The Got Talent franchise is a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company.
The U.S. got its most wanted criminal when U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden but the troops left behind a key piece of secret technology they tried to destroy in the frantic, tense minutes when they raided the al-Qaeda leader's northern Pakistan compound: a Stealth Helicopter.
Governments, or nowadays central banks, are traditionally the largest holders of gold. And for most of the past two decades, central banks have been net sellers of gold. But since 2010, central banks are net buyers again, because central banks of emerging market economies are aiming to diversify their ever growing currency reserves and reach a similar level in gold reserves as the club of old industrial economies.
Giant Chinese man can’t find fitting shoes, dreams of normal life.
Stocks rose for a third day on Tuesday, led by utilities and other defensive sectors that may drive further gains as investors bet on profit growth and set aside concerns about weakening demand.
A Pakistani official said on Tuesday the government may let very interested Chinese officials see the remains of a secret U.S. stealth helicopter which was abandoned and mostly destroyed during a U.S. Special Forces raid of Osama bin Laden's compound last week.
The US government can’t possibly pay back its $14-trillion debt. Not fairly, at least. Instead, its strategy is to devalue the US dollar so that the nominal value of the $14-trillion debt becomes less in real terms.
When the United States' elite Navy SEAL Team Six unit killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, the world wondered how he hid, seemingly out in the open, for so long.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced China’s human rights abuses and its response to dissent in an interview published on Tuesday in The Atlantic magazine.
Stocks rose for a third day on Tuesday, led by utilities and other defensive sectors that may drive further gains as investors bet on profit growth and set aside concerns about weakening demand.
President Barack Obama‘s speech on immigration in El Paso, Texas on May 10, 2011.
China has agreed to steps to open its government procurement market to more U.S. companies and let U.S. banks sell mutual funds in the country, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday.
China on Tuesday pledged to make it easier for U.S. companies to win Chinese government contracts, addressing a long-standing complaint of foreign corporations seeking a piece of the fast-growing market.
Wall Street extended its rally for a third day on Tuesday as investors turned more conservative after last week's decline and embraced defensive shares.
Oil rose on Tuesday, supported by concerns U.S. flooding could hit Gulf Coast refinery operations and data showing strong Chinese crude imports for April.
Wall Street edged higher on Tuesday as China's trade surplus eased fears about a slowdown in global economic growth and Microsoft said it would pay $8.5 billion in cash for Internet phone service Skype.
China stormed back to post a hefty trade surplus in April as exports hit a record while imports eased more than expected, weighed down by sustained monetary tightening and high commodity prices.
Spot Gold prices rose for the second day running in London on Tuesday, reclaiming half of last week's 7% drop from the all-time Dollar high as world stock markets rallied again with commodity prices.
U.S. and Chinese officials in Washington on Monday laid out differences on human rights in China, U.S. exports on high technology products, and China's exchange rate as they held ongoing talks to resolve strategic and economic issues.
U.S. stocks were set to rise at the open on Tuesday after strong Chinese trade data eased concerns of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy and pointed to strong global demand.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: CKX, China Valves Technology, Synthesis Energy Systems, China Information Technology, and Fossil. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Nanosphere, BioMimetic Therapeutics, SmartHeat, MannKind, and USA Technologies.
Oil prices pared losses of more than 2 percent on Tuesday as the dollar erased gains.
