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NEW YORK: Oil prices wavered around US$60 per barrel Thursday with new consumer and employment data casting a pall over energy markets, but still rose slightly at the close for the first time in more than a week.
PETALING JAYA: Goh Ban Huat Bhd (GBH) substantial shareholder and director Tan Sri Robert Tan Hua Choon wants greater management control and participation in the group’s operations with a view to preserving and protecting shareholders’ value as well as enhancing future value following eight years of losses out of nine.
PETALING JAYA: The ringgit weakened to a 2½-month low against the US dollar yesterday after the release of factory output for May, which fell 11.1% year-on-year, and indication from Bank Negara on Wednesday that it does not rule out the possibility of further rate cuts given the uncertainties in the global economy.
Merck & Co. and Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday they have signed an exclusive deal to develop and market an experimental drug to prevent strokes in people with a dangerous irregular heart rhythm.
Obama prefers cereal to guns, so get out of defense contractor stocks.
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is unwilling to give CIT Group Inc. access to its Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program because the commercial lender’s credit quality is deteriorating, according to people familiar with the regulator’s thinking.
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Shaw Group Inc. , the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based builder of power plants, said 2009 profit will be lower than projected after third-quarter profit fell 85 percent.
TORONTO (Reuters)- Toronto's main stock index snapped a three-session skid on Thursday, finishing more than 1 percent higher as a rise in commodity prices gave a boost to the resource-heavy market.
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