Archive for April 24th, 2008
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Tokyo stocks fell slightly Thursday.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 38.29 points, or 0.28 percent, from Wednesday to 13,540.87.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was dow ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Paraguay's Vice President-elect Federico Franco said Wednesday that his country is not "going to continue giving away its share" in the hydroenergy exported to Argentina and Brazil.
Franco told a local radio network that Argentina a ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Myanmar will hold its second horticulture show in the biggest city of Yangon early next month to encourage fruit and vegetable growing, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday.
The four-day horticulture show at ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Rice prices have increased dramatically in recent weeks across the United States despite the government's forecast that food prices would rise only 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent this year, reports said Wednesday.
As consumers concerned ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The dollar regained some ground on Wednesday, a day after hitting record low against the euro.
The euro rose above 1.6000 U.S. dollars on Tuesday as two European Central Bank (ECB) governors indicated that the ECB might raise rates ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
U.S. stocks advanced Wednesday on a better-than-expected profit report at Boeing Co.
Boeing, one of the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones industrial average, reported a 38 percent jump in first-quarter earnings.
Major in ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The dollar regained some ground on Wednesday, a day after hitting record low against the euro.
The euro bought 1.5896 U.S. dollars in late New York trading compared with 1.6000 dollars it bought late Tuesday.
The dollar rose ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Crude oil futures rose slightly Wednesday on tight supply concerns.
The Energy Department's weekly report showed that U.S. crude stocks grew by more than double what analysts expected. For the week ending April 18, gasoline inventor ...
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