U.S. stocks erased their gains Friday and logged their worst month in nearly a year as investors shrugged off some encouraging economic data and techs took another hit.
Home prices in Hong Kong, which jumped 27% this last year, may be cooling off some steam as concern over a bubble in asset prices in China looms.
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Ben Bernanke will enjoy a second term as Fed Chairman.
The recent US Supreme Court decision regarding presidential campaigns may allow foreign corporations to influence the vote.
Ex-US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has declared “The British Screwed Us” in his new publication. He explains how the British did not allow a pre-bankruptcy takeover of Lehman Brothers by [...]
Russia tested its fifth-generation Sukhoi fighter jet in the Russian Far East on Friday.
China has failed, despite billions of dollars in aid, to win over Tibetan loyalty. And now Beijing is finally realizing just how badly it mishandled things.
Endorsing vaccines as the world’s most cost-effective public health measure, Bill and Melinda Gates said Friday that [...]
Apple Inc., seeking to revolutionize the publishing business in the same way the iPod transformed the music industry, unveiled a tablet computer starting at $499, a price that was 50 percent lower than some analysts predicted.
A stock analyst claims that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may retreat 20 percent from a 15-month high because [...]
Haitians are buying nails to make initial repairs, searching out “tri-tri” – a powder of tiny dried fish used to season rice – and even getting haircuts: all of which means that, slowly, the economy is showing signs of life after being knocked out by the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Teen pregnancy in the U.S. has started [...]
Teens who get drunk are more likely to suffer “irreversible brain damage” than adults who drink, according to a study by the University of California, San Diego.
In London, more than 150 people have approached consumer publication ‘Which? Computing’ claiming to have been wrongly targeted in crackdowns on illegal file-sharing.
A heated debate on Capitalism on a [...]
Ninety people are feared dead after an Ethiopian airliner bound for Addis Ababa crashed into the Mediterranean in heavy storms yesterday. The aircraft, which took off from Beirut in a thunderstorm at 2.30am and lost contact with the control tower soon afterwards, was seen crashing into the sea in a ball of fire about [...]
