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Published: Monday, 26 Oct 2009 | 6:14 PM ET Stocks retreated Monday, led by financials and commodities, as the dollar rebounded. Stocks had started higher, propelled by some encouraging earnings and economic reports, but the gains fizzled by midday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 104.22, or 1.1 percent, to close at 9,867.96. The blue-chip index has now given back much of its gains from the earnings-fueled rally of the past... [read full story]
4:32am UK, Monday November 23, 2009 David Williams, Sky News Online British commanders viewed their American counterparts as "a group of Martians" amid an unhappy working environment in Iraq. Britain's ability to influence US...
4:51am UK, Monday November 23, 2009 David Williams, Sky News Online The Conservatives have jumped on Jedward's X-Factor axing to take a swipe at Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling. The advert mirrors the Jedward campaign ad run...
It's a little-known - and slightly ironic - fact that when Lehman Brothers exploded last year it did so as the proud owner of 500,000 pounds of yellowcake uranium: enough to make a nuclear bomb. Uranium’s appeal was as a...
Updated: Sony and Barnes & Noble may be launching two of the most high-profile challengers to Amazon’s Kindle, but supply chain challenges could keep both companies from denting Kindle’s popularity this holiday season. (Then...
