Investors gave up a brief flirtation with higher stocks and a higher dollar on Friday as world equities fell and the dollar climbed. Wall Street looked set to open lower. In recent
European shares rebounded on Friday from the previous session's sharp falls and snapped a three-day losing run, lifted by banks and oil producers but Fiat fell on a UBS downgrade. By 0901
Britain's top share index rose 0.6 percent in early trade on Friday as commodity and banking stocks led a broad-based rally By 0900 GMT, the FTSE 100 was up 30.65 points at
New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system
Sony Corp said on Friday that its planned entertainment content distribution service for network-compatible TVs and other devices will be launched next year. Sony plans to launch a new online service to
The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year. The smartphone market slowed drastically in the September
Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.5 percent on Friday and logged its first four-week losing streak in over a year, with Sony sliding after its new growth strategy failed to reassure investors.
European Union leaders awarded two of its top jobs to politicians relatively unknown on the international stage, after almost a decade of wrangling over how to project Europe’s global presence. At a
The White House on Thursday voiced its backing for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner after he endured a grilling before Congress over the costly bailout of insurer AIG, and one lawmaker urged
Financial markets saw a rare breakdown in correlations on Friday with world stocks eking out modest gains after the previous sessions losses but the dollar strengthening. In recent months, the U.S. currency
