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Defence deal will prove controversial amid claims of involvement in Yemeni conflict
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* Melrose could be forced to raise bid
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March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. energy companies this week cut oil
rigs for the first time in seven weeks even as crude prices
hovered near a three-year high, prompting more drillers to boost
spending plans for 2018.
Drillers cut four oil rigs in the week...
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March 9 (Reuters) - Lloyd Blankfein could step down as
Goldman Sachs Group Inc chief executive as soon as the
end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday,
swiveling the focus on fierce competition between the two
contenders to replace him.
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NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - The sentencing hearing for
Martin Shkreli, the former drug company executive who made
headlines by jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug before he
was found guilty of defrauding investors, began on Friday with a
plea for leniency from his lawyer.
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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - Comcast's gatecrashing
of Rupert Murdoch's eight-year campaign to buy pay-TV group Sky
has sparked a regulatory race with 21st Century Fox
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ACAPULCO, March 9 (Reuters) - Trade protectionism poses a
risk to economic growth and inflation in Mexico, the country's
central bank governor said on Friday, in the same week that U.S.
President Donald Trump said he would press ahead with tariffs on
steel and aluminum.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla., March 9 (Reuters) - Excess financial
leverage more than recent stock market gyrations, experts say,
was behind the derailment of several popular investment
strategies that employed options and futures to bet on low
market volatility, seemingly giving derivatives a black eye.
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* German industrial output falls
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WARSAW, March 9 (Reuters) - The Warsaw bourse, GPW,
has failed to make a shortlist of bidders for the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange following a diplomatic row over Poland's new law on the
Holocaust, a Polish newspaper reported.