World stocks and commodity prices rose on Thursday after China's central bank reaffirmed its commitment to "appropriately loose" monetary policy and European company earnings cheered investors. The dollar and government bonds fell.
British telecoms group BT posted a better-than-expected 3 percent fall in first-quarter adjusted core earnings and said it had made a good start to its cost cutting programme, sending its shares soaring.
Britain's top share index gained 0.5 percent in early deals on Thursday fueled by strength in miners and energy issues after results from Royal Dutch Shell, with investors digesting a slew of
World stocks and commodity prices rose on Thursday after China's central bank reaffirmed loose monetary policy and European corporate earnings cheered investors, while the dollar and government bond prices fell. The People's
A Mac security expert has uncovered a technique that hackers could use to take control of Apple Inc computers and steal data that is scrambled to protect it from identity thieves. Prominent
European shares rose on Thursday, boosted by telecom stocks after results from France Telecom and BT and offsetting a negative reaction to results from Siemens and BASF. By 0810 GMT the pan-European
Airlines carried 16.5 percent less cargo and 7.2 percent fewer people in June than in the same month a year ago, with no sign yet of the global recession lifting, an industry
Four out of five Europeans say that they consider the environmental impact of the products they buy reveals a Eurobarometer survey published today. Environmental consideration was highest in Greece where more than
Asian share markets were largely steady on Thursday, struggling to regain multi-month highs, while Shanghai shares see-sawed after a 5 percent sell-off the previous day that sent other markets reeling. Crude futures
Yahoo Inc investors are disappointed it could not milk more money from Microsoft Corp, but said they were relieved a deal was struck that would allow Yahoo to focus on its other,
