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U.S. stocks rose at the open on Monday, with the Dow and S&P extending record highs as trading continues to focus on economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 43.6 points or 0.27 percent,...

Google and Microsoft unveiled measures to block online searches for child sex abuse images on Monday as part of a bid by British authorities to crackdown on Internet pedophiles. The companies said as many as 100,000 search terms will now...

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Emirates Airlines, shakes hands with Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Ray Conner (front R) as Boeing Chairman James McNerney (2nd L) looks on during the Dubai Airshow   Airbus and Boeing signed deals...

World shares hit a near six-year high on Monday, boosted by signs of ambitious economic reform in China and the prospect of extended stimulus in the United States. China's offshore share market put on 5.7 percent .HSCE in its best...

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker (3rd R), Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani (4th R), Qatar's Minister of Energy and Industry Mohammed Saleh al-Sada (2ndR) and other delegates pose in front of a...

Nigerian energy firm Oando Plc said on Friday that its nine month pre-tax profit fell 44 percent to 9.78 billion naira ($61.44 million), compared with 17.40 billion naira in the same period a year ago. The oil marketing and exploration...

Banks will next week return 3.59 billion euros ($4.8 billion) of crisis loans early to the European Central Bank, the ECB said on Friday, a lower than expected total as a recent rate cut makes it more attractive to...

Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called on Norway's $800 billion oil fund, one of the biggest investors in the world, to spend more in the poorest countries where little private money reaches. Gates, who runs the $37 billion Bill...

World shares traded near five-year highs on Friday after a robust defense of monetary stimulus from the woman set to take over at the U.S. Federal Reserve next year, while Japanese stocks headed for their best week in almost...

A former JPMorgan Chase executive accused of helping to hide trading losses in a $6.2 billion financial scandal at the bank rejected on Friday a U.S. extradition request, which will now rest in the hands of courts in his...