Bulls push oil over US$126 NZ Herald | Oil jumped to a new intraday record of US$126.20 a barrel at the weekend, extending gains to more than 11 per cent since the start of the month on fuel supply concerns and a rush of speculator buying. | "It appears that any calculations that included waiting for the next pullback were discarded on...
In quest for search-engine dominance, Microsoft is hard-pressed for answers Austin American Statesman | SEATTLE — Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer. | Since it withdrew a $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. after talks ...
Peter Mandelson, European Trade Commissioner, pins hopes on Peru talks The Times div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | Peter Mandelson is looking to a meeting between leaders of the European Union and Latin America in Peru this week to help to break the two-year deadlock in the Doh...
Speedo, the swimwear company, leaves its competitors standing The Times div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | Japanese companies are used to innovate-or-perish technology wars, but never one like this. | With a little less than three months before the world's greatest swim...
Kuwait goes with Japanese, South Korean refinery bids Daily Star Lebanon | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Monday, May 12, 2008 | KUWAIT: Four South Korean and a Japanese firm were declared winners on Sunday of four major contracts worth billions of dollars to build a new refinery in Kuwait, an oil official said. | The to...
Inflation worries expected to prop up weak U.S. dollar International Herald Tribune | : The tide may be turning at last for the U.S. dollar after seven years of decline as policy makers recognize the inflationary threat of an endlessly weakening dollar that has dr...
VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper Scientific American | VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper Journalists talk in front of a Volkswagen TDI Hybrid car during the first media day of the 78th Geneva car show at the Palexpo in ...
Genetically modified crops get mixed response in Asia Turkish Press | A researcher inspects rice specimens inside a Philippines rice gene bank in Los Banos, south of Manila on May 2. With food prices hitting record highs the debate in Asia about wh...
News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated The Australian | Will Hutton, in The Observer, on why it is a bit premature to concede the 21st century to China or India | THE fashionable view is that the US economy is a busted flush (but) of the world's top 100 universities, 37 are American. The country spends ...
Israel's 60th Anniversary: Economic Drivers of Peace Arab News | Mushtak Parker, Arab News | LONDON, 12 May 2008 — Israel celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state last Thursday. Israel's joy is "Al-Nakba" for many Palestinians — a catastrophe that has seen many Palestinians become refu...
Positive GDP reports expected, but signs of weakening ahead International Herald Tribune | : The euro zone and Japanese economies got off to a healthy start this year despite a sharp U.S. slowdown, steep inflation and a credit freeze, but troubles are brewing that may soon derail growth. | Economists think the euro zone grew by 0.5 perce...
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action The Australian | THE first ship to load iron ore produced by Fortescue Metals Group will dock on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia. It will leave with 170,000 tonnes of ore, bound for Baosteel in Shanghai. | Fortescue is Australia's new "third force" in iron ore and has contracts with all of China's top 10 steel mills. | Australia's leading ore produc...
VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper Scientific American | VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper Journalists talk in front of a Volkswagen TDI Hybrid car during the first media day of the 78th Geneva car show at the Palexpo in Geneva March 4, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse | TOKYO (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to b...
