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TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - Share prices are expected to open firmer following gains in US stocks Friday, aided by a 36 bln usd stock buyback announced by Microsoft Corp, although some investors may opt to pocket profits after the Nikkei 225 index hit a fresh three-month high Friday, dealers said. Investors may also be cautious in pushing up shares aggressively ahead of the US housing data this week and a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Asking prices for homes in England and Wales fell in the period from early July to early August as a mini-boom in the south of England ran out of steam, a survey showed on Monday. Property Web site Rightmove said asking prices fell by 1.6 percent in the period compared with a year earlier, bringing the annual rate of house price inflation back into single digits at 9 percent.  ...

LONDON (AFX) - BHP Billiton PLC will this week announce plans to return at least 3 bln usd to shareholders, despite the strike at its Escondida copper mine in Chile, The Sunday Telegraph reported without citing sources. Copper prices, already at record levels, soared after the mining company closed Escondida on Friday, the newspaper said. Workers had already been on strike for 12 days over pay de ...

ELK CITY, Okla. (AFX) - Suzy Spieker's telephone rings as many as 10 times a day with calls from people wanting to move to the Oklahoma frontier to get in on the money. Want a rental? Join the list, the Elk City real estate agent tells them. Want to buy? Her book of three-bedroom home listings has been whittled to a single page by an influx of oil and gas field workers. "One sheet -- not ...