Oil retreated below $125 a barrel on Monday in volatile trade that saw it briefly hit an all-time high earlier in the session. ... It had risen a full percent against the yen and approached a two-month high against a basket of currencies earlier on Monday. Crude oil...
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Scottish firm Murray Metals Group announced that it is selling one of its trading divisions, Hillfoot Forge, to the Special Steel Company of Sheffield, for an undisclosed sum. Hillfoot Forge, which employs 50 people, was...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The frontrunner to become Japan's next leader will to pledge tax cuts and bigger government spending to boost the economy, a newspaper said on Monday, a contrast with rivals worried about the country's...
Peter Power (Letters, September 4) reveals a number of fundamental misunderstandings by the European commission. Neither George Monbiot nor ActionAid claims that access to Senegalese waters by EU fleets will form part...
A teenager's jaw was broken when a fish flew from the lake where he was riding in an inner tube and smacked him in the face. Seth Russell, 15, was cruising Lake Chicot in Arkansas on a large inner tube towed by a boat...