European shares indexes fell in early trade on Thursday, trimming some of the previous session's strong gains after disappointing economic data and as energy stocks dropped along with oil prices. But the losses were limited by a rally in banking stocks after Credit Suisse beat expectations with its second-quarter earnings report, sending its shares up

The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even while apologizing for past excesses. Mark Zuckerberg, 24, told an audience of 1,000 industry executives, software makers, media

Britain's six biggest Internet providers have agreed a plan to tackle piracy within the music and film industries, pledging to send warning letters to users suspected of illegal file-sharing. But the plan in its current form falls short of requests by music trade bodies which had called for Internet service providers to disconnect those who

British retail sales slumped in June at the sharpest monthly rate since the series began in 1986, more than wiping out May's record rise and bringing three-month growth to its slowest since late last year. The Office for National Statistics said on Thursday retail sales volumes fell a much larger than expected 3.9% in June,

European shares extended losses in morning deals on Thursday as worse-than-expected economic data and weak oil stocks weighed on the index. By 0813 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares fell 0.8 percent to 1,179.99 points. Germany's Ifo corporate sentiment index came in well below forecasts in July and Euro zone services and

The euro is approaching key support at 1.5590-1.5615 with minor support a bit higher at 1.5640. It is not clear which of the two will limit the dollar gains. The ifo came weak as expected, so that is now out of the way, while oil has already declined sharply, so we don’t expect more pressure