HONG KONG (AP) - Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as Japan 's key index rose for a seventh day but Indian shares tumbled after the chairman of major outsourcing company Satyam Computer admitted to falsely inflating profits for years. European ...
7 Jan 2009
HONG KONG, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Top U.S. lender Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), raising cash to weather a dismal market at home, sold a $2.83 billion chunk of its holding in China Construction Bank on Wednesday, dragging the Chinese bank's ...
7 Jan 2009
BEIJING (AP) - Bank of America Corp. raised more money Wednesday to cope with U.S. economic turmoil by selling part of its stake in China Construction Bank Ltd., China's second-biggest commercial lender, for $2.8 billion. Bank of America sold 5.62 ...
7 Jan 2009
Bernadette Davis hit two free throws in the closing seconds of overtime and then made a key defensive stop to help visiting Rush-Henrietta past Monroe County rival Gates Chili, 52-50 on Tuesday. Davis stole the ball with 10 seconds remaining in ...
7 Jan 2009
Keywords: Russia , Ukraine , gas , row , supply , Gazprom , energy , Austria , Bulgaria , Croatia , the Czech Republic , Greece , Hungary , Poland , Romania , Slovakia and Turkey Russia's gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine appear to have been halted ...
7 Jan 2009
LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Germany's Merck KGaA ( MRCG.DE ) could unlock substantial value by selling its consumer health business to a larger company, with France's Sanofi-Aventis ( SASY.PA ) an obvious buyer, according to a leading analyst. UBS ...
7 Jan 2009
More than 8,000 ethnic Nepalese who had sought refuge in their ancestral country after being forced from Bhutan have resettled in the United States and other Western nations, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday.
7 Jan 2009
JAKARTA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Indonesia's central bank said in a statement on Wednesday that it plans to auction its one-, three-, and six-month debt paper (SBI) on Jan. 8.
7 Jan 2009
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 (Bernama) -- The international reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia amounted to RM316.8 billion (US$91.4 billion) as at Dec 31, 2008.
7 Jan 2009
Reports of overwhelming African American support for Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage were exaggerated in exit polls, a new look at the November election results has found. "Party identification, age, religiosity and political view had much bigger...
7 Jan 2009
(RTTNews) - Wednesday, the Central Statistical Office announced that the jobless rate stood at 7.8% in the September to November period, same as in the previous three-month period. A year ago, the jobless rate was 7.5%.
7 Jan 2009
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. sold $2.8 billion of China Construction Bank Corp. shares, less than a month after scrapping an earlier attempt to raise money from its three-year-old stake.
6 Jan 2009
A blog about Open Source Java EE (J2EE), GlassFish, XML, Web Services, AJAX, SOA.
6 Jan 2009
News24: South Africa: News: Over 8 000 arrested in N West: More than 8 500 people have been arrested during Operation Festive Season in the North West, according to police.
6 Jan 2009
Self-promotion can be particularly hard for IT professionals because on top of cultural conditioning, they feel their work speaks for them. But you may need it to survive this economic downturn with your job intact.
6 Jan 2009
A new study of voting patterns on Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that would outlaw same-sex marriage, concludes that African American support, reported by exit pollsters at 70 percent, was at least 10 percentage points lower ...
6 Jan 2009
I've been trying to impress upon the FanHouse readers for a little while that the Big Ten is back to being a strong conference this.
6 Jan 2009
One of the things announced at today's Macworld event that is sure to cause a lot of discussion is the ...
6 Jan 2009