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A Palestinian vendor displays a gold jewellery at a jewellery store in the Rafah Refugee Camp, Southern Gaza Strip on September. 19, 2011. Decline in demand for gold in the Palestinian markets due to the high price of $ 50 per gram, this high price in the global gold. ( Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN)
(photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Wheat, gold make stunning runs in nervous markets
The Times Of India
Tweet | NEW YORK: Wheat charged higher on Friday to post its biggest weekly gain in 16 years and gold continued its recovery from four-month lows as commodity markets saw selective buying amid lingering worries about the euro zone. | Prices of crude oil and copper -- two of the biggest industrial co...
Rupees and dollars Currencies
(photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Weak rupee may not hurt consumer prices: Credit Suisse
The Times Of India
Tweet MUMBAI: Weak rupee may have a limited impact on consumer prices though it could slow growth, notes a report by Credit Suisse. This would be the case for all major Asian currencies which have weakened against the dollar. | All major currencies in Asia have depreciated sharply against a strong U...
The state government is secretly holding back a Sydney Water application to gouge hundreds of millions
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| THE state government is secretly backing a Sydney Water application to gouge an extra $335 from households over the next four years. | Despite the O'Farrell government promising to limit bill increases from state-owned water and electricity supplie...
Lonely Planet's guide to Prague
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| MORE than 20 years after the Velvet Revolution drew back the curtain on Prague's intoxicating maze of winding cobblestone alleyways, the Czech Republic's "city of 100 spires" thrills visitors. | With dramatic Gothic architecture...
Larry King's back soon
Gulf News
| The show Larry King Now will mark the start-up of the network financed by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Executives had originally intended to launch in the autumn. | But King said he wanted to "get into the political mix". The Democrat...
Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?
The News & Observer
AP Photo Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here By CHARLES BABINGTON - Associated Press By CHARLES BABINGTON Tags: | WASHINGTON -- Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt Presid...
ASDA Supermarket
Creative Commons / Dominic's pics
Asda's sales growth accelerates
The Guardian
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Asda, the British arm of U.S. retailer Wal-Mart, said sales growth accelerated in its first quarter and it won market share as a focus on low pric...
President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet looks on during a news conference in Frankfurt, on Thursday, June 10, 2010. T
AP / Martin Oeser
Europe's banks on the brink
Reuters
| LONDON, May 17 (IFR) - The euro zone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president of the...
Indian rupee - currency
WN / Geeta
Rupee falls to record low, spurs RBI to act
The Times Of India
Tweet MUMBAI: The rupee hit a record low against the dollar for a second session in a row on Thursday as global risk assets remained largely under pressure, leading the Reserve Ban...
Small investors should not directly trade in equities: SEBI
The Times Of India
Tweet NEW DELHI: Small investors should not start trading directly in stock market as they don't have adequate resources to take informed decision, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) U.K. Sinha said Saturday. | Sinha said t...
G8 Camp David summit targets 'growth and stability'
BBC News
The summit of the G8 group of major world economies is under way at Camp David, near Washington, with Europe's debt crisis expected to dominate. | US President Barack Obama said all the G8 nations were "absolutely committed" to the goa...
Marco Rubio's Past Includes Political Vulnerabilities
Huffington Post
| MIAMI — For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might hold him back. | The 40-year-ol...
Stock
This Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, shows workers inside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.Facebook, the social network that changed "friend" from a noun to a verb, is expected to file as early as Wednesday to sell stock on the open market.
(photo: AP / Paul Sakuma)
Will Being on the Stock Market Change Facebook?
US News
After the IPO, users may see changes to the site | Facebook began trading on the Nasdaq today, priced at $38 a share. This puts the total value of the company at $104 billion, the third largest initial public offering ever after Visa and General Motors. | CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004 from his dorm room at Harvard Univers...
Banking
View of NABARD(National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) office-India.
(photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Nabard manager urges banks to popularize Kisan Credit Card
The Times Of India
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet PATNA: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural development (Nabard) Chief General Manager D V Deshpande on Friday urged all commercial banks to devise a strategy for popularising Kisan Credit Card (KCC) so that all eligible farmers including oral lessees, tenant farmers and share croppers can be covered under KCC in Bihar...



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