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UPDATE 2-Amid sour ag economy, Deere to buy Monsanto equipment maker unit
2015-11-04 12:26:23| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Monsanto Co's Climate Corp will sell its Precision Planting farm equipment business to Deere & Co for an undisclosed sum, a move that underscores how turmoil in the agriculture sector has made it ripe for consolidation. For Climate, a unit of the world's largest seed company, the deal marks the latest push to shed businesses that are not focused on either software or services, Climate President Mike Stern said.
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India Drought 2015: Climate Change Biggest Threat India Economy, Modi Finance Aide Says
2015-11-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...
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Climate change could have a significant impact on our economy
2015-11-02 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: Climate change may have many economic impacts, including loss of crops, changes in water supply, increased incidence of natural disaster, and spikes in health care costs related to infectious diseases and temperature-related illnesses. However, hard evidence about the effects of climate change on economic activity has been inconsistent. A new paper published in Nature takes on the ambitious task of connecting micro- and macro-level estimates of climate costs. The study finds that climate change...
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VIDEO: Myanmar seeks a more open economy
2015-10-29 01:50:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
As Myanmar approaches a historic election, its economy is slowly opening up, as Karishma Vaswani reports from Yangon.
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What is the current state of the UK economy?
2015-10-27 01:22:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Plenty of good signs in the UK economy - but not everything is rosy
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