| After 100 days, Indonesia's President says he still goes to the people
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 By Mick Krever, CNN It would be easy not to pay Joko Widodo a second glance as he rides his bike down a Jakarta boulevard wearing track pants and white sneakers. But fill that boulevard with thousands of Javanese out for the Sunday stroll, and you soon realize he is no ordinary Indonesian. "Jokowi!" they shout - using the nickname by which the country's new President is universally referred - reaching out to him for handshakes and selfies. "Pagi!" - "Good morning!" Since October he's been the President of this enormous Pacific archipelago of about 250 million people - the largest Muslim-majority country in the world. READ MORE
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| Morning MoneyBeat Asia: Markets Take Greek Election in Stride
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 Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Market Snap: At the New York close: S&P 500 gained 0.3%, to 2057.09.. DJIA less than 0.1% to 17678.70. Nasdaq Comp added 0.3% to 4771.76. Treasury yields higher; 10-year up to 1.83%. Nymex crude oil down 1% to $45.15. Gold lost 1% to $1279.40/ounce. To receive this morning newsletter via email, click here: http://on.wsj.com/... How We Got Here: U.S. stocks cruised to modest gains, as investors took the victory of an antiausterity party in Greece's weekend election in stride. In national elections on Sunday, Greek voters handed power to a radical left party which has spoken out against the fiscal austerity imposed on Greece in exchange for an international bailout for its economy. Greek stocks fell, but the effect on other European markets appeared limited. U.S. stocks ended modestly higher, with investors and traders saying the financial stress in Greece was unlikely to spread to other countries in the European Union. Others said that the European Central ...
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| Peru's Congress Repeals Youth Labor Law
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 Peru's Congress on Monday repealed a hotly contested law aimed at changing the labor code for youths, the latest blow against the increasingly unpopular government led by President Ollanta Humala.
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| Carnival in Talks on China Cruise Joint Ventures
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 Carnival is in talks with state-owned China Merchants Group to form two joint ventures in China that will build cruising ports and ships and expand the nascent industry in a booming tourism market.
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