Oil moved back above $83 a barrel on Friday, within sight of all-time highs, on mounting tensions between Turkey and northern Iraq.
They won the prize for their part in galvanizing international action against global warming before it 'moves beyond man's control'.
Citigroup Inc, which last week forecast 60 percent declines in third-quarter earnings amid bad debt losses, said it was promoting Vikram Pandit to head banking, markets, and alternative investments, and that trading head Thomas Maheras was leaving.
U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, led by a retreat in the technology heavy Nasdaq index after a report on Chinese search engine Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) predicted lower revenue for the firm, triggering a broader sell off in the Tech sector.
Wheat surged the most in 5 weeks as investors bet the USDA would cut its estimate on worldwide supplies of grain on high demand and poor harvest.
The U.S. trade gap shrank in August on record exports and claims for jobless benefits fell last week, according to government data on Thursday that showed the economy retaining some vigor despite housing market ills.
Gold rose to the highest price since 1980 as the ailing U.S dollar boosts the appeal of precious metals, while platinum set a record high in London aided by the rising bullion and concerns on over supply.
Oil approached record highs on Thursday, surpassing $83 a barrel an unexpected decline in U.S. inventories stoked concerns about supplies in the world's top consumer ahead of winter.
A sickly dollar and firming oil prices swept gold to 28-year highs on Thursday, while platinum was set in London at a record high of $1,407 per ounce, aided by rising bullion prices and worries over supply.
Oil rose sharply to $83 a barrel on Thursday, within striking distance of an all-time high, after a surprise drawdown in U.S. crude and distillate stocks.
The next Batman and Chronicles of Narnia films are also among the top 5 awaited movies of 2008.
Ford Motor Co, considered the weakest of the three U.S.-based automakers, could agree on a new contract with the United Auto Workers union fairly quickly and without the strikes that marked negotiations with General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, analysts said on Thursday.
Stocks declined on Thursday, led by losses in the Nasdaq as investors took profits after recent sharp gains.
Derrick Bulawa, who runs a small phone company in North Dakota, was getting worried as he began to lose some of his 6,000 subscribers to cable companies offering bundled TV, Internet and phone services.
The chief executive of BP Plc on Thursday outlined a plan to address industry-lagging profitability by slashing management layers, adopting consistent procedures for developing oil and gas fields and reducing unacceptably high costs.
Investors and fund managers bitten by the collapse in subprime mortgages are now looking for new opportunities to trade bonds linked to traditionally volatile commodity prices and risky emerging markets.
Whoever becomes Sprint Nextel Corp's next CEO, one thing is clear: Wall Street expects the U.S. mobile service provider to scale back its ambitious plans for a next-generation WiMax high-speed network.
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No 2 software services exporter, said quarterly profit rose by nearly a fifth but its shares tumbled 7 percent on market concerns over the rapidly rising rupee and the risk of a U.S. downturn.
Japan's Sanyo Electric Co Ltd said it has reached a basic agreement to sell its loss-making mobile phone business to Kyocera Corp, creating the world's seventh-largest cellphone provider.
Shares of Sony Financial Holdings Inc rose nearly 4 percent on their debut on Thursday, as a stock market rebound boosted demand for the financial firm that recently completed Japan's largest IPO this year.
U.S. farm officials pressed South Korea at talks in Seoul on Thursday to open its market fully to American beef and resolve a long-standing dispute between the two nations that has also threatened a separate free-trade deal.
Turkish PM to ask approval for Iraq iTurkey's prime minister will ask parliament next week to authorize a military push into north Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels amid Turkish anger on Thursday at a U.S. vote branding Ottoman Turk killings of Armenians genocide.
