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Wall St. stocks volatile after Fed holds steady on rates | Reuters

U.S. stocks were up in volatile afternoon trading on Thursday after the Federal Reserve held off on raising interest rates in a nod to concerns about global economic weakness

Fed holds rates steady in nod to global economic weakness | Reuters

WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday in a nod to concerns about a weak world economy, but left open the possibility of a modest policy tightening later this year

OPEC sees oil prices returning to $80/barrel by 2020 | Reuters

REUTERS - OPEC forecasts oil prices will grow by no more than $5 per barrel a year to reach $80 by 2020, with rival non-OPEC production growth slowing but not fast enough to fully clear the current oil glut, according to OPEC sources.

OPEC sees oil prices returning to $80/barrel by 2020 | Reuters

REUTERS - OPEC forecasts oil prices will grow by no more than $5 per barrel a year to reach $80 by 2020, with rival non-OPEC production growth slowing but not fast enough to fully clear the current oil glut, according to OPEC sources. The sources said the figures came from an updated mid-term strategy report discussed this week by the representatives from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, which has yet to be fully endorsed by OPEC ministers. The report forecasts that non-OPEC supply would amount to 58.2 million barrels per day by 2017, some 1 million barrels per day lower than in the previous forecast

Wall Street slightly higher in thin trading ahead of Fed | Reuters

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World stocks at three-week highs as Fed decision looms | Reuters

LONDON World stocks inched to a three-week high and the dollar drifted lower on Thursday before the Federal Reserve announces whether it will raise U.S.

Oil slips as Japan data outweighs U.S. stock draw | Reuters

LONDON Oil prices fell on Thursday after weak Japanese data sounded alarm bells over the prospects for global growth, outweighing the bullish impact of a bigger-than-expected decline in U.S.

Warning shots heard near Burkina presidential palace - witnesses | Reuters

OUAGADOUGOU Soldiers fired warning shots outside Burkina Faso's presidential palace on Wednesday as hundreds of people gathered to protest the detention of government leaders inside by the elite presidential guard, witnesses said. The warning shots, fired by unidentified soldiers as night fell on the capital, caused the crowd to retreat slightly but not to disperse

Netanyahu to Russia next week for talks on Syria - Israeli official | Reuters

JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Russia next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the expanding Russian military presence in Syria, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. "The prime minister will present the threats to Israel emanating from the increased flow of advanced weaponry to the Syrian arena and from the transfer of lethal weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups," the official said. Moscow has come under international pressure to explain its moves in Syria, where the Kremlin has been supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a 4-year-old civil war

GE to move U.S. jobs overseas in fight over export credits | Reuters

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK General Electric Co ( GE.N ) said on Tuesday it will move as many as 500 U.S. power turbine manufacturing jobs to Europe and China because it can no longer access U.S.