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Fed to delay rate hike until September on tame inflation outlook: Reuters poll

The U.S. Federal Reserve will likely wait until September before raising interest rates again, stretching to nine months the time since its first hike in nearly a decade, as it waits for clear signs inflation is picking up, a Reuters poll found. This is the second time this …

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DoubleLine’s Gundlach sees ‘some rebellion’ from Fed hawks

Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on Thursday that the Federal Reserve will be challenged to raise interest rates this year. Fed officials seem to be in disagreement about the timing and number of rate hikes in 2016, Gundlach, who oversees $95 billion at Los Angeles-based DoubleLine, said on an investor webcast. There's “some (hawkish) rebellion showing up at the Fed,” Gundlach said.

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Hedge fund managers give stock picks in Vegas at SALT conference

Hedge fund managers on Thursday named some of their recent investments, including a bet that shares of American Airlines Group would fall and shares of both Chinese Internet company Tencent and chipmaker Xilinx would rise, in addresses at one of the industry's most prominent conferences. John Lykouretzos, who runs $2.8 billion Hoplite Capital Management Lp, disclosed his negative case against American Airlines, which helped push the stock down as much as 4.7

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U.S. jobless claims hit 14-month high; analysts blame Verizon strike

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to a more than one-year high, but economists blamed striking telecommunications workers for the surge and said the data did not signal a deterioration in the overall labor market…

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Deutsche Boerse CEO touts LSE merger, saying ‘size is everything’

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Boerse's planned $30 billion merger with LSE Group is on track for completion late this year or in early 2017, the German exchange operator's Chief Executive Carsten Kengeter said on Wednesday.

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Stuck with dangerous dollar dominance

By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – The world is getting an object lesson on the problems of having one dominant global currency and even the supposed prime beneficiary, the United States, can see the downside…

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Stuck with dangerous dollar dominance

Oil dips on Canada output prospects, record U.S. stocks

By Simon Falush LONDON (Reuters) – Crude prices fell on Wednesday as oil sands production in Canada restarted after forced closures due to wildfires, and as already record-high inventories especially in the United States grew. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were down 44 cents at $44.22 a barrel. A battle between Middle East producers for market share in Asia also weighed on prices, countering production declines and disruptions around the world.

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Mitsubishi Motors says improper data may have been used for more models

By Naomi Tajitsu TOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi Motors Corp said on Wednesday that improper data for mileage calculations might have been used for other models in addition to those it has already disclosed. On Wednesday, it said it suspected improper…

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Dollar dips from two-week high, stocks in the red

“And that is precisely what we are seeing today.” Financials were among the biggest losers in Europe, their 1.5 percent fall led by a 10 percent plunge in Austrian bank Raiffeisen Bank International after it said it will look into a possible merger with

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U.S. Fed awards $23.24 billion in reverse repos

The Federal Reserve on Monday awarded $23.24 billion of one-day, fixed-rate reverse repurchase agreements to 17 bidders at an interest rate of 0.25 percent, the New York Fed said on its website. The reverse repurchase agreement

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