Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark producers have settled a dispute with the Broadway show's former director Julie Taymor
Ekaterina Rybolovleva, 22, now owns the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York City, after her billion father, Russian fertiliser magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev on Wednesday, closed the $88 million-deal for the Central Park West pad. He is said to be the 93rd richest man.
Generation Investment Management, the investment firm run by Al Gore and David Blood, released a white paper encouraging financial companies to adopt sustainable capitalism guidelines.
Former U.S. vice president Al Gore wants to end quarterly reporting by companies and explore issuing loyalty-driven securities as part of an overhaul of capitalism that he says has turned many of the world's largest economies into hotbeds for irresponsible short-term investment.
Worldwide sales of gold last year soared 29 percent to a record high as two groups of investors, each with mutually exclusive views of economic and financial threats, flocked to the yellow metal and related assets.
The United States, in a review of future satellite needs, is examining opportunities to increase international collaboration and orders from commercial providers, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Wednesday.
Four months after one of Japan's biggest corporate scandals, police and prosecutors on Thursday arrested seven men, including the former president of Olympus Corp and ex-bankers, over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the medical equipment and camera maker.
Wild price swings caused by a volatile rupee sapped Indian buying interest in gold in the fourth quarter of 2011, with imports well short of expectations and no pick up expected this year, dropping it behind China for the first time.
Xi Jinping's visit to the United States is all the rage as Washington scurries to get a better impression of the presumed successor of President Hu Jintao. However, it would be premature to judge Xi's comfortable and amicable style as a sign of any weakness.
Gold prices fell on Thursday as the euro slid to a three-week low versus the dollar, pressured by news that European officials considered delaying a bailout package for Greece which fuelled fears the heavily indebted nation could face a chaotic default.
Societe Generale SA said fourth-quarter profit fell 89 percent as the investment bank was badly affected by Greek debt write down and toxic assets.
Gold demand struck 14-year highs in 2011, driven by record investment, buying in China, which could overtake India this year as the world's top consumer, and central bank purchases, which hit their highest in at least 40 years, according to a report on Thursday.
China's ministry of commerce has approved a project that allows the British oil giant to have a presence in block 43/11, a gas field in the South China Sea, the China Daily reported quoting Chen Liming, head of BP China.
Moody's Investors Service placed the ratings of Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on review for possible downgrade because it says the business' profitability will be diminished longer term.
Sens. Dick Durbin and Tom Coburn sent a letter to Twitter's CEO on Wednesday asking the company about the details of a new privacy policy that allows governments to censor certain tweets.
Chinese firm Shanghai Pengxin, which is run by wealthy property developer Jiang Zhaobai, had hoped to spend more than $164 million buying and improving the New Zealand dairy farms.
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Hedge fund manager and long-time gold bull John Paulson cut his gold ETF bullion holdings by about $600 million in the fourth quarter, a second straight reduction that was likely driven by client redemption needs as he remained upbeat on the metal.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, saw that its gross domestic product fall 0.2 percent from the third quarter even as France grew 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter.
President Barack Obama, in his new $3.8 trillion budget proposal for 2013, called for taxes on the wealthiest Americans, a reduction in the national deficit and adequate funding for education.
Talks between Yahoo Inc and China's Alibaba Group over the U.S. Internet giant's Asian assets have hit an impasse, throwing their plans for a $17 billion tax-free asset swap into question, according to sources briefed on the situation.
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