Reading Time: 2 minutesAsia stock markets and the yen have fallen sharply in response to a tsunami and earthquake in Japan measuring 8.9 on the Richter...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCrude oil prices rose sharply during Asian trading hours on fears about the unrest in Libya, before falling back.
Reading Time: 2 minutesShipments grew at a weaker-than-expected 2.4% in February from the same month a year ago, latest figures show.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJapans largest brokerage house, Nomura, has appointed its first female chief financial officer in an unusual move for a top Japanese company.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOil prices have fallen on hopes that the Opec cartel of oil producers might be about to boost production for the first...
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS light crude rose by $1.95 to $106.75 a barrel, the highest since September 2008, before falling back sharply.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe French finance ministry has confirmed it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the G20 summit held...
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a joint statement, both the banks top executives, the group chairman and chief executive said the talk was speculative and presumptuous.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA small town in northern Spain has decided to reintroduce the old Spanish currency - the peseta - alongside the euro to give...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first in the Moldovas independence history general agricultural census (GAC) will be carried out between March 15 and April 15, 2011.