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The rapid growth of electronic cigarette sales poses a rising but under-appreciated risk to holders of as much as $96 billion of bonds tied to payments tobacco companies make to U.S. states from a sweeping legal settlement in 1998.

Morgan Stanley now has new critic: the Chinese government. An editorial in the state media says the U.S.

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FXStreet (Bali) – EUR/JPY is trading at 138.52, down -0.10% on the day, having posted a daily high…

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Asian shares clinched slender gains on Tuesday as improved manufacturing data from China, Japan and the United States augured well for global growth, despite a disappointing result from the euro zone. Though moves were modest as markets slipped into something of a summer lull, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan managed to gain 0.3 percent. Japan’s Nikkei lagged by losing 0.36 percent, but South Korea outperformed with a rise of almost 1 percent, led by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Hyundai Motor Co.

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It took Western safety inspectors only about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters Ltd, a Bangladesh clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and Debenhams (DEB.L). Such erratic decision-making poses a new set of problems for Bangladesh’s $22 billion garments industry, whose safety record has been under the microscope since the collapse of a factory near Dhaka that killed more than 1,100 workers last year.

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FXStreet (Bali) – Thomas Anthonj, FX Strategist at JPMorgan, notes that a straight extension of the…

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FXStreet (Bali) – The Asian session developed in very slow motion, with tight ranges prevailing,…

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