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U.S. mortgage applications fall in latest week: MBA
Applications for U.S. home mortgages fell last week as interest rates rose to the highest level since March, an industry group said on Wednesday.
Facebook to let nine news companies publish news to mobile feeds
Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch "Instant Articles" that will let them publish articles directly to the social network's mobile news feeds.
German bund yields climb, lift euro; stocks ease
German bond yields climbed on Tuesday on optimism that inflation may have bottomed in the euro zone, lifting demand for the euro, while volatility in global bond markets weighed on stock indexes.
Oil up 3 percent in largest gain in three weeks; volatility threatens
Oil rose 3 percent on Tuesday, the most in three weeks, as a weak dollar lifted commodities denominated in the currency and OPEC raised slightly its forecast for world oil demand growth.