The United States sold a record amount of debt to help fund its efforts to contain the financial crisis and Beijing's fifth rate cut since September failed to boost Chinese shares, as
Asian stocks fell for a third straight session on Tuesday as a continued retreat in oil prices below $40 a barrel hit resource-related shares, while auto makers slumped after Toyota's bleak assessment
Global shares weakened on Monday and the dollar fell broadly, weighed by signs of a deepening recession in Japan and the euro zone and concerns about the banking sector around the world.
Global shares weakened on Monday in tandem with the dollar, pressured by signs of a deepening recession in Japan and concerns about the banking sector around the world. Ireland's weekend announcement that
Ireland's three main banks on Monday welcomed the government's injection of 5.5 billion euros ($7.68 billion) into them with the state taking majority control of Anglo Irish Bank after a loan scandal.
Britain's FTSE 100 index fell early on Monday, with miners leading the losers as Rio Tinto announced production cuts, while banks rose with HSBC rebounding to snap a seven-session losing run. At
Nokia on Sunday removed one of the key obstacles for takeup of its new Internet offering, combining sign-ins for its overall services site Ovi.com and for its media sharing service. Nokia has
Work began on Sunday to fix submarine cables under the Mediterranean suspected of being cut by a ship's anchor, disrupting Internet and international telephone service in parts of the Middle East and
A Chinese woman who became an online sensation after posting a homemade pornographic film of herself on the Internet has been detained in Shanghai, according to state media. The 12-minute-video showed the
The Internet entrepreneur behind an online video game inviting users to throw footwear at President George W. Bush sold the property on eBay in just four days, he told Reuters on Friday.
