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Singapore Air axes its safety net

  Singapore Airlines Ltd. likes to project a certain consistency. Its female flight attendants wear a uniform that hasn’t significantly changed since the airline’s founding. The shares have traded for several years at an almost fixed price of S$10 apiece. And its board hardly ever takes on a cent of net debt. That’s about to change, Abhishek Vishnoi of Bloomberg …

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Start worrying about emerging markets

  For all the hand-wringing over when and how the Federal Reserve would begin tapering its massive bond-buying program, emerging nations appear to be relatively well-prepared for higher U.S. interest rates. Compared with the period before the 1997 financial crisis, many of them have ably shored up their defenses — freeing exchange rates, amassing foreign-exchange reserves and paring back their …

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Aramco boosts fuel-trading in fight for Asia, Africa sales

  Bloomberg Saudi Aramco is seeking to boost its fuel-trading volume by more than a third as the world’s biggest crude exporter expands its capacity to refine oil to grab a bigger share of growing markets in Asia and Africa. Aramco, as Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is known, is building refineries in the kingdom and in Asia to help it …

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