U.S. job market still on long path to recovery U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent in January, but experts believe that the jobs growth was insufficient to cure the lingeringly sick labor market in the short run. China's chemical industry output to reach 14 trillion yuan by 2015 China's petroleum and chemical industry will expand at an annual rate of 13 percent annually during the 2011-2015 period, the country's industrial authority said Friday. Wall Street ends mixed ahead of monthly jobs data U.S. stocks ended narrowly mixed on Thursday as investors were cautiously awaiting the crucial monthly jobs data, which always set the tone for the market in a week or two. • NYSE cancels merger deal with Deutsche Boerse • IMF urges LatAm economies to guard against crisis contagion • China's electronics exports, imports up 11.5 pct in 2011 • China, ROK banks to facilitate currency exchange • China imports 10.93 mln tonnes of crude oil via China-Kazakhstan pipeline More

Gold snaps 3-session winning streak as safe-haven buying wanes Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange ended moderately lower on Friday, as safe-haven buying dried up. U.S. economic recovery speeds up: Obama U.S. economic recovery was speeding up with the labor market improving, but the nation needed to take more steps to bolster the faltering recovery, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday. IMF mission to visit Japan on economic discussions A staff mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would visit Japan next week to discuss economic developments with the nation,the Washington- based global lender announced on Friday.

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