Archive for the November 7, 2005
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Taiwan share prices are expected to strengthen further this week amid extended interest by foreign investors in low value high-tech stocks, dealers said. They said dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip makers and flat panel
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Bangladesh Interbank buy/sell rates for the taka against the dollar on Sunday. 65.75 (previous 65.75). Call Money Rates: 10.50-25.00 percent (previous 12.50-25.00 percent). Copyright Reuters, 2005
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Indian bond yields are expected to rise in coming weeks as investors digest a new hawkish tone from India's central bank that analysts say could see interest rates rise sharply in the next year. The
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US stocks could edge higher this week on hopes for strong holiday spending after retailers' October sales were healthier than expected. Crude oil prices at $60 a barrel, though, could spoil the mood on Wall
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United States Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, said on Sunday he would keep up his campaign for legislation banning the torture of prisoners, despite a veto threat from President George
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A powerful tornado tore through southern Indiana and parts of Kentucky early on Sunday killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 100, many of whom were sleeping when the twister hit, officials said.
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Fifteen people were killed and one other was missing in a coal mine blast early Sunday in Qingxu county of north China's Shanxi province, state media said. There were 25 miners in the mine when
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A disagreement over the role of European Union security monitors kept Israel's cabinet on Sunday from approving a border crossing for Palestinians between Gaza and Egypt, political sources said. Israel, which quit the Gaza Strip
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An emergency meeting chaired by President Jacques Chirac and attended by key ministers responsible for security began in Paris late Sunday to discuss France's worst rioting in nearly four decades. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin,
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Embattled French authorities were struggling Sunday to deal with the worst wave of urban violence in three decades as arson attacks hit the heart of Paris and rioting spread across the country. On the 10th
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