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INSIGHT-U.S. firms fear financing drought as deadline looms for trade bank

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - A battle in Congress that could shut down the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank next week is already causing headaches for small exporters as they try to stop customers from defecting to foreign competitors and as export financing starts to freeze up.

HIGHLIGHTS-Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Q2 Asian Business Sentiment Survey - by sector

June 24 (Reuters) - Business sentiment at Asia's top companies was little changed in the second quarter from the first, with the building sector reporting the most optimistic outlook, followed by the food sector's most upbeat reading in two years.

UPDATE 1-Shell's Arctic plan counters U.S. walrus protections-green groups

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Green groups urged the U.S. Department of Interior on Tuesday to revoke the agency's conditional approval of Royal Dutch Shell's 2015 Arctic oil exploration plan, saying it runs counter to established protections for walruses.

U.S. judge temporarily blocks new fracking rules on public lands

June 23 (Reuters) - A U.S.

UPDATE 3-Brazil graft probe could ensnare Eletrobras, foreign firms -prosecutor

CURITIBA, Brazil, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest corruption investigation could spread to its largest electric utility, Eletrobras, and more than a dozen foreign companies, a lead prosecutor said on Tuesday, in a sign of further turbulence for the country's business and political establishment.

UPDATE 2-Brazil graft probe could ensnare Eletrobras, foreign firms -prosecutor

CURITIBA, Brazil, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest corruption investigation could spread to its biggest electric utility, Eletrobras, and more than a dozen foreign companies, a lead prosecutor said on Tuesday, in a sign of further turbulence for the country's business and political establishment.

Petronas selects Axens' technology for Rapid project in Malaysia

Malaysia’s national oil and gas company, Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas), has selected Axens as a technology provider for the pefinery and petrochemicals integrated development (RAPID) project located in Pengerang, Johor.

UPDATE 1-Adani halts work on Australia's Carmichael coal mine project - Guardian

June 23 (Reuters) - India's Adani Mining has asked its four engineering contractors working on the Carmichael project to halt work around the mine, the Guardian Australia reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

No let-up seen in Santiago's driest June in 50 years

SANTIAGO, June 23 (Reuters) - The Chilean capital of Santiago has experienced the driest June in half a century, leading to headache-inducing levels of pollution and Andean ski slopes bereft of snow, with no rain clouds on the horizon, meteorologists say.

UPDATE 2-Canadian energy companies TransCanada and Encana cut jobs

CALGARY, Alberta, June 23 (Reuters) - Pipeline company TransCanada Corp and oil and gas producer Encana Corp both said on Tuesday they were cutting jobs, joining other Canadian energy firms that have laid off staff since global oil prices slumped.

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