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Standing beside heaps of tomatoes at a street market here, vendors loudly cursed the Russians but quietly conceded that they had been forced to raise prices this week. And even as Russian officials say they will soon pull back...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors dumped shares of Fannie Mae (FNM.N) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N), driving them to their lowest levels in more than 18 years on mounting fears of a government bailout that would wipe out the stock value...
Tens of thousands of traders piled into the commodities markets in recent years, attracting nearly $280 billion, bidding-up everything for crude oil to corn, coal to soybeans, and silver to sugar. The speculative boom was most...
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition unveiled Wednesday new far-reaching rules to head off powerful foreign-owned state-controlled funds going on a shopping spree for companies in Europe's biggest...
