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Chinese electric car maker to sell buses in USA

  SHENZHEN / AP The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan or GM is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus. Detouring around the cost and risk of consumer sales, BYD Co. has quietly built a U.S. business supplying rechargeable buses to environmentally-minded transit agencies. Its factory north of ...

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UK unemployment rises, labour mkt cools

  Bloomberg U.K. unemployment rose for the first time in seven months and employers added far fewer jobs than forecast, suggesting the labor market is cooling. The number of people looking for work climbed by 21,000 to 1.7 million in the three months through February, the Office for National Statistics in London said on Wednesday. That left the jobless rate ...

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Russia-Germany gas link divides Europe: EU energy commissioner

  Bloomberg A plan to expand a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is driving a wedge into the European Union, with some eastern members feeling their needs are being overlooked by the richer and more energy-diversified west, the bloc’s top energy official said. The €10-billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline isn’t aligned with the principles of the bloc’s laws ...

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