COMMENT By Patrick Skinner “Be-suited captains and black–vested waiters confer and preen and carry on behind a stone counter, while diners occupy, on the other side, a narrow lane of tables. The
By Jeremy Gaunt Fund managers are gloomier about equities than at any time in at least the last 10 years and aversion to risk is close to what it was during the
By Mark Weinraub The price was higher than Bill Boyd wanted to pay and still rising, but it didn't really matter. He needed a combine harvester. He lost most of his farm
By Bernd Debusmann By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) – If necessity really is the mother of invention, oil at $140 a barrel and gasoline at $4 a gallon will force
Slovakia will be eurozone’s poorest By Peter Laca and Jan Lopatka SACA, Slovakia, July 16 (Reuters) – "What can I buy with 300?" cries Marca Tancosova, a Roma woman worried that her
Revival of Brazil By Ana Nicolaci da Costa BRASILIA, July 16 (Reuters) – Housekeeper Leonides de Moraes is part of the emerging middle class fueling Brazil's economic revival — but try telling
Rejects MSFT bid SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – After six months of flip-flop deal talks that drew mostly anger and disappointment from Yahoo Inc shareholders, the Internet company may finally have done something
Recession fears grow By Sumeet Desai Financial markets are still betting the next move in UK interest rates will be up but the Bank of England could be readying itself to cut
Cyprus – A future Economic Slowdown The downturn in Cypriot share prices toward the start of the year was a direct result of the uncertainty caused by the financial sub-prime crisis that
Financial services contracting… By James Saft LONDON (Reuters) – Britain, one of the big winners from the free flow of capital and services globally in the last decade, is rapidly becoming one
