Britain's top share index drifted lower in early trade on Wednesday, as losses in energy stocks, weighed by the softening price of oil, offset gains in miners. At 0940 GMT, the FTSE
British industrial output rose slightly faster than expected in November, helped by a jump in oil and gas extraction, but manufacturing unexpectedly stagnated for a second month, official data showed on Wednesday.
Stock index futures were slightly higher on Wednesday, but gains were capped as concerns about the Chinese economy pressured commodity prices. Chinese shares fell 3 percent, led lower by banks and property
The chief executives of Wall Street's biggest firms, swimming in bonuses but sinking fast in public esteem, will troop to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to face questioning about the global financial crisis.
The Cyprus Newspaper and Magazine Publishers Association, ENPA – the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association – and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) have condemned the assassination of Andy Hadjicostis,
Governments' exit strategies from counter-cyclical policies are crucial In the first regular issue of its "European Sovereign Outlook" — entitled "Diverging Conditions Heighten Significance of Exit Strategies" — Moody's Investors Service said
The Cyprus-owned E-Clear card payment processor under investigation in the UK over its alleged role leading to the collapse of the Scottish low-fare airline Globespan and Allbury Travel, has been ordered by
Cypriot tennis player Marcos Baghdatis scored a tidy win over world no. 39 Viktor Troicki at the Sydney Tennis Medibank International with 7-5, 6-3. The Cypriot tennis star will now face Australia’s
Facebook, the world's No. 1 social networking site, which has been a target of several high-profile cyber attacks in the past year, is giving away security software from McAfee Inc to protect
Google Inc threatened to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market, warning it would no longer tolerate strict censorship of its Google.cn search engine. The threat by the world's leading Internet search
