month peak on the stronger dollar. Gold futures fell 0.6 percent to $1,208.50 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Oil prices climbed ahead of weekly U.S. inventory data on evidence the global market is tightening. West Texas Intermediate (...)
كشفت دراسة جديدة نشرتها صحيفة (ديلي ميرور) اليوم الاثنين، عن أن رجال بريطانيا أكثر إنغماساً في الملذات من نسائها، وأكثر إنفاقاً على أنفسهم، ووجدت الدراسة التي أجرتها شركة (كابيتال وان) لبطاقة الإئتمان، أن البريطانيين ينفقون على أنفسهم 18 جنيهاً (...)
As expected, Pakistan's key economic indicators remain depressing. According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2010-11, the country's real Gross Domestic Product growth is estimated at a slim 2.4 percent against the targeted 4.5 percent. Inflation (...)
THOUSAND OAKS, California: Tiger Woods' miserable year ended with more disappointment as he gave up a four-stroke lead and suffered a crushing playoff loss to Graeme McDowell in the Chevron World Challenge Sunday.
It marked the first time that (...)
“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” proved worth its weight in box office gold, netting a whopping $19 million in its first weekend out, industry data showed Sunday.
Director Oliver Stone's sequel to his 1987 hit “Wall Street” sees Michael Douglas (...)
year high versus the euro and fell 1 percent versus the yen.
Light sweet crude oil for July delivery fell $3.10 to $71.51 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Gold rose $7.70 to $1,217.70 an ounce.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell (...)
A key issue for organizers in the lead-up has been balancing the budget in a time of global economic turmoil and after the fisaco of Montreal in 1976 when the debt took 30 years to pay off. The overall Winter Games costs top two billion Canadian (...)
تراجع النفط للجلسة الثامنة على التوالي أمس الجمعة ليغلق دون 70 دولارا للبرميل تحت وطأة تحسن الدولار الذي طغى على بيانات اقتصادية ايجابية من الولايات المتحدة والصين.
وهبط الخام الأمريكي تسليم يناير كانون الثاني 67 سنتا ليتحدد سعر التسوية عند 69.87 (...)
traded oil and gold prices to fall. Light sweet crude oil for January delivery fell $1.67 to $73.80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold for February delivery fell $28.10 to $1,141 an ounce after hitting record highs last (...)
The inspiration for the more recent game of Nintendogs, in which players enjoy the fun of a puppy without the reality of cleaning and feeding it, also came from his private life, after he and his wife and two children bought a Shetland sheepdog. So (...)
one of the the highest for any bank since the
financial crisis began more than a year ago.
Aerospace giant Boeing reported third-quarter earnings had dropped
38 per cent as the company was hit by the costs of a protracted
machinists' (...)
traded commodities like oil more expensive for international buyers.
Despite the decline in oil futures, U.S. retail gasoline prices rose to another record high near $3.94 a gallon (3.8 liters). Gold futures rose in response to the stronger dollar, (...)
The fall in the value of the dollar against other major currencies has helped drive buying across commodities as investors view dollar assets as relatively cheap. It has also reduced the purchasing power of OPEC's revenues and increased the (...)
Democrats in Pennsylvania were choosing between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a bitterly fought primary Tuesday that Clinton must not only win, but win convincingly to rescue her trailing White House bid.
The New York senator is tipped for (...)
The telecom unit of Kuwaiti investment firm Noor Financial Co is looking to raise 53.9 million dinars ($203.3 million) in an initial public offering (IPO) to finance acquisitions, a company executive said.
The firm, which is teaming up with France (...)
breaking run on foreign exchange markets is fuelling calls for a political counterweight to the European Central Bank, increasingly seen as indifferent to the currency's strength.
While they rarely see things eye-to-eye, business leaders and unions (...)
e-Nabvi (Prophet's Mosque) and added new facilities around the holy places. A large number of pilgrims are being accommodated every year to perform Hajj.
According to the latest statistics, the number of pilgrims visiting the Holy Land annually has (...)
2 motorway.
He said so far Rs 4 billion has been paid back, while the nation was yet to pay back Rs 37 billion.
The President mentioned the construction of the 750 km long Coastal Highway at a cost of Rs 16 billion by the present government in an (...)
STANDING DOLLAR PEG AND MOVED TO A SYSTEM IN WHICH THE CURRENCY FLOATS WITHIN MANAGED BANDS.
BUT SINCE THEN THE YUAN HAS APPRECIATED ONLY 1.16 PERCENT -- A PACE THAT HAS FRUSTRATED U.S. BUSINESSES, LAWMAKERS AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, WHO ARGUE (...)
YEAR-LONG CAMPAIGN TO RAISE INTEREST RATES.
"WHILE THE DATA IS CLEARLY DOLLAR POSITIVE, I WOULD EXPECT THAT THE MARKET WILL QUICKLY SHIFT BACK TO THE ATTENTION IT IS GIVING TO FED POLICY," SAID ALAN RUSKIN, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIST WITH RBS (...)
fed agriculture for its annual food crop.
This after the country recorded a bumper harvest the previous crop season and allowed farmers and millers to export maize -the staple crop to neighbouring Malawi, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, (...)
landing, then we would be in a far less favourable environment for sure."
For now, certain European markets slipped further from recent highs, with London's FTSE 100 index and Paris's CAC 40 off 0.3 percent and 0.2 percent respectively, but (...)
set rate of 8.11 yuan to the
dollar. The yuan will be allowed to trade within a narrow
0.3 percent band each day.
U.S. President George W. Bush had blamed China's growth _
and its increasing appetite for oil _ for recent price
rises.
But in (...)
month high of 109.72 yen.
Both the Australian and Canadian dollars climbed to one-month highs against the U.S. currency, boosted by demand for commodity-heavy currencies. The Aussie hovered near 76.80 U.S. cents, while the Canadian currency was at (...)
nation E.U.
"We need joint investments downstream," Krecke added.
The E.U. has repeatedly warned that high oil prices are casting a pall over the bloc's flagging economies, dimming hopes for stronger growth in 2005.
A joint statement issued after (...)