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If the Federal Reserve botches its rate hike, money will flee emerging markets, endangering companies that borrowed in dollars and curbing economic growth.

Dow component Cisco fell 5.6 percent to $26.27 after it gave a weak forecast, citing a slowdown in order growth and weak spending outside the United States.

GDP growth in the third quarter in the 19-nation eurozone came in below expectations while Europe's largest economy also slowed over the previous quarter.

The U.K. sold $19.8 billion worth of mortgages, including loans originally owned by two banks that went bust during the 2008 financial crisis.

The Swiss pesticide maker turned down an offer by the state-backed Chinese agricultural company as more Chinese investors go shopping for top-tier European companies.

The deal would allow the California Public Employees' Retirement System to sell 43 of its international and domestic funds to Blackstone.

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"Data from China ... is showing no sign that growth might be picking up," said Masahiro Ichikawa, senior strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management.

In one report, the Labor Department said job openings rose by 149,000 to 5.53 million in September -- the third-highest reading since the reports started.

The offer follows a similarly priced bid from Monsanto that was withdrawn after Syngenta dismissed it as too low.

The latest decline was triggered by data showing that U.S. stockpiles were still rising rapidly, despite slowing U.S. shale production.

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Many Fed officials, including William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, suggested the likelihood of a liftoff from near-zero interest rates by year's end.

Etho Capital will soon launch a first-of-its-kind investment fund that includes only companies with low carbon footprints.

Global markets were mostly down Thursday. U.S. demand for jobs is at a near-record high.

OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla El Badri said the expectation "is that the market will return to more balance in 2016,” Bloomberg reported.

Police fired tear gas at protesters throwing gasoline bombs Thursday during a nationwide strike following the acceptance of a third bailout.

Rising U.S. inventories remained a major theme driving crude prices, ANZ Bank said Thursday.

U.S. crude futures steadied in Asia after tumbling 3 percent overnight on worries about higher crude inventories.

Blackstone held talks to acquire NCR outright earlier this year but could not agree on terms, people familiar with the matter previously told Reuters.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of investors who sold Allergan shares in the two months before the defendants announced a $51 billion bid for Allergan.

DraftKings called the cease and desist order issued by New York's attorney general "hasty and uninformed" and said it was prepared to mount a legal challenge.

However, market participants around the world appeared to shrug off mixed economic data out of China Wednesday.

As employment in the U.K. expands to a record high, the Bank of England is mulling its first rate hike since 2007.

China's October industrial production growth cooled to 5.6 percent year-on-year though it was cushioned by a just-above-forecast 11 percent jump in retail sales.

The latest data from China highlights a widening gap in its economy as retail and services sectors shine while exports and heavy industries stagnate.

Melissa Click, a University of Missouri journalism professor, had a videotaped encounter Monday with student journalists during a protest on campus.

Asian share markets were narrowly mixed on Wednesday as investors anxiously awaited another batch of Chinese data while strength in the U.S. dollar kept the screws on global commodity prices. 

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