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Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell on Monday as oil plummeted on demand worries and the U.S. dollar went up. Silver and platinum both finished lower. Gold price for August delivery lost 6.70 U.S. dollars, or 0.7 percent, finishing at 924.30 dollars an ounce. Earlier in the session, [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday announced a 73-million-dollar humanitarian aid “directly to the people in Zimbabwe.” “I have committed 73 million dollars in assistance to Zimbabwe,” Obama told reporters after meeting with Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the White House. U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets with Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in [...]
BlackRock, Inc., one of the world’s largest publicly traded investment management firms, has announced it will acquire Barclays Global Investors (BGI) for 13.5 billion U.S. dollars. An employee walks out of Blackrock’s headquarters in midtown Manhattan, New York, the United States, June 12, 2009. BlackRock Inc.said Friday that it will acquire Barclays Global Investors (BGI) [...]
China will raise gasoline and diesel benchmark retail prices by 400 yuan (58.6 U.S. dollars) per tonne as of Monday, the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC) announced Sunday. Worker in a gas station is adjusting price board in Hefei, Anhui Provice, on wee hours June 1st, 2009. China will raise gasoline and diesel benchmark retail prices [...]
An explosion took place in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore city on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, private DAWN NEWS TV channel reported. Rescue workers carry an victim from the site of a car-bomb blast in Lahore on May 27, 2009. A suicide car bomb on Wednesday flattened a police building in Pakistan’s city of Lahore, [...]
The eurozone industrial new orders dropped by 0.8 percent month on month in March and by 26.9 percent year on year, the European Union (EU)’s statistics bureau Eurostat said Tuesday. In February, the monthly index remained unchanged. Excluding ships, railway and aerospace equipment, for which changes tend to be more volatile, industrial new orders fell [...]
Panama’s general elections voting ended on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (2100 GMT). Panama’s presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli of the Democratic Change (CD) party talks to journalists at his home prior to presidential elections in Panama City, May 3, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) More than 2.2 million Panamanians out of the country’s 3.3 million population have registered to [...]
Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos late Sunday raised the death toll of the A/H1N1 flu to 22 and the number of infected cases to 568 in the country. People wear surgical masks in Mexico city, May 3, 2009. Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos late Sunday raised the death toll of the [...]
South Africa’s ruling party African National Congress (ANC) is almost certain to win the April 22 election, but it still faces the biggest challenge since coming to power at the end of apartheid in 1994, according to latest surveys. People pass by posters of presidential candidates in Johannesburg, April 21, 2009. South Africa will …
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the Georgian parliament on Thursday, urging President Mikhail Saakashvili to resign over the strained ties with Russia as well as the sluggish economy at home. Thousands of Georgians hold a rally against Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, calling on his resignation, in front of Parliament Building in [...]