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* Win for U.S. firms seeking access to $40 trillion finance
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Ousted Nissan Motor Co
boss Carlos Ghosn's lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, has resigned
following his client's flight to Lebanon, NHK reported on
Thursday, citing comments from the lawyer.

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The European Investment Bank
(EIB) will offer 50 million euros ($56 million) in debt
financing for Estonian ride-sharing service Bolt, aiming to
boost development of the platform in its battle against bigger
global rival Uber.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI), an investment plan aiming to connect Europe with Asia, is
sidelining European companies and Brussels should review its
competition law to level the playing field, a business lobby
said on Thursday.
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China's yuan firmed on Thursday
as investors cautiously welcomed the signing of a Phase 1 deal
between China and the United States, but equities wavered as the
agreement left a number of deeper issues unresolved.
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The state of Florida has reached a deal
with a private real estate firm to buy a large swath of
environmentally sensitive wetlands in the heart of the
Everglades to spare the tract from oil drilling, the governor
announced on Wednesday.

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China's new home prices rose
0.3% in December month-on-month, unchanged from the pace in
November, Reuters calculated from official National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) data on Thursday.

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Australian and New Zealand shares soared
to fresh peaks on Thursday as investors cheered a long-awaited
preliminary trade deal inked between China and the United
States, with the Aussie benchmark index crossing the 7,000
level.
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Takeover target Caltex Australia
has signed a confidentiality agreement with Alimentation
Couche-Tard that gives the Canadian firm access to
select non-public information in the hope that it will raise its
offer.

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Thunderstorms and heavy rain
swept across parts of Australia's east coast on Thursday,
bringing hope that some of the fierce bushfires razing the
country will be extinguished - or at least slowed.

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