With Citigroup stock value plunging, top executives at the financial giant are considering the sale of all or parts of the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website. The debate within the company is at a "preliminary stage," and ...
21 Nov 2008
UK retailers may be slashing their prices right now - but electronics giant Sony is doing the opposite. Sky News has learned the Japanese manufacturer is planning to increase its prices on a number of products in Britain. Sony says it is because of ...
21 Nov 2008
Living in an economy that is going through the shredder has some benefits for consumers looking for price breaks. Ever since people realized they couldn't afford to drive much, the lack of demand has helped bring on low gas prices, for one thing. We ...
21 Nov 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks looked set to rebound Friday from this week's sharp descent after a report said financial giant Citigroup is considering putting itself on the block. At 8 a.m. ET, Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor ...
21 Nov 2008
New York: Amid plunging stock price, executives at troubled Citigroup are mulling the possibility of auctioning off all or parts of the financial giant, says a media report. Quoting people familiar with the matter, 'The Wall Street Journal' said ...
21 Nov 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks looked set to rebound Friday from their recent fall after a report said financial giant Citigroup is considering selling itself. At 6:37 a.m. ET, Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq ...
21 Nov 2008
UK retailers may be slashing their prices right now - but electronics giant Sony is doing the opposite.
21 Nov 2008
The New Zealand dairy industry giant Fonterra on Friday slashed its forecast payout to farmers for this season. The payout for the year to May 2009 has been cut by 60 cents to 6 NZ dollars a kilogram of milk solids. Fonterra cited a drop of 24 percent in international dairy commodity prices in the past eight weeks as a contributing factor, and warned that world prices would remain weak. Fonterra ...
21 Nov 2008
A body found Monday in Giant City State Park was identified Thursday as that of a missing northern Illinois man.
21 Nov 2008
The Giant’s Rib Discovery Centre presents The Portage Options of the First Nations of the Dundas Valley with local author Bob Henderson as part of its ongoing Bruce Duncan Memorial Lecture Series.
20 Nov 2008
For years the Zion Canyon Giant Screen Theatre in Springdale has been showing movies on a scale that is larger than life. Now, it looks like the movies have come to life.
20 Nov 2008
Meet two bunny rabbits you don't want to get "hopping mad." They're flemish giant rabbits, each one tipping the scales at about 30 pounds. Standard rabbits weigh about five pounds.
20 Nov 2008
Giant chunky handmade knitwear from a funny maker. Posted by Cory Doctorow, November 21, 2008 12:25 AM | permalink. Etsy seller Yokoo not only makes some pretty rad gigantic chunky knitwear, but she also gives good funny in her little ...
21 Nov 2008
Xcel Energy is experimenting with gigantic batteries to store and provide power when it's either too windy or too calm. Xcel's battery unit is expected to be fully on line next spring, Minnesota Public Radio reports.
20 Nov 2008
Fielding an inexperienced squad against an uninspiring Guatemalan team, the United States National Team played arguably its best game of the semifinal round. ,
20 Nov 2008
If your office cut its holiday day party budget don't despair There's still ample opportunity to make out with that.
20 Nov 2008
Sun Giant 02. Drops In The River 03. English House 04. Mykonos 05. Innocent Son. Genre: Folk Website: Myspace | Buy! Release Date: 2008-04-08 Label: Sub Pop It took me a while but Fleet Foxes is up here now. ...
20 Nov 2008
AUSTIN, Texas—Groove-like tracks on the ocean floor made by giant deep-sea single-celled organisms could lead to new insights into the evolutionary origin of animals, says biologist Mikhail "Misha" Matz from The University of Texas at ...
20 Nov 2008