Asian stocks climbed on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. growth forecasts for 2010 but Japanese shares fell to a four-month low on worries about capital raisings and government economic policy.
Royal Caribbean's new Oasis of the Seas is the largest, widest, tallest, most expensive cruise ship afloat, a cornucopia of amusements aimed at quashing the notion that cruising is a sedentary vacation,
World stocks rose while gold hit another record high and the dollar weakened on Wednesday after Federal Reserve minutes expressed confidence in the durability of the U.S. economic recovery. Federal Reserve officials
The Center for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET), a non-profit research and development organisation, announced findings from its large scale survey of the use of information and
The Bank of England disclosed on Tuesday that it provided almost 62 billion pounds in emergency loans to Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS at the height of the credit crisis last
The outlook for the chemical industry globally continues to be negative, Moody's Investors Service said in a six-month update on the industry. The negative outlook largely reflects Moody's expectations for limited volume
Most major European airports should perform as expected in 2009, and 2010 should see modestly higher growth than was anticipated in June 2009, Moody's Investors Service said in a new special comment.
Trying where Barack Obama failed a week ago, a trio of top European Union policymakers troops to China this weekend to press the case for a stronger yuan. Their chances of success
The negative outlook on the Portuguese banking system is based on the expected continuation of the adverse impact of the weak macroeconomic environment on the country's banks, Moody's Investors Service said in
The Ministry of Health launched Monday the first phase of the free vaccination programme against the H1N1 flu, but only a small number of Cypriots visited the vaccination centers. “The number of
