US dollar leaps on dismal global growth outlook | HONG KONG: The U.S. dollar rose sharply on Friday, hitting a five-month high against the euro and weighing on metals prices as investors ... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)The Times of India
Japan stocks rise slightly on relief about Toyota | TOKYO: Japanese shares ended slightly higher on Friday, boosted by renewed optimism about Toyota and other issues that had previously lag... (photo: GNU / Matio )The Times of India
Japan stocks rise slightly on relief about Toyota | TOKYO—Japanese shares ended slightly higher Friday, boosted by renewed optimism about and other issues that had previously lagged on worries about earnings. | The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Av... (photo: GNU / Matthias93)The Boston Globe CarsJapanMotorPhotosToyota
Move to reduce $11bn oil import bill | By Ihtasham ul Haque | ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The Economic Monitoring Committee (EMC) asked the ministry of petroleum on Thursday to prepare proposals for curtailing oil consumption in order to lower the... (photo: PID)Dawn IslamabadOilPakistanPhotosPolitics
Sime market cap halved | It is now worth less than pre-listing value in November last year | PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Bhd, the world's biggest listed palm oil plantation owner, has lost over R... (photo: WN / patricia)The Star BusinessEconomyMalaysiaMarketPhotos
The great oil bubble has burst | Bad news from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline - an installation that may not normally draw much of your attention, but which is a throbbing artery of global energy sup... (photo: AP / Hasan Jamali)The Daily Telegraph BusinessEconomyEnergyFuelsPhotos
No China? No Kyoto If there's one good thing about holding the Olympics in Beijing, it's that the whole world is seeing first-hand the lunacy of exempting China from having to remove a sing... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)Toronto Sun ChinaClimateEcologyEnvironmentPhotos
The politics of oil prices | An oil price of more than $147 a barrel was a grave threat not just to the West, but also to the emerging nations of Asia. Fortunately, the laws of supply and demand ha... (photo: AP / )The Daily Telegraph EconomyFuelMarketPhotosPolitics
