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Warren Buffett may be the world's most famous investor, but even he doesn't get everything right.

Nissan Motor Co said on Thursday it is on track to book 25,000 U.S. orders for its Leaf electric vehicle by the end of the year and the automaker will be making money on the green car.

Barclays Plc's investment bank results failed to match the lofty growth shown by many rivals, knocking its shares and taking the shine off a 47 pct rise in group quarterly pretax profit.

Stocks rose on Friday and the euro steadied on hopes that a fractious European Union will agree on a bailout package for Greece within days as it struggles to keep the debt crisis from spreading to other weak countries. Shares were also buoyed by strong earnings reports from major U.S. companies, which pushed up Wall Street stocks and bolstered hopes that the world's largest economy was picking u...

Scientists in Germany and England claim they have invented a nasal spray that makes men more caring, sensitive and affectionate.

Australian Dollar: The Aussie spent the last 24 hours trading above US92 cents and is supported by our yield advantage after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged this week and maintained their oft-repeated mantra to leave interest rates at exceptionally low levels for an extended period of time.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Almost twice as many Swedes as Britons survive the first five years after a lung cancer diagnosis, a new report reveals.

Britain's Prudential Plc has secured South Korean anti-trust approval for its planned $35.5 billion takeover of American International Group Inc's Asian life insurance business, a Korean Fair Trade Commission official said. told Reuters on Thursday.

British insurer Standard Life beat forecasts with a 30 percent rise in first-quarter sales, helped by growth in corporate pensions and in its core retail products, as UK consumers shrugged off economic woes.

Australian Dollar: The Australian Dollar opens at 0.9250 this morning higher against the Greenback after another night of volatile trade.

SAP AG will start selling a long-delayed suite of Web-based software for running small to mid-sized businesses in July, a top company executive said on Wednesday.

Leading Kenyan mobile phone operator Safaricom plans to move to an Internet protocol network in the next two years to help lower costs and reduce outages, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

Web company Yahoo said services that allow consumers to find local information based on the location of their mobile phone were very interesting but would not comment on reports it may buy industry player Foursquare.

The Australian Dollar opens lower against the greenback on Wednesday at 0.9150.

Deutsche Bank delivered record investment bank earnings and European peers Lloyds and Swedbank swung to surprise profits on Tuesday as an economic recovery picked up to aid the embattled industry.

A cure for the childhood peanut allergy may be available in the next three years. In a pilot study, 21 of 23 children between the ages of seven to seventeen were successfully treated for peanut allergies, which allowed them to consume foods containing the nut without suffering a reaction.

Good morning dear traders, yesterday was not my favourite trading day. In the beginning there have been some nice trading chances in EURUSD, however later we landed in a sideways range, whereas losses have been forecasted.

Lloyds Banking Group returned to profit in the first three months of this year, earlier than expected, as losses on both retail and commercial bad debts for Britain's largest bank continue to fall.

Goldman Sach's bond trader Fabrice Tourre has plenty to worry about, being accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But his amorous emails made public in the case may have him losing even more sleep at night.

The Australian Dollar moved marginally higher yesterday and gradually worked its way towards 0.9280.

Around the world there's no shortage of political leaders behaving badly.