Middle Eastern buyers were ready to place some of the largest orders at Farnborough as the global aviation industry's biggest airshow opened in the sleepy southern England town on Monday.
The global aviation industry descended en masse on this sleepy southern England town on Monday for its largest airshow, with Middle Eastern buyers poised to make another massive splash.
With open interest in cardamom futures surging, rumors of a ban on the contract also started circulating until Forward Markets Commission clarified that there would be no ban on cardamom futures.
The Aussie dollar held onto support around 0.8750 in early offshore trade rallying back above the 88 cent handle on the back of gains in EUR/USD.
Good Guys chain head Andrew Muir has announced the creation of a new foundation that will deploy stationary and mobile kitchens around the country to teach healthy cooking to Australians.
Boeing Co's new 787 Dreamliner touched down in Britain on Sunday on its first trip outside the United States, thrilling hordes of eager planespotters who came out to see the breakthrough carbon-composite plane.
Under-fire oil company BP Plc has started canvassing shareholders about a restructuring in the wake of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill which could include a break up of the business, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
Royal Bank of Scotland may pursue Goldman Sachs for hundreds of millions of dollars to add to $100 million it got as part of a settlement over the marketing of a subprime mortgage product.
Citigroup Inc and AIG classified more than $11 billion in loans as sales in the second half of 2009, masking the companies' risk levels, filings with the U.S. Securities regulator showed.
Citigroup Inc said in a letter to the U.S. securities regulator it had unintentionally classified as much as $9.2 billion of repurchase agreements as sales at one point, when they should have been shown as borrowings.
The dollar hovered near a 2- month low and the Nikkei slumped amid weak Asian stock markets as the outlook for the U.S. economic recovery worsened.
Hot on the heels of the FOMC downgrade of U.S GDP softer than expected Chinese data triggered a selloff of higher yielding Currencies in Asia as concerns over the potential slowdown in global growth resurfaced.
U.S.-listed shares of BP Plc jumped 7.6 percent on Thursday after a company executive said no oil was leaking from its blown-out well into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since late April.
Investors have muted expectations for Google Inc's second-quarter results, as economic clouds and shifts in the company's strategy dampened hopes that it will beat Wall Street estimates.
(Corrects analyst's affiliation in last paragraph to ThinkEquity instead of Kaufman Brothers)
Top scorers Germany and winners Spain elicited the most positive reaction from online fans of this year's soccer World Cup, whilst France's player crisis made them the most maligned team of the tournament.
JPMorgan Chase & Co posted higher second-quarter earnings on Thursday, beating analysts' expectations, after setting aside less money for loan losses.
Markets are relatively patient about the budget-cutting efforts of Britain, the United States, Germany and Japan, but that could change if governments are slow to act, OECD chief Angel Gurria said on Thursday.
Asian stocks fell on Thursday as investors took profits from a recent rally after the Federal Reserve's caution on the U.S. economic recovery, even as Chinese data pointed to only a mild cooling in that economy.
Investors have muted expectations for Google Inc's second-quarter results, as economic clouds and shifts in the company's strategy dampened hopes that it will beat Wall Street estimates.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia should be allowed to stay on the market but with additional warnings, U.S. health advisers recommended on Wednesday, easing a threat of further costly litigation that could have followed a ban.
Consumer sentiment in Australia markedly improved rising to 11.1% the most in 13 months, following 3 months of decline.