The Kindle Fire tablet may be the hottest selling gadget this holiday, pressuring Amazon.com Inc's profit margins but giving the world's largest Internet retailer potentially millions of new high-spending customers. Since Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos unveiled the tablet at a lower-than-expected price of $199 on Sept. 28, some analysts have increased their sales estimates

The FTSE 100 fell by midsession on Thursday, as uncertainty over plans to rescue the euro zone shrouded the outlook for equities, with financials and commodity stocks bearing the brunt of the selling. A split between the IMF and the European Union is threatening to delay Greece's next aid payment in another blow to European

UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, who is accused of unauthorised trading which the Swiss bank says has cost it some $2.3 billion, was remanded in custody on Thursday to appear for a plea and case management hearing next month. Adoboli, 31, who worked as a director of exchange traded funds at UBS, is charged with two

Doubts about the euro zone's ability to come up with a comprehensive plan to solve its debt crisis hammered equity markets and hit the euro on Thursday, underlying investor impatience with political wrangling. World stocks as measured by MSCI fell 1 percent, European shares were down 1.3 percent and volatile emerging market equities lost nearly

Plans to tackle the euro zone debt crisis have stalled with Paris and Berlin at odds over how to increase the firepower of the region's bailout fund, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday. Sarkozy told French lawmakers the dispute was holding up negotiations and flew to Frankfurt to talk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Riskier assets across the board from stocks, metals and commodity currencies fell on Thursday as investors grew wary about taking risks ahead of a key European leaders' summit on Sunday. The euro dipped as European policymakers struggled to reach consensus on the sovereign debt crisis in the region, and concerns about the global economy hit

World wealth to grow 50% in 5 years -C.Suisse  Global wealth could rise 50 percent to $345 trillion over the next five years, spurred by a near doubling of total household wealth in China and strong growth in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa, a Credit Suisse report released on Wednesday said. The Global Wealth