British public sector borrowing rose more than expected last month to a series high for the month of June, official figures showed on Friday, in a sign that a slowing economy is
Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is considering raising capital by selling as much as $10 bln in new shares to investors, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The
Enthusiastic new iPhone owners are starting to sound like the cast of long-running stage musical: "I Love you, You're Perfect, Now Change." Only days after snapping up the latest iPhone, they still
Yahoo Inc is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft Corp because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp's Web properties,
U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 53% in June from a year ago, with Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic increase in the number
It turns out everyone just wants to be a rock star. Music genre games "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" are bona-fide smash hits, entering the rarefied air once reserved for only the
A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 mln miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world. The two brief sequences
By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) – The rollercoaster that is world stock markets hit the dips again on Friday, falling on bank worries after Merrill Lynch posted
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) – European shares slipped in early trade on Friday, as banks fell after disappointing results from Merrill Lynch overnight and heavyweight oils lost ground as crude traded well
Euro turn sends mixed signals The 100 basis point recovery of the euro against the dollar from the Thursday NY low of 1.5783 to 1.5888 on Friday morning has distorted the short
