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Tokyo shares rise on US debt deal
TOKYO : Tokyo shares rose 1.71 percent on Monday after US President Barack Obama announced that he and top lawmakers had
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TOKYO: Tokyo shares rose 1.71 percent on Monday after US President Barack Obama announced that he and top lawmakers had reached an 11th-hour deal to avert a potentially disastrous debt default.
At 0100 GMT the Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 167.29 points to 10,000.32.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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