Archive for December 2012
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America's $3.7 trillion municipal bond market has been riding up for two years, powered by tax-free yields that sometimes topped taxable Treasury payouts and a calming among small investors who had feared local governments were
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America's $3.7 trillion municipal bond market has been riding up for two years, powered by tax-free yields that sometimes topped taxable Treasury payouts and a calming among small investors who had feared local governments were
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Asia's wealthiest investors may lose some of their appetite for corporate bonds after getting burned in recent deals, analysts and bankers say, sowing caution in a market where issuance hit a record this year and
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Asia's wealthiest investors may lose some of their appetite for corporate bonds after getting burned in recent deals, analysts and bankers say, sowing caution in a market where issuance hit a record this year and
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Egypt's bourse dropped in volatile trade on Sunday, pulled down by profit-taking and concern that the central bank governor might resign, after stocks rose early on in response to voters' approval of a new constitution
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The norovirus has killed six elderly people in a rural Japanese hospital and infected dozens of other patients and staff, officials said Sunday. The winter bug, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, has killed six patients
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A powerful army general who lost a command in a military reshuffle seen as vital to stabilising Yemen may be given another senior post in the impoverished country's armed forces, sources at the presidency said
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Voter turnout topped 50 percent in Oman's first ever local elections for 192 councillors with advisory powers, the sultanate's deputy interior minister announced on Sunday. Turnout reached "50.3 percent of the electronically registered voters," Khaled
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Dozens of people were killed and many more wounded in a Syrian government air strike that hit a bakery where a crowd was queuing for bread on Sunday, activists said. If confirmed, the attack on
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Police shot dead a television journalist on Sunday when they opened fire during a protest against a sexual assault on a film actress in India's north-east, an official said. The 36-year-old, who was working for
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