Tesco, Britain's top retailer, met forecasts with a 10 percent rise in first-half profit, signalling it can cope with weak markets even as it called for interest rate cuts and steps to
Britain's top share index was down 0.6 percent early on Tuesday, led by banks and energy stocks after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion banking bailout package, but miners boosted by gold
Shares of the world's hottest technology stocks joined hard-pressed financial stocks in a sharp sell-off on Monday as investor fears mounted that the crisis on Wall Street was dampening U.S. consumer demand.
A group founded by several major media and technology companies plans to promote the Web as a place for consumers to get songs, television shows and movies without resorting to piracy. Organizers
A group of 16 leading telecoms and IT companies is uniting to promote mobile broadband in a marketing initiative worth more than $1 billion over the next year under the auspices of
President of Socialist International and President of main Greek opposition PASOK party George Papandreou has met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, with whom he discussed the Cyprus issue. In statements after the
Recession fears grew and investors raced for safe havens after U.S. lawmakers' shock rejection of a $700 billion rescue plan for the financial industry, with Asian stocks skidding after Wall Street's biggest
Turnover in the Cypriot automotive sector was more or less flat in real terms in the first half of 2008. The index of turnover value for the sale and repair of motor
Markets getting hammered as bailout plan unexpectedly rejected Charis Charilaou Chief Dealer History usually repeats itself and after US lawmakers chose to reject the US Treasury’s $700 billion bail out plan, one
By Richard Cowan (Reuters) Republicans' hopes for only modest losses in November's congressional election appeared to be fading as fears of an economic collapse and panic on Wall Street fuel U.S. voters'
