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China's Economic Slowdown Is Deliberate and Healthy, According to the IMF

The newly-elected managing director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, spoke at the Global Women’s Forum 2016 regarding the global economy, especially in the wake of the China economic slowdown. Despite the prolonged slowdown, the IMF foresee that China’s lower growth was deliberate and healthy.

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Asian Shares Reversed Its Gain After Oil Prices Retreat, Other Markets Also Under Pressure

Asian shares fell back from a seven-week high on Tuesday as oil prices fell more than 2 percent. The sudden drop happened after the Asia-Pacific indices rose to its highest level since the beginning of the year, after seeing the rise in oil prices before reversing back.

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China Replaced The Chairman of Its Top Securities Regulator Over Market Turbulence

China’s ruling party decided to replace the country’s chairman of the securities regulator, Xiao Gang, with former central banker Liu Shiyu. The regulator has taken the blame for failing to stabilize the market turbulence in the country over the year.

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PSA Peugeot Citroen Will Pay $446 Million in Compensation to Get Back to Iran's Markets

Peugeot suspended sales from Iran in 2012 following nuclear sanctions expansion to the automobile sector. Now that the sanctions are lifted, Peugeot immediately strives to reinstate partnership to come back to the markets that cost it 10 percent of global deliveries when the sales are suspended. It costs Peugeot $446 million in form of compensation and services.

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Asian Markets Shows Remarkable Rise as Crude Oil Prices Increased

The rise of oil prices had brought positive growth to most of the Asian markets, except for Japan. On the other hand, European market had seen a drop. The oil prices increased overnight due to speculations that U.S Federal Reserve would possibly decide not to increase interest rates throughout 2016.

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Veolia Acquired Silicon Valley Startup Kurion for $350 Million

The deal was a huge move forward for both Veolia and Kurion. Veoila is determined to expand its business to nuclear waste management and believes that Kurion is the perfect partner to achieve that goal. Kurion itself is a successful startup focusing in nuclear waste involved in the Fukushima nuclear incident clean-up in 2011.

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Global Coffee Prices to be Affected Due to Drought and Extreme Weather in Brazil and Colombia.

Brazil, the world's number one coffee grower and exporter, has been hit by El Nino from last year, affecting the coffee crops and harvests. The weather has affected prices expectations and investors moves, as demand rise and supply declines. Coffee bean prices rise has been seen in Brazil.

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Starbucks is Closing 4 out of Its 5 Teavana Tea Bar

Three stores in New York will be converted to Starbucks stores, one store in Beverly Hills will be closed completely, one other in Seattle will remain open. More than 350 retail locations will also continue to sell the Teavana products, and some of the menus will be incorporated into Starbucks' menu.

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Pearson Revealed £320m Restructuring Plan Which Involves 4,000 Jobs Cut

The publishing company has experienced tough times in the market where profits declined and shares dropped. The plan is expected to deliver more earnings growth in the long run with the simplification and reducing of costs. The company's chief also attributed their difficult times to challenging markets and unpredictable changes.

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Robots, Automation and Artificial Intelligence to replace Human Jobs According to The World Economic Forum

With the advancement of technologies, businesses would prefer robots or artificial intelligence as workers. However, the industries would still need growing numbers of certain skilled workers.

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Standard and Poor's Dow Jones Indices upgrades Qatar and the UAE

Qatar and UAE granted emerging market status while Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman retain frontier markets.

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WB President says US 'days away' from a 'very dangerous moment'

If the US fails to pass legislation to increase the debt limit, then the global economic system would be tremendously affected.

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Lionbridge Technologies Inc acquires E5 Systems

For the price of USD1.6 million, Lionbridge Technologies gains a foothold in the Chinese market as well as expand its revenue clientele through the acquisition of E5 Systems.

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Gulf markets hunker down as threat of military action against Syria becomes imminent

Many Gulf markets registered losses as the region prepares for the possible military action to punish the Syrian chemical attack on civilians.

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Trading Forex vs Trading Stocks

The following is a discussion on the differences and similarities between forex and stock trading.

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