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Business sentiment at Asia's top firms hits two-year high

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Published Wed, Jun 18, 2014 · 10:00 PM

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BUSINESS sentiment among Asia's top companies is at its best in more than two years, a joint quarterly survey by Thomson Reuters and Insead has shown.

This comes as a dark cloud of political uncertainty, particularly in India and Thailand, has been lifted.

The Asia business survey received responses from 124 companies in this part of the world. These included Japanese clothes manufacturer Fast Retailing, South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries and Australian construction firm James hardie Industries.

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