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BERLIN (Reuters) - Inflation eased in five economically important German states in the month of May, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that national price rises are set to slow to their lowest in more than a year. | 05:10am

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's freight logistics group Transnet has suspended operations on its main iron ore railway line due to cable theft, it said in a statement on Wednesday. | 02:14pm

(MT Newswires) -- Asian stock markets fell back on Wednesday, after Beijing reported soft factory data for May, undercutting confidence in the recovery of the Sino economy, the region's behemoth. Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo lost ground, as did other reg... | 06:53am

(MT Newswires) -- Canada's main stock market, the Toronto Stock Exchange, closed down another 167 points on Wednesday, adding to the near 230 points lost Tuesday, as oil prices remain weak, taking the resources heavy S&P/TSX Composite Index back under... | May. 31

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has lifted a 20-year-old ban on sea sand exports, a copy of a government regulation showed, a measure that could help land expansion projects in neighbour Singapore, but with concern among environmentalists about marine habitats. | 05:29am

(Reuters) - French tyre maker Michelin said on Friday it was selling its activities Russia Tyre Manufacturing Company (MRTMC) and Camso CIS in Russia to Power International Tires, a tire distributor in the country. | 04:24am

LONDON/ANKARA (Reuters) - As Turkey's lira hit a record low ahead of the country's election decider on Sunday, the currency is looking increasingly dysfunctional with investors concerned about what may be in store if Tayyip Erdogan secures another decade in power. | 09:30am

(MT Newswires) -- The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was 0.2% higher, and the actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) increased by 0.4% in Friday's premarket activity, amid media reports that ongoing debt ceiling talks ... | 08:25am

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (Reuters) - Another two rate hikes from the European Central Bank are still on the cards but moves further out remain open to debate as inflation is still stubborn, Irish central bank chief Gabriel Makhlouf said. | 11:10am

LONDON (Reuters) - British bond prices slid again on Thursday as investors added to their bets that high inflation will force the Bank of England into more interest rate increases, with short-dated gilts on track for one of the biggest weekly falls of the last 20 years. | 05:35am