OTTAWA (Dow Jones)--Crude oil futures declined 1% Friday as US equities faltered, reviving concerns about the pace of economic recovery and oil demand.
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's finance ministry has issued a commercial banking licence to China's largest bank, the country's central bank announced Friday.
NEW YORK - Gold prices finished higher for a sixth straight day Friday, rising even as the dollar strengthened. The December contract added $4.90 to settle at $1146.80 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Bank of Japan and the Japanese Finance Ministry have embarked on a bizarre public row over the threat of deflation and whether the country's economy is poised for a recovery or slump.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Hershey Co.'s controlling trust wants the company to make a $17 billion bid for Cadbury Plc, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
LONDON - Hell is pushing into the UK market with an experiential campaign to promote its engery drink. Marketing the first UK-specific activity for the brand, which has already ...
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A bigger-than-expected drop in Dell's latest quarterly earnings and a pullback for global industrials, including Caterpillar, pushed stocks lower Friday, though continued strength for some ...
DENVER - A shrinking labor force and about 1000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at 6.9 percent, a slight decrease from the previous month, the state Department of Labor and Employment said ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc (DELL.O) shares fell 9 percent on Friday after the company posted weaker-than-expected quarterly profit and sales, as it lost share in the global personal computer market.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When the US holiday shopping season kicks off on the day after Thanksgiving, retailers can expect to see millions of less frightened but even more bargain hungry customers cross their thresholds.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Standard & Poor's, Moody's Corp. and Fitch Inc. were sued by Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, who said the three companies disregarded their responsibility to provide “accurate credit ratings of ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - US electric sports car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.
United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) plans to raise shipping rates an average of 4.9% for packages shipping by ground and air and packages sent to other countries from the US The world's largest package shipper said the increase for air express and ...
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell for a second day as the dollar strengthened against the euro, reducing the appeal of commodities to investors, and equity markets declined.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. may get as much as $400 million in incentives to build its new 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina, Governor Mark Sanford said in an interview today.
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold slipped lower in Europe on Friday as the dollar firmed, dampening the momentum which has lifted prices more than 9 percent this month after reports of central bank gold buying.
Some of the largest shareholders in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have urged the Wall Street firm to reduce the size of its bonus pool, arguing that it should pass along more of its blockbuster earnings to investors, according to people ...
Yesterday, another interesting amendment (.pdf) to the House's financial regulation bill made it through committee. It would require an audit of the Federal Reserve.
BANGALORE (Reuters) - JM Smucker Co (SJM.N), best known for its peanut butter and jelly, posted higher-than-expected quarterly results, driven by strong margins at its Folgers coffee business, and raised its full-year profit outlook, sending its shares ...
Herman Van Rompuy is the 'shrewd master of the .. - Dailymail Devoid of patriotism and contemptuous of democracy, Herman Van Rompuy perfectly embodies the culture of the EU. His sole political ideal is the creation of a federal superstate, destroying national identities across Europe.
Husam claims conspiracy against him - My-1 By Adib Zalkapli KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 - Kelantan executive councillor Datuk Husam Musa claimed today that there was a conspiracy to have him removed from the state government.
A Condemnation of Sparkly Vampires - Theatlantic Twilight falls on the United States again today with the release of New Moon, the second movie based on Stephenie Meyer's series about a benevolent vampire and the human girl he falls obsessively in love with.
How will California's new TV energy standards .. - Features On Wednesday, the California Energy Commission approved new energy-efficiency standards to regulate how much electricity television sets sold in the state can consume.
F News - Pcworld Immediately after Comcast was able to address the hack , the ISP ( Internet service provider) and Network Solutions, the registrar, said they didn't know how ...
Mobile Phones - Onlineprnews This week's revelation surrounds the possibility of Xbox 360 and PS3-quality graphics being implemented for mobile phones . At a recent expo in London, ...
Fox News Poll: Worries About Safety of Swine Flu .. - Foxnews The H1N1 flu vaccine has been rolling out more slowly than many public health officials had hoped. But a recent Fox News poll suggests that even when the vaccine becomes more widely available, concern over its safety may prevent many at-risk Americans ...
Tree too heavy for crane - Ananova A Californian couple got the shock of their lives when they returned home to find a 90ft crane had cut their house in two. The crane had been trying to move ...
