More countries are seeing a rise in distressed sales of commercial properties in the second quarter, with South Africa, the United States and New Zealand faring worst as the market downturn worsens, a report showed.
U.S. navigation device maker Garmin Ltd is in early talks to buy Britain's Raymarine Plc in a bid to gain market share in Europe.
Toyota Motor Corp said on Monday it has no plans to build a hybrid car at its Valenciennes factory in northern France, denying a report in La Tribune.
Older adults in developing countries who regularly eat fish seem to have a lower risk of dementia, a new study suggests.
The Australian unit of Swiss bank UBS AG thriving, even as its parent struggles in the global financial crisis, and has earned a reputation for snatching deals from rivals and making a success of them.
The world may be slowly emerging out of recession, but the global financial crisis appears to have gone unnoticed to a whole swathe of people: teenagers.
Simon Nicol, the last original member of folk rock band Fairport Convention, admits he's not into numbers, which may be why no one is quite sure what milestone just passed in this rural English village.
Capital One Financial Corp's U.S. credit card defaults and delinquencies rose in July, as Americans kept losing jobs and struggled to pay their debts.
Egypt has signed agreements for oil and natural gas exploration that are expected to bring in new investments of $2.3 billion, an official at the Oil Ministry said on Monday.
Britain's Hardy Oil and Gas Plc (HAOG.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) posted an operating loss for the first half on lower crude oil prices and higher costs, and cut its 2009 production forecast as its only producing field was shut for repairs.
Hennes & Mauritz , the world's third-biggest clothing retailer, reported on Monday a bigger-than-expected 3 percent drop in year-on-year sales at established stores in July.
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The Australian Dollar opens the new week lower at 0.8283. The Aussie hit an eleven-month high of 0.8475 last Friday after the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Mr Glenn Stevens said a normal cash rate is noticeably higher than the current level of 3 per cent.
The British government is prepared to tighten the laws on bankers' pay and bonuses if companies continue to reward excessive risk-taking, finance minister Alistair Darling told the Sunday Times newspaper.
There is speculation that Radiohead will issue a new digital EP as early as Monday, after the leak of a track online assumed to be a new song by the band.
A U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge on Friday issued an initial determination in favor of Nokia Oyj in an action brought by InterDigital Inc against Nokia.
Britain's Chrysalis Group, publisher of Michael Jackson hit songs including
The U.S. Department of Energy's Information Administration said Thursday natural gas stockpiles increased by 63 billion cubic feet to 3,152 Bcf for the week ended August 7. he U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Thursday they will allocate $2.3 billion in tax credits for manufacturers of clean energy equipment.
The father of a French teaching assistant charged with spying in Iran said on Thursday he hoped his daughter would leave prison later in the day, after France agreed to provide bail for her conditional release.
The PGA Championship 2009 gets underway today and ends on August 16 at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota and the championship will be available online via a live stream, as well as on TV.
The seasonally adjusted jobless claimants volume increased by 24,000 persons in the UK in July, somewhat above the 20,000 rise foretasted by market analysts, although the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.4%.
Germany and France achieved a shock return to economic growth in the second quarter of the year, ending their recessions earlier than many policymakers and economists expected, but failed to drag the euro zone with them.
