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Mon, 12 May 2008 08:10 BST
Germany believes China, India and the US should be forced to adopt higher environmental and health standards if they want to export food products to the European Union, says Horst Seehofer, Germany's farm minister
Mon, 12 May 2008 07:58 BST
The end of a bn loan agreement removes an anchor for Ankara's economic and structural reform programme just as the economy appears to be heading into difficulties
Sun, 11 May 2008 22:04 BST
A large Middle East private equity company has been quietly buying farmland in Pakistan as part of plans by the United Arab Emirates to increase food security and damp inflation
Fri, 9 May 2008 19:50 BST
Another doubling in oil prices is about conceivable. It would cause serious economic disruption, global tension and currency crises for some poor nations
Fri, 9 May 2008 19:16 BST
Campaigners hope they can capitalise on pressure for greater transparency, writes Michael Peel
Thu, 8 May 2008 22:42 BST
Four more food commodities added to list despite warnings, including from the government-appointed market regulator, that such measures will do nothing to quell inflation
Thu, 8 May 2008 21:44 BST
Global inflation has re-emerged as a major threat to the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said in a stark warning that marked an abrupt change of tone from its emphasis on the risks to growth
Thu, 8 May 2008 19:35 BST
Verbal intervention on the US currency and euro is welcome – but it is time for verbal intervention on the rupee and renminbi as well
Thu, 8 May 2008 18:21 BST
The beginning of wisdom is to recognise that booms and busts have been a feature of capitalism from the start, writes Samuel Brittan
Thu, 8 May 2008 18:08 BST
Ethics is not only acting correctly; it is also not trying to avoid regulation even if one thinks one can get away with it, writes Evelyn de Rothschild
Thu, 8 May 2008 03:02 BST
A sharp rise in the number of transactions in the emissions trading market brought the value of trades to about bn last year, says the World Bank in an annual review
Thu, 8 May 2008 02:01 BST
The US and Europe now have a united desire to see the dollar strengthen against the euro, senior officials have told the Financial Times
Wed, 7 May 2008 23:32 BST
Peter Mandelson says the protectionist stances taken by the US presidential candidates risk taking the world trading system back by decades
Wed, 7 May 2008 22:24 BST
The US general in charge of military operations in space said China's destruction last year of an orbiting satellite had dispelled the notion of space as a sanctuary and called for heightened international co-operation to share information about what was orbiting the earth
Wed, 7 May 2008 18:43 BST
The Commission is right to claim the euro is a success. It is also right to admit the euro has fallen short, say Jean Pisani-Ferry and André Sapir
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Written by Hamza
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Mon, 12 May 2008 13:57:35 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. in a deal valued at 0 million, the companies announced Monday....
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:31:14 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street fluctuated in a narrow range Monday, giving up a modest early advance as oil prices ticked lower and the dollar rose....
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:05:13 GMT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it had a larger first-quarter deficit as revenue fell, it lost more than a million subscribers and it absorbed charges for severance and other costs....
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:38:46 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- IndyMac Bancorp Inc. said Monday it swung to a loss in the first quarter as deteriorating credit markets forced the mortgage lender to lower the value of mortgage-backed securities, and warned it would not post a profitable quarter in 2008....
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:34:09 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) -- MBIA Inc. swung to a file=ap.php.41 billion loss during the first quarter as the bond insurer faced ongoing deterioration in the credit markets and recorded billions in write-downs....
Mon, 12 May 2008 11:10:09 GMT
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- A blood thinner manufactured in China and linked to dozens of deaths in the United States is now safe because of tighter testing and controls, a top American health official said Monday, while warning that all U.S. imports would face closer scrutiny in the future....
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:41:11 GMT
LONDON (AP) -- Oil prices retreated Monday from last week's record close near 6 a barrel as the dollar strengthened against the euro and yen....
Mon, 12 May 2008 11:38:50 GMT
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Westpac Banking Corp. said Monday it has approached rival St. George Bank Ltd. with a billion takeover offer that could lead to the biggest shakeup of Australia's banking sector in years....
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:57:32 GMT
TOKYO (AP) -- A senior Toyota executive said Monday that plans for a new auto assembly plant in Mississippi are being delayed by worries about slumping American auto sales and a broader U.S. economic slowdown....
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:57:49 GMT
BEIJING (AP) -- China's inflation rose in April to near decade-high levels, according to data released Monday, increasing pressure on Beijing to cool rapidly ascending prices and avert possible unrest ahead of the Summer Olympics....
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