China's top oil refiners are set to reveal a surge in quarterly earnings on the back of fuel price increases and lower oil prices, reaping the benefits six months after Beijing shifted to more liberal fuel pricing.
Prices of U.S. office, retail and apartment buildings fell 1 percent in June, easing from steep slides in the previous two months, according to the Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index released on Wednesday.
BHP Billiton won't accept the iron ore prices reached between Chinese steel mills and Fortescue, Local media reported on Tuesday, citing senior officials of BHP China.
Sony confirmed on Tuesday that it will be dropping the price on its PlayStation 3 console.
Sony Corp will launch a cheaper version of its PlayStation 3 game console and plans to cut prices on existing models effective August 19 in Europe and the United States to bolster sales and take aim at rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.
A rich asking price could once again sink AIG's plan to sell its Taiwan insurance unit after an attempt at a sale earlier this year met a similar fate.
Activist investor Carl Icahn is under fire from a hedge fund that accuses the billionaire investor of enriching himself at the expense of minority shareholders in XO Holdings Inc , a company he controls.
India will examine a uniform domestic price for natural gas, which is now sold at rates ranging from $1 to $5.73 per million British thermal units (mBtu) depending on source, Oil Minister Murli Deora said on Thursday.
Long after President Barack Obama's first term ends in 2013, millions of U.S. families will still be paying the price for the recession.
Leaked rumor reports from the Chinese Apple Daily suggest Apple is set to launch the Apple media tablet - aka the Apple Media Pad - in September, with analysts and traders agreeing.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is planning to issue a report next month that suggests that wild swings in oil prices were significantly driven by speculators, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Tuesday.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is planning to issue a report next month that suggests that wild swings in oil prices were significantly driven by speculators, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Tuesday.
EBay Inc's shares soared as much as 11 percent on Thursday, a day after the online auctioneer posted quarterly results that topped market expectations, leading at least nine analysts to raise their price targets.
An unusually robust rise in home prices from April to May could foreshadow a recovery in many U.S. housing markets, according to a report released on Thursday by Radar Logic, a real estate data and analytics company.
China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) said on Monday it had fixed a price range for its Shanghai initial public offering (IPO), looking to raise as much as 50.16 billion yuan ($7.34 billion).
U.S. commercial property prices plunged for a second straight month in May as distressed transactions weighed, but the pace of decline may signal a bottoming process, Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.
Hong Kong saw the volume of total goods exports fall 12.6% and that of imports drop 16.2% year on year in May, the Census & Statistics Department said on Thursday, adding that the volume of goods re-exports fell 11.8% while that of domestic exports dived 35.5%.
The detention of Rio Tinto executives on spying accusations has allegedly wreaked havoc on the world's second-largest iron ore miner's sales in China, as the nation's steel mills took a wait-and-see approach on ore imports from the Anglo- Australian conglomerate, Chinese State media reported on Wednesday.
Real estate research site Trulia.com says 24.6 percent of current homes on the market in the United States as of July 1, have had at least one price cut, totaling $27.1 billion in reductions.
A Chinese steel executive detained along with four Rio Tinto employees is being investigated for leaking China's bottom line on iron ore prices, a source with knowledge of the probe said on Friday.
The price of nearly one in four U.S. homes for sale on July 1 had been sliced at least once since landing on the market, data compiled by real estate website Trulia.com showed on Friday.
Online retailer Amazon.com has cut the price of its standard Kindle electronic reader by 17 percent to $299, the company said on Wednesday, the latest salvo in the war for digital readers.
