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BERLIN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Brazil suffered the sharpest deterioration in public perceptions of corruption last year, global watchdog Transparency International (TI) said in its annual report published on Wednesday that showed graft remains pervasive worldwide.

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Australian shares fell 0.7 percent on Wednesday, led by losses in energy and banking stocks, while New Zealand and much of Asia put on modest gains on Wall Street's strength.

* Support measures put artificial floor under mainland stocks

BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Profits earned by Chinese industrial firms in December fell 4.7 percent from a year earlier, the seventh straight month of declines, as the slowing economy hits sales and forces many companies to cut prices to win business.

CARACAS, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Venezuela's oil minister will tour OPEC and non-OPEC countries in a bid to drum up support for joint action to stem the tumble in crude prices, President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday night.

South Korea based chemical company, LG Chem has scrapped its plan to build $4.2bn petrochemical complex in Kazakhstan due to plunging oil prices.

NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The blizzard that battered the U.S. East Coast over the weekend may be just a taste of what is to come, as February is usually the snowiest month and is likely to be snowier this year because of the El Nino weather phenomenon, weather experts say.

PJSC RusHydro and equipment manufacturer Voith Hydro have approved preliminary terms of a deal to optimize costs associated with rehabilitation of the 1,360-MW Saratovskaya hydroelectric plant.

PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan 26 (Reuters) - Hedge funds are starting the year off negative.

* Indexes end up: Dow 1.78 pct, S&P 1.41 pct, Nasdaq 1.09 pct (Adds Apple trading after quarterly results, paragraph 5)

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