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Markets Live: ASX defies odds

2014-10-17 11:11:01| Toys - Topix.net

Amid a spike in global volatility, the ASX200 closes higher to post its biggest weekly gain in two months, as investors snap up sold-down stocks, including the big banks. Indonesia's president-elect Joko Widodo plans to r aise the price of subsidised gasoline and diesel by around 50 per cent within two weeks of taking office, a move that will save the government nearly $US13 billion next year, an adviser to Widodo told Reuters.

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A Burmese migrant battles the odds

2014-10-05 21:09:14| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A Burmese migrant shows his entrepreneurial spirit

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Google's driverless cars future at odds with automakers

2014-09-15 15:10:10| Automakers - Topix.net

Google Inc., with its vision for a future where cars drive themselves, is putting itself at odds with an auto industry that shares its desire for safer, less- congested roads -- yet won't abide the "driverless" part. Google Inc., with its vision for a future where cars drive themselves, is putting itself at odds with an auto industry that shares its desire for safer, less- congested roads -- yet won't abide the "driverless" part.

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Climate Change Ups Odds of a Southwest Megadrought

2014-08-29 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: If you think the drought in California is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. New research indicates that climate change is giving a boost to the odds of long-term drought across the Southwest. The research, published Thursday in the Journal of Climate, puts the chances of a megadrought lasting 35 years or longer at up to 50 percent in the region. It would be a drought of epic proportions that would wreak havoc on the region's already tenuous water supply for its growing population. "It's been...

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