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• German fertiliser group KS joins blue-chip DAX index

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:42
  

  German fertiliser group K+S will join the DAX 30 index of blue-chip stocks, reflecting its growing business as prices for commodities and foods rise globally....>

  (Posted in Business)

• Wall Street, funds urge SEC to keep ratings in rules

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:42
  

  Securities regulators are locking horns with some of America's most powerful mutual funds and Wall Street players over plans to scrap requirements that money ...>

  (Posted in Business)

• Slow August sales signal more weakness in retail

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:42
  

  When it came to buying their children new jeans and trendy tops, parents held the line: They focused on basics at discounters and waited for the best deals, re...>

  (Posted in Business)

• Global growth, U.S. job fears hammer Wall Street

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:41
  

  Wall Street had its steepest decline in more than two months on Thursday, as more signs of weakness in the labor market and increasingly sluggish growth overse...>

  (Posted in Business)

• Lehman weighs real estate spinoff: report

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:41
  

  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is considering a plan to put some $32 billion of its commercial real estate and mortgage assets in a new company and spin it of...>

  (Posted in Business)

• Services, productivity up but job market weak

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:41
  

  The dominant U.S. service sector improved last month and businesses boosted productivity in the second quarter but evidence of labor market weakness overshad...>

  (Posted in Business)

• FBI arrests ex-Credit Suisse broker

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:41
  

  An indicted former Credit Suisse broker was in U.S. custody on Thursday to face charges over deceptive sales of subprime-related auction-rate debt, the FBI ...>

  (Posted in Business)

• Sinking Yahoo: Shares drop to nearly 5-year low

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:37
  

  Yahoo Inc.'s stock sunk to its lowest level in nearly five years Thursday, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management tries to just...>

  (Posted in Internet)

• Google's Chrome Grabs Market, But It's Not Finished

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:37
  

  Google Chrome. It's a browser that was admittedly still in the development oven when Google released it, so are Internet Explorer 8-killer comments premature? ...>

  (Posted in Internet)

• Sony Recalls VAIO Laptops To Avoid Overheating

  Publish Date: September 05, 2008 01:15:33
  

  Sony has issued a recall for thousands of its VAIO laptop computers in the U.S. because of possible overheating or short-circuits....>

  (Posted in Technology)