the Dalai Lama who is making his first trip to Washington D.C. since his “retirement” as the Tibetan leader-in-exile.
Experts warn that smartphone and tablets are vulnerable to hackers

The Truth About Apple's iPhone 5

Rumors and speculation have swirled around the anticipated release of Apple's iPhone 5, but the new smartphone won't be as radical as some have suggested. Apple's next iPhone version, coming next year, will offer the biggest change.
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Futures rise ahead of labor data

Stock index futures advanced on Thursday before data on the labor market, which may provide investors clues about Friday's key payrolls report.
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Paper says China has legal, moral right to curb rare earth

China is well within its rights, legally and morally, to limit rare earth exports, argued an article in Chinese state media on Thursday, days after the World Trade Organization ruled against China on its curbs of raw materials exports.
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Exclusive: China may cut spending on strategic industries

China may rein in plans to invest heavily in seven new strategic industries, including high speed rail and wind power, scaling back cutting-edge projects for industries suffering from old-fashioned problems such as corruption and overcapacity, sources said.
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Euro steady ahead of ECB, China stocks climb

The euro steadied on Thursday with a widely expected rate hike from the European Central Bank later being offset by a spreading sovereign debt crisis, while China's bank stocks bounced on hopes of a near-term pause in policy tightening.
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China stocks rise, euro steady ahead of ECB

China's bank stocks bounced on Thursday on hopes of a near-term pause in policy tightening, keeping regional shares close to a one-month high, while the euro steadied before a widely expected rate hike from the European Central Bank later.
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Japan core machinery orders up, recovery under way

Japan's core machinery orders rose in May at the fastest pace in four months in a sign that capital expenditures will stay firm and support the economic recovery as the country rebuilds from a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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Is Jiang Zemin Dead or Alive?

Speculation and rumors that former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin may have died have led government Internet censors to quash any such discussion of the subject online.

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