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Westpac Banking Corp said on
Thursday its chief financial officer Peter King will retire next
year after spending 25 years with Australia's second largest
bank.

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Schemes would upgrade existing lines rather than building new ones
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UK fund assets totalled 7.7
trillion pounds ($9.50 trillion) in 2018, steady from the
previous year but failing to rise for the first time since 2008
due to political and market uncertainty, the sector's leading
trade body said on Thursday.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev said on
Thursday it is continuing to explore an initial public offering
in Hong Kong of its Asia Pacific unit, Budweiser Brewing Company
APAC Ltd, two months after saying it will not proceed
with the planned listing.
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* TIMELINE-LSE: A story of failed mega mergers
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Australian shares are likely to open
higher on Thursday, tracking Wall Street, after China's decision
to exempt some U.S. goods from tariffs boosted market sentiment.
China exempted some U.S. anti-cancer drugs and other goods
from its tariffs ahead of trade talks slated for early October.
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The European Central Bank is
set to unveil fresh stimulus measures on Thursday to prop up the
ailing euro zone economy, but its exact moves are far from
certain and a decision that underwhelms markets risks pushing up
borrowing costs.
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U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted with
envy on Wednesday about the ultra-low, even negative interest
rates in other parts of the world, berating what he called the
"boneheads" at the Federal Reserve for not following suit.
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
LP reached a tentative agreement with some plaintiffs to resolve
litigation over its alleged role in fueling the U.S. opioid
crisis and plans to tussle with states opposing the settlement
offer in bankruptcy proceedings as soon as next week, people
familiar with the matter said.
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Government foresees possible days-long delays at ports and shortages of food, medicine and fuel
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