The New York Times After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms | SHANGHAI - Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corpo... (photo: creative commons/ mreid0183)
The Guardian Euro dips as eurozone fiscal woes fester * Euro hovers near 8-½ mth lows vs USD, 1-yr low vs yen * Investors sceptical of G7 assurance on Greece * Yen broadly higher, near 7-mth peak vs Aussie dollar By Masayuki Kitano TOKYO, Feb 8 (Reuters... (photo: Public Domain)
The Guardian Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Fig... (photo: WN / marzena) AfricaClimatePhotosTourism
Inquirer Senior citizens ask for so little | Let me repeat what I wrote in this space many months ago ('Pension now for poor older people' 3/19/09) in relation to poor Filipino senior citizens: The Philippines is ... (photo: WN / sweet) PensionPeoplePhilippinesPhotosSpace
Wall Street Journal India's Retail Ties That Bind By ARVIND K. SINGHAL | New Delhi | If there's one cloud on the silver lining of India's economic recovery, it's food-price inflation. Wholesale food prices rose by 17.4% ... (photo: WN / Trigedia) EconomyIndiaInflationPhotosPrices
Wall Street Journal Dollar Turns a Sickly Shade of Green By PHIL THORNTON | The World Economic Forum has often served as a launch pad for attacks on the dollar. At Davos two years ago, the billionaire financier George Soros pre... (photo: WN / akgunsemra) DollarEconomyPhotosUSWorld
