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U.K. stocks advanced, with the FTSE 100 Index rebounding from its lowest level in 2 1/2 weeks, as shares of banks and mining companies rallied.
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U.K. stocks erased their decline as John Wood Group Plc and Tate & Lyle Plc advanced.
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Natural gas futures in New York surged the most in four months, settling at a 20-month high, as cold weather helped erase a stockpile surplus and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its 2013 gas price forecast.
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General Electric Co. agreed to buy the well-support division of John Wood Group Plc for about $2.8 billion, adding equipment that helps extract more oil and gas from mature fields. Shares of both companies climbed.
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Asian stocks outside Japan declined, led by material producers and developers, on concern policy makers in China will step up efforts to cool the property market and as Hong Kong banks raised mortgage rates.
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General Electric Co. agreed to buy the well-support division of John Wood Group Plc for about $2.8 billion, adding equipment that helps extract more oil and gas from mature fields to round out its offerings.
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Natural gas may slide next week as demand for the heating fuel tapers in the U.S. with the approach warmer weather, a Bloomberg survey showed.
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Petroleos de Venezuela SA , the South American nation’s state oil company, said a John Wood Group Plc unit filed an international arbitration request, seeking about $100 million in compensation for assets nationalized in 2009.
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John Wood Group Plc, a U.K. oil services provider active in Africa and the Middle East, said profit climbed 43 percent last year as demand rose.
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European stocks posted their biggest weekly advance in two months as employers in the U.S. increased their payrolls more than forecast and optimism mounted that central banks will continue to stimulate their economies.
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