Day in pictures: 11 May 2012 BBC News Riley McCormick of Canada dives during the Mens' 10m Platform Semi-Finals at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center in Florida. Montgomery, 28, hugs her son - whom she has not seen in 17 months - at California's Institute for Women state prison...
Exclusive - Syria buys grain via Lebanon to beat sanctions The Star | HAMBURG (Reuters) - Syria is importing significant volumes of grain via Lebanon to work around western sanctions and secure vital supplies, European traders told Reuters. The Joint Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan (L) speaks with Nassir Abdulazi...
FOCUS: Gold Not Acting As Safe Haven, Falling With Other Markets In Tuesday's Rout Forbes | By Debbie Carlson and Allen Sykora | Of Kitco News | http://www.kitco.com/ | Editor’s note: Catch the Latest Happenings with Kitco Video News! | (Kitco News) – Rising concerns about Greece after this weekend’s elections left electoral...
On Greece's future, political parties, elections, eurozone exit Kathimerini | Get rid of the euro and you'll be safe | Regards from Finland! | You won't get your independence back if you have more debt -- that just makes you more of a slave to the banks, and that way the land around your country will not be yours...
Exclusive: BarCap's global commodities head to join Mercuria The Guardian LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Jones, global head of commodities at Barclays Capital , will leave the bank shortly to become the head of non-oil operations at Swiss trader Mercuria, industry sources said on Friday. Jones, who has been at Barclays for a dec...
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. Reports Record First Quarter Earnings Seeking Alpha | Strong Nitrogen Prices and Early Spring Application Drive Profitability | DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF): | First Quarter Highlights Record first quarter net earnings attributable to common stockholders of $368...
Markets Live: Gains in miners offset by banks Canberra Times | Australian shares have closed slightly higher, with gains in the miners offset by losses among the big banks. More signs of recovery in China's manufacturing sector helped sentiment. | 4.28pm: The Australian dollar struggled to make much headway to...
World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. | The fall in European shares followed a sharp downturn in Asia where markets were also rattled by weak U.S. manufacturing figures. | The nervousness about Spain's banks co...
Honda's electric car like a bicycle on a vacuum The Daily Telegraph Australia | HONDA unveiled its latest electric vehicle, but it is unlike any of the cars and motorcycles the company is best known for. | Rather, the UNI-CUB single-seat, unicycle-like vehicle looks something like a vacuum cleaner with a bicycle saddle mounted on top. Indeed, viewed from the side, its black-and-white color scheme makes it look strikingly lik...
