Italians were supposed to be on a "pasta strike" this week but it was called off after prices for the national staple started to fall. Zoom out, though, and global food prices are still far higher than a year ago, despite precipitous drops in the cost of key raw materials.

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LONDON Markets are on the alert to which sectors will buckle under the sharpest jump in interest rates

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By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON Limiting the foreign reach of American trademark law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday

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By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve will have to increase rates if prices growth moves away from target