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• 6 Nuclear Power Reactors For Andhra. Deal On, But ...: Foreign Media

  

  The leaders of India and the United States on Tuesday vowed to ratify the Paris climate accord this year, pledged to nail down terms for limiting a potent greenhouse gas used as a refrigerant in air conditioners, and set a one-year deadline for concluding a deal for six commercial nuclear power plants. But the two sides provided few specifics about how they would achieve those goals beyond saying that Presiden..

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• Salesforce Beefs Up Lightning App Development Tools

  

  TOP OF THE NEWS   JUNE 8, 2016 CLOUD COMPUTING MS Rolls Out Planner on Office 365 To improve employee collaboration.

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• UPDATE 1-Chinese copper imports jump by 19.4 pct in May on year-customs data

  

  * Copper imports rise 19.4 pct in May on year* Jan-May copper imports jump 22 pct* China copper concentrate imports surge 45 pct on year* Aluminium exports at 420,000 tonnes, up 5 pct on month (Adds copper concentrate imports, comment)SHANGHAI, June 8 China's copper imports jumped 19.4 percent from the same month a year ago to 430,000 tonnes in May, customs data showed on Wednesday, swelling already ample supply that is expected to reduce metal imports in coming months.Shipments into China h..

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• Asian shares return to gains as markets digest China trade data

  

  SINGAPORE/TOKYO Asian shares edged up on Wednesday, as markets digested Chinese trade data against the backdrop of a brightening energy sector outlook and an expected delay in interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve. European markets though were poised for a subdued start, with financial spreadbetters expecting Britain's FTSE 100 and France's CAC to open down 0.2 percent, and Germany's DAX to start the day 0.3 percent lower. The MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japa..

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• Smartphone sales growth will drop to single digits in 2016, says Gartner

  

  Analyst Gartner is expecting a big drop in smartphone sales growth, projecting the market will shrink from 14.4 per cent growth in 2015 to just 7 per cent in 2016 — with only 1.5 billion smartphone units being shipped globally this year. The high watermark for smartphone sales was back in 2010, when Gartner notes the market grew 73 per cent. The signs of a slowdown in the global smartphone market have been clear for more than a year, with mature Western markets saturated and China’s growth eng..

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• By 2020, half the world's wealth will be controlled by millionaires

  

  The trend will likely accelerate in the next five years, as the largest wealth gains are expected to go to those at the very top of the top. U.S. households worth $20 million or more will see their wealth growth by more than 7.6 percent over the next five years, according to the report. Those in the U.S. worth $1 million to $20 million will see there wealth grow 5.7 percent, while those worth less than $1 million will see their wealth grow 1.2 percent. The strongest growth in global millio..

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• 12-Year-Old Boy Stabbed During Bank Robbery 'Doing Well'

  

  SAN LEANDRO (CBS SF) — A 12-year-old boy who was stabbed by an erratic woman trying to rob bank customers in San Leandro on Monday is recovering from surgery and “doing well,” a police lieutenant said Tuesday. The boy, identified Tuesday as Jacob Soriano, was sitting in a lobby chair at the Wells Fargo bank at 1298 E. 14th St. at about 11:30 a.m. waiting for a relative to finish a bank transaction. He was suddenly stabbed three times in the back, including a deep wound near his neck, by a woman..

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• Overnight Finance: GOP chairman rolls out Dodd-Frank reforms

  

  HENSARLING ROLLS OUT DODD-FRANK REPLACEMENT: A leading House Republican has unveiled the GOP plan to regulate Wall Street and replace the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.A new bill introduced by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) would fundamentally remake the financial regulation landscape, and eradicate major pieces of President Obama's Wall Street reform law.Congressional Republicans have considered dozens of smaller bills tweaking the sweeping 2010 law. But ..

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