Asian shares inched up on Tuesday with softer commodity prices weighing on Australian stocks, while the New Zealand dollar hit a 13-month high on signs of a recovery in prices for the country's key dairy exports.
Oil rose to $70 a barrel on Tuesday in a technical rebound after its 3.2 percent decline in the previous session, as traders watch for clues to the health of the global economy from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting and a summit of G20 nations this week.
The head of chocolate maker Cadbury PLC, which is facing a possible takeover by U.S. food giant Kraft Foods Inc, said there were some complementary elements in the two companies' portfolios, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The United States will urge world leaders this week to launch a new push in November to rebalance the world economy, but there are doubts national governments will bow to external advice.
Yahoo Inc hopes to get up to $500 million for a unit that hosts websites for small companies, after putting it on the market for several months, two people familiar with the matter said.
Yahoo Inc hopes to get up to $500 million for a unit that hosts websites for small companies, after putting it on the market for several months, two people familiar with the matter said.
Travelling is often about trying the unusual and attempting to experience the different culture of the country you are visiting. One of the best ways to do this is to try the foods the native people eat.
Oil prices settled 3.2 percent lower on Monday as further signs of weak fuel demand raised expectations that prices may have raced ahead of the nascent economic recovery.
Persuading Europe, the United States and China to accept International Monetary Fund advice on economic polices may be difficult, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said on Monday.
Oil prices fell by 3.7 percent toward $69 a barrel on Monday as further signs of weak fuel demand raised expectations that prices may have raced ahead of the nascent economic recovery.
Recession is set to cause the sharpest fall in world greenhouse gas emissions in 40 years, according to an estimate on Monday as world leaders gathered in New York to try to break deadlock on a new climate treaty.
Oil prices fell by almost 3.5 percent toward $69 a barrel on Monday as further signs of weak fuel demand raised expectations that prices may have raced ahead of the nascent economic recovery.
China's President Hu Jintao may lay down a carbon intensity target for his country at a top level United Nations summit on Tuesday, experts said, as he seeks to show Beijing's commitment to fighting climate change.
Metallurgical Corp of China, the firm that helped build Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympic stadium, made a modest debut in Shanghai on Monday, in a sign that a flood of new equity is weighing on market sentiment.
An investment arm of Goldman Sachs is in talks with Chinese car maker Geely Automotive, which has been linked with both Volvo and Opel, to buy about $250 million of the company's convertible bonds and warrants, two sources said.
Oil fell by more than 3 percent to below $70 a barrel on Monday as further signs of weak fuel demand raised expectations prices may have raced ahead of the nascent economic recovery.
European companies outnumbered North American companies on a list of how well global corporations were disclosing their emissions of greenhouse gasses and plans to guard themselves against financial risks associated with climate change, a survey showed on Monday.
Volkswagen's (VOWG.DE) premium unit Audi (NSUG.DE) expects to reach its unit sales target for China two years earlier than previously planned, Audi's head of sales told industry publication Automobilwoche.
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Oil fell by more than 2 percent to $70 a barrel on Monday as further signs of weak fuel demand raised expectations prices may have raced ahead of the nascent economic recovery.
A united Korea -- combining Asia's fourth biggest economy with one of its poorest -- could surpass that of Germany or Japan in economic might in the next 30-40 years, U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said on Monday.
Violence and unrest instigated by separatists agitating for an independent Xinjiang have hit economic development hard in the far western Chinese region, a government policy paper said on Monday.
