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CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Hurricane batters Bahamas before likely heading up U.S. East Coast

NASSAU, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Slow-moving Hurricane Joaquin pounded the Bahamas for a second day with powerful winds and waves on Friday but it was not expected to be a major threat to the U.S. East Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Russian FinMin: greater tax burden for exporters seen for one year

SOCHI, Russia, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Friday plans to increase taxes on the country's exporters due to a slide in the rouble would be for one year.

Vietnam struggles to sell bonds as funding challenge mounts

HANOI, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Vietnam has sold only half of the bonds it had hoped to this year, the Finance Ministry said on Friday, complicating efforts to raise funds for spending projects as public debt climbs.

UPDATE 4-Oil edges up on U.S. economy optimism, Syria fears

* Longer-term oil price outlook bearish on oversupply (Updates with latest price action)

VW probe must not turn in to industry witch hunt -German minister

MADRID, Oct 2 (Reuters) - An investigation into the emissions fixing scandal at the car firm Volkswagen should not turn in to a campaign against the industry as a whole, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday at a conference in Madrid.

RPT-Oil bust saps U.S. students' enthusiasm for petroleum degrees

NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Enrollment in U.S. petroleum engineering degree programs fell for the first time in 13 years this fall, as an oil industry slump makes college students wary of entering the boom and bust world of oil and gas.

Student-built solar motorbikes hit the road in Kenya

URUDI, Kenya, Oct 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - M otorcycle taxi operators waiting for passengers in this village in western Kenya's Kisumu County lounge on their various machines - but Alfred Omondi's plug-in electric scooter stands out from the crowd.

COLUMN-Uncertainty about China hangs over oil rebalancing: Kemp

(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own) By John Kemp LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Substantially lower oil prices are on the way to rebalancing the oil market, as demand accelerates and both shale and other non-OPEC oil production turns down. But how quickly the rebalancing is completed depends critically on whether rapid demand growth reported in the first half of 2015 can be sustained in the second half of the year and into 2016. A fragile global

UPDATE 1-With days numbered, Dauphin focused on Trafigura transition

LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - When Claude Dauphin, the billionaire founder of Trafigura, was diagnosed with cancer two years ago, few doubted he would entirely abandon the fierce work ethic or grueling travel that helped him build one of the world's biggest commodity traders.

UPDATE 1-Gazprom chief says gas exports to Europe up 23 pct in third quarter

SOCHI, Russia, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russian gas giant Gazprom has exported 41.4 billion cubic metres of gas to Europe and Turkey in the third quarter, up 23 percent from the year-earlier period, the company's head Alexei Miller said on Friday.

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