1. High rice prices no windfall for many Asian farmers data: 07.04.08
For many rice farmers in Asia, the commodity they produce ends up as food in their stomachs, not cash in their bank accounts.
2. Europe shows resilience in face of U.S. downturn data: 27.03.08
Business confidence rose in Germany, France and Belgium, and the head of the European Central Bank dampened hopes for a cut in interest rates soon.
3. Asian businesses and workers suffer from dollar's weakness data: 27.03.08
The sliding value of the U.S. dollar against most global currencies is putting many businesses and workers under increasing financial pressure.
4. Fuel costs just part of airlines' list of woes data: 10.04.08
Even before the recent flight cancellations, airlines and passengers were facing a new wave of travel misery.
5. EADS insiders knew of threats to profits before selling stock, regulator says data: 10.04.08
A report from the French market regulator details meetings in which senior executives learned about threats to profits.
6. Credit crisis forces a German lender to close data: 10.04.08
Weserbank's chief executive blamed market turmoil for the demise of the bank, the first European banking fatality of the global financial crunch.
7. Pssst - Want an unlocked phone? data: 27.03.08
Wireless carriers often offer customers cheap or free phones in exchange for multi-year contracts, but then the phones are technologically "locked" - the subscriber cannot cancel the contract and sign up for service with another company.
8. Bear Stearns employees sending out rĂŠsumĂŠs in bad market data: 07.04.08
Bear Stearns employees are flooding Wall Street with their rĂŠsumĂŠs as the firm is acquired by rival JPMorgan Chase, but the job market looks bad, investment bankers and recruiters said.
9. Gazprom and Eni prepare to join forces to pipe natural gas from Libya to Europe data: 10.04.08
Some analysts describe Gazprom's moves in North Africa as a "pincer" attack on Europe, which already gets a quarter of its natural gas from Russia.
10. Americans begin to face the pain of an overvalued house data: 27.03.08
Homeowners sometimes lose sight of the fact that their home is only a house to most buyers, especially when prices are falling.
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