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Asia stocks sluggish ahead of U.S. jobs

Asian stocks were largely unchanged on Thursday ahead of the latest U.S. payrolls report, while the U.S. dollar remained near a three-week low against the euro, sensitive to lingering doubts about its reserve status.

Jobs data signals hurdles amid factory glimmer

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U.S. manufacturing mustered its highest level of activity in nearly a year in June but surprising weakness in private sector employment signaled how feeble an economic recovery might be, reports released on Wednesday showed.

Wall St rises on recovery hope; jobs data eyed

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Stocks rose on Wednesday, the start of the third quarter, as reassuring manufacturing data from China, Europe and the United States reinforced hopes that the world's economy is on the road to recovery.
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Web video site Joost cuts service, jobs, CEO goes

Joost, an early pioneer in bringing popular TV shows and movies to the Web, is dropping its consumer service, cutting jobs and losing its high-profile chief executive as it struggles to find revenue to survive.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs returns to work

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs is back at work following a near 6-month medical leave, although he will work at least initially from home for a few days a week, the company said on Monday.
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Apple says CEO Steve Jobs back at work

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs is back to work following a near six-month medical leave, the company said on Monday.Steve is back to work, a company spokesman said.
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Kimberly-Clark to cut about 1,600 jobs

Kimberly-Clark Corp said on Thursday that it would cut about 1,600 salaried jobs, or roughly 3 percent of its workforce, as it tries to trim costs and respond faster to rivals and store brands.
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Jobs picture dims and overshadows improved GDP

Fresh signs of weakness in U.S. job markets on Thursday underlined the strains faced by a recession-struck U.S. economy that contracted slightly less in the first quarter than previously thought.
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Tata Steel FY09 net drops 60 pct; 2,045 jobs at risk

India's Tata Steel Ltd, the world's No. 6 steel maker, on Thursday missed forecasts with a 60 percent drop in consolidated net profit for the fiscal year ended March and said 2,045 jobs in Europe units were at risk.
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Harvard cuts 275 jobs, cites drop in endowment

Harvard University announced 275 job cuts on Tuesday, the latest cost-cutting measure at the world's richest university after the financial crisis triggered big losses in its multibillion-dollar endowment
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Apple's Jobs has excellent prognosis

Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has an excellent prognosis, the hospital that performed the operation confirmed on Tuesday.
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Apple CEO Jobs at work on Monday: witness

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs was at the company's headquarters on Monday, underscoring speculation the pancreatic cancer survivor may have returned to work.
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Apple CEO Jobs spotted leaving campus

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs showed up for work on Monday and was spotted leaving the main corporate campus in Cupertino, California, a Reuters witness said.
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Steve Jobs: 'iPhone is winning'

Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of its latest iPhone model in the first three days, the company said Monday, making it the most successful model yet.
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Steve Jobs received liver transplant: report

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant operation about two months ago and is expected to return to work by the end of June, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Steve Jobs had liver transplant in Tennessee: Report

Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple for the past six months, received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago but will still return to work at the end of June, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal.
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Apple CEO Jobs had liver transplant: report

Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Inc, received a liver transplant about two months ago but is expected to return to work later this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Green shoots in U.S. jobs, factories and indicators

The U.S. economy sprouted more green shoots of recovery in data released on Thursday, with weekly jobs figures showing unexpected improvement and the slumping factory sector revealing dramatic signs of a rebound.
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Fiat to cut Italy car output, seeks support on jobs

Fiat called on Italy's government and unions to back its efforts to maintain jobs while cutting output in the country and secured a commitment from Rome on Thursday for investment near two plants that could face cuts.

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