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Japan Consumer Inflation Uptick Offers Tailwind for BOJ Rate Hike

Consumer prices, excluding fresh food, climbed 2.1% in September from a year earlier, which will likely reinforce market views that the Bank of Japan will tighten policy settings in December.

Japan Consumer Inflation Uptick Offers Tailwind for BOJ Rate Hike

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LNG Canada Doubles Capacity as Asia Looks Beyond the Gulf

Last month, Shell (NYSE:SHEL), alongside Malaysia's PETRONAS, China's PetroChina, Mitsubishi Corporation and KOGAS, officially approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the LNG Canada Phase 2…

  • LNG Canada's Phase 2 project to double capacity to 28 million tons annually
  • Canada positioned to export 33 mtpa of LNG by decade's end
  • Asian demand for LNG projected to double to 500 mtpa by 2060

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