07:00 GMT. EUROPEAN OPENING SNAPSHOT. Gold hit another high and Asian stockmarkets enjoyed solid gains on Wednesday after Wall Street stocks delivered a robust rebound overnight.European bourses are expected to open fairly flat, however, because muc
07:00 GMT. EUROPEAN OPENING SNAPSHOT. Investors scrambled to buy yen and dump stocks on Friday as the fallout from the Dubai World debt restructuring continued to circle the globe. The Japanese currency saw its second day of strong gains, at one sta
LONDON - The FTSE 100 rose sharply on Monday as the dollar weakened, mirroring surging commodities, while signs of a possible international battle for confectioner Cadbury focused traders' minds. In London, the share prices of heavyweight miners su
TOKYO, Oct 19 - Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 0.2 per cent on Monday, with exporters such as Kyocera Corp down after disappointing US corporate earnings robbed the market of upward momentum sparked by earlier upbeat results. But the benchmark pa
A reusable rocket plane has made a successful test flight from New Mexico's Spaceport America — a prototype craft built to showcase proprietary advanced launch technologies. The small unpiloted vehicle soared into New Mexico skies on Oct. 10,
Investors overwhelmed the UK with demand for inflation-linked bonds yesterday amid signs that many fund managers are worried about prices surging out of control in the next few years.The UK government sold £5bn of 2050 inflation-linked bonds at a yi
ROME - A betting frenzy among Italians is set to continue after the record-breaking state lottery again failed to produce a winner on Tuesday, sending the jackpot up to almost 144 million euros . No-one has picked the winning 6-number combination s
SEOUL, South Korea - Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's second-largest automaker, said Wednesday that second-quarter net profit quadrupled amid higher sales as the company benefited from weakness in the local currency. Kia Motors earned 347.1 billion w
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