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business

Wall Street stocks close Thursday with small loss

Major Wall Street indexes finished the day just short of where they started, despite plenty of news.

business

Russia acknowledges economy is in crisis

Russia’s government has acknowledged for the first time that the economy is in crisis, undermining earlier attempts by officials to suggest weakening growth could weather sanctions over Ukraine.

world

ECB pledges to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds

The European Central Bank has unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to halt Europe's financial crisis with a pledge to buy unlimited amounts of the government bonds of countries struggling to manage their debts.

world

Greek poll result boosts bailout cause

business

Markets plunge after poll results

business

Stocks and euro sink as ECB chief resigns

G7 running out of ammunition, says analyst

THE Group of Seven nations’ pledges of liquidity injections and exchange-rate co-operation may be ill-suited to addressing the concern at the heart of the past week’s stock market rout: another global recession.

Tue, 09 Aug, 2011

European markets jittery as debt fears mount

European financial markets were slammed today by fears that Italy and Spain would be dragged into the debt crisis.

Tue, 12 Jul, 2011

Zimbabwe fools media with accident report

AROUND the world, the news went out: Plane accident in Zimbabwe, black smoke on runway, ambulances screaming in.

Fri, 06 Aug, 2010