Australia edges closer to joining recession NZ Herald Page 1 of 2 4:00AM Saturday Jul 04, 2009 | By Victoria Batchelor | The future is not looking quite so rosy for the Australian economy. Photo / AP | Australia's economy, which has so far skirted the global recession, may stall after reports showed exports dropped to a 14-month low, bank lending fell ...
Indian monsoon late - more bad news for the local gold market Mineweb LONDON - | The Indian gold market has been very sluggish so far this year as high prices and straitened economic times have taken their toll. Figures from the World Gold Council (compiled by GFMS Ltd) showed that in the first quarter of the year scrap supplies were so strong that de...
Commodities: Is it time to buy copper and nickel again? The Guardian | Once they were the hot funds. Now Patrick Collinson asks if they're leading a new bull run | The rising price of metals has boosted commodity funds. Photograph: Peter Ginter/Getty Images/Science Faction | The price of oil went below $40 a barrel, b...
From iron curtain to green belt The Guardian | When Germany was divided during the cold war, nature took control of the deserted border area. Today it forms a reserve as fascinating as the country's recent history | All along the watchtower ... once a heavily fortified border the former East/We...
Railway Budget 2009-10: No good(s) stuff & loads of woes for cargo sector The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee failed to meet the expectations of the industry, which was hoping for some relief in freight tariffs to help it tide over the economic downturn....
Braemore pays for ambition The Times | How do you value a technology that could rescue South Africa's mining economy? The nation has long been the world's largest producer of platinum and chrome - but the industry has been hit hard by plunging metals prices and the growing cost of diggi...
Punished Reed Elsevier seen as 'compelling' buy The Times | It was hardly the stuff of vigorous investigative journalism. For five years, articles put out by Reed Elsevier, the giant scientific and trade magazine publisher, were, in fact, paid for by pharmaceutical companies. The news broke two months ago, ...
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Gold price falls as dollar strengthens The Australian | GAINS posted by the US dollar combined with pre-holiday liquidation to send gold and other precious metals lower. | August gold fell $US10.30 to $US931 an ounce on the Comex divi...
Rise in construction materials price eases Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—The rate of increase in wholesale prices of building materials in Metro Manila slowed down to 9.8 percent year-on-year in May, a nine-month low since Septembe...
Gold prices gain on firming overseas trend The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Gold prices gained to recover part of its previous losses in the bullion market today on emergence of stock...
Sarah's Straight Talk The New York Times | Truly, Sarah Palin has come a long way. When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too. Skip to next paragraph Tony Cenicola/The New York Times | Gail Collins Go to Columnist Page » The Conversation | David Brooks and Gail Coll...
Spicer housing finding tenants Ohio | When J.J. Hammerle was looking for an apartment, he wanted something close to the law school at the University of Akron, where he is a student. | He stumbled onto the luxury town homes in Spicer Village in Akron's University Park. He was immediately smitten. | ''We were blown away by how big they are, how new they are, the atmosphere they're tryi...
