Новости за 24.12.2015

SEOUL, Dec 24 (Reuters) - South Korea's National Pension Service will stop currency hedging on its overseas bond investments from 2019 after hedging is reduced between 2017 and 2018, the welfare ministry said on Thursday.

SYDNEY, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 1.3 percent in a shortened Christmas Eve session on Thursday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion occurred at a Sinopec refinery in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Thursday, the local fire department reported on its microblog.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the United States since the start of last year, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

SHANGHAI, Dec 24 (Reuters) - China Vanke Co hailed on Thursday a decision by privately owned Anbang Insurance Group to buy a stake, days after it dismissed as unwelcome a similar investment by Baoneng Group that made the insurance and property conglomerate its biggest shareholder.

WELLINGTON, Dec 24 (Reuters) - The world's biggest dairy exporter, New Zealand's Fonterra, has found itself caught in the crossfire of an unexpected new controversy: a global environmental campaign against the destruction of rainforests.

TAIPEI, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Taiwan stocks rose on Thursday driven by bargain hunting, especially in transport shares as oil prices remained at low levels, despite an offshore rally in crude prices.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With Christmas falling this year a day after Prophet Mohammad's birthday, the city of Baghdad is holding Christmas celebrations in a sign of brotherhood with Iraq's hard-pressed Christian community.

LONDON (Reuters) - Seasonal cheer has been scarce for Louis van Gaal after a six-match winless sequence for his Manchester United side intensified rumours that he will be sacked and Stoke City are unlikely to be offering any solace on Saturday.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China will stick steadfastly to the "one country, two systems" model used to administer Hong Kong, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China will stick steadfastly to the "one country, two systems" model used to administer Hong Kong, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

SHANGHAI/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After a mammoth marketing campaign, growing online chatter in China around "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" suggests the latest installment of the hit franchise has a shot at breaking box office records in the world's second-largest movie market.

WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday that an eighth U.S. death is linked to a faulty Takata airbag inflator, marking the first reported death since April and the ninth worldwide.

Johnny Depp is named Hollywood's most overpaid actor. John Russell reports.

Johnny Depp is named Hollywood's most overpaid actor. John Russell reports.

SINGAPORE, Dec 24 (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices continued rising in early trading on Thursday, headed for an 11 percent rise in the week leading up to Christmas, as the U.S. market tightened on the back of falling supplies and looming exports.

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose about 1 percent on Thursday in a shortened Christmas Eve session, taking a cue from Wall Street and helped by strong gains in banks and resources stocks.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Palantir Technologies, a data analytics and security company that helps government agencies track down terrorists and uncover financial fraud, said on Wednesday it has raised $880 million in its latest financing round.

MEXICO CITY, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Mexico's ICA has sold its stake in an environmental waste firm for around 1.2 billion pesos ($69.69 million), two people close to the negotiations said, as the embattled construction company scrambles for cash after declaring it would default.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Palantir Technologies, a data analytics and security company that helps government agencies track down terrorists and uncover financial fraud, said on Wednesday it has raised $880 million in its latest financing round.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday named 13 justices to the Supreme Court in a manoeuvre critics slammed as a last-minute court-packing scheme by the Socialist Party in the final days before it loses control of the legislature in January.

LOS ANGELES, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Southern California Gas Co and the Los Angeles City Attorney reached an agreement on Wednesday on a plan for the utility to provide temporary housing for residents living near a massive underground natural gas leak, the Los Angeles Times reported.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday that it would ask the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to put on hold all proceedings, including a trial, in a class-action lawsuit filed by its drivers over their employment status.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday that it would ask the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to put on hold all proceedings, including a trial, in a class-action lawsuit filed by its drivers over their employment status.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 24 (Reuters) - It's always tempting for commodity analysts to issue forecasts for the coming year, even though we intrinsically know that the future is inherently uncertain and even the most reasoned expectations can be easily confounded by events.