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Asian stocks under pressure as pandemic concerns outweigh stimulus hopes

By Pete Schroeder and Julie Zhu WASHINGTON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks came under pressure on Tuesday as investors struggled to balance hopes for more economic stimulus and vaccines with anxiety over a surge in COVID-19 infections. A mixed Asian open followed a similarly mixed Wall Street session with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closing at a record high as investors flocked to...

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ANZ, Citi, Deutsche Bank committed for trial in Australian court on criminal cartel charges

(Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator on Tuesday said Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Deutsche Bank AG (DE:DBKGn) and senior executives have been committed to Australian Federal Court for trial on criminal cartel charges, in the country's biggest white collar criminal case. The regulator has...

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Scientists warn of ‘critical oversight’ in EU green finance rules

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - More than 100 scientists have urged the European Commission to address urgently a "critical oversight" in its planned rules on sustainable finance that they say could undermine the bloc's climate change goals. The European Union last month published a first set of draft criteria for its sustainable finance taxonomy - a system of classifying investments that...

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