Asking prices for homes in England and Wales in July are an average of 3.1 percent lower than a year ago, with growing signs the past year's price falls have bottomed out,
The world's population of older people is growing at the fastest rate ever seen and the old will soon outnumber the young for the first time, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. An
U.S. lender CIT Group Inc has reached a tentative deal with bondholders for $3 billion in rescue financing, sources said, as it tries to avoid becoming the latest casualty of the global
Southeast Asian foreign ministers sought ways on Monday to boost their economies, fight terrorism and counter criticism that a new human rights commission will be a toothless body. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit
Asian stocks rose on Monday to their highest level since the dark days following Lehman Brothers' collapse last September while the U.S. dollar fell, as a solid outlook for corporate earnings lured
The prices of most industrial raw materials, including oil, have rallied strongly since the beginning of 2009, and particularly in the second quarter of the year. However, the Economist Intelligence Unit believes
Europe’s initial public offering (IPO) markets have endured another poor quarter with just 28 new listings in the three months up to June 30, although the EUR 456 mln raised was a
The Middle East is expected to require AED 44 bln (USD 11.96 bln) in new power projects per year until 2020, according to recently published reports, in order to address the average
International Air Charter (IAC), one of the world's largest independent private jet charter brokers, is consolidating its charter jet network in the Middle East as it predicts the regional market to expand
New U.S. housing starts and permits jumped in June, propelled by a rise in ground-breaking for single-family homes and suggesting the battered housing sector was beginning to stabilize, a government report showed
