Hong Kong shares firmed on Friday morning in good volume lifting the benchmark index to a five-month high with investors riding a rally in risk assets across Asia. The Hang Seng Index
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson announced the retirement of its longtime head of consumer products on Thursday, hours after a U.S. congressional panel disclosed new potentially damaging information about J&J's
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. health insurers took in 7 percent more revenue from premiums from individual, group and other policies in 2009 than in the previous year, even as the number
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Boeing Co plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit, the aerospace company said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Candy maker Mars Inc., computer company IBM Corp. and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have mapped the cacao genome in an effort to improve cocoa crop quality and
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Thousands of visitors have fond memories of the medieval Czech capital Prague, with one exception: getting ripped off by a taxi driver. But a Czech firm, Et netera, said
Minister of Finance Charilaos Stavrakis said on Thursday that possible measures to cover the 150 million EUR deficit in the state budget for 2011 were the increase of company tax, the taxation
Tourist arrivals in August marked an increase of 4.3%, reaching 304.264 compared to 291.583 in August 2009, the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB) has said in a statement. The Federation added
Greece's jobless rate rose to a 10-year high of 11.8 percent in the three months to June from 11.7 percent in the first quarter as economic activity weakened, the country's statistics service
Sales of new passenger cars saw "considerable percentage drops" over the summer months, industry association ACEA said on Thursday, as the phasing out of scrapping incentive schemes continued to take its toll.
