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Nobody could have forecast the Satyam episode. However, there is growing scepticism that this incident may serve as the catalyst that will open a can of worms.
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. factories raised prices at the slowest annual pace in a year last month after manufacturing extended its worst streak of contraction in almost three decades, deepening the recession.
(Adds details.) LONDON (Dow Jones)--The recession in the U.K. manufacturing sector deepened in November, with output plunging a larger-than-expected 2.9% on the month, the Office for National Statistics said Friday.
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Euro-zone retail sales bounced back more than expected on the month in November, but remained weaker on the year as rising unemployment and the recession weighed on consumer spending in the currency bloc, official data showed Friday.
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France, Jan 9 (Reuters) - French carmaker Renault posted a 4.2 percent drop in 2008 unit sales in a world market that fell 4.8 percent, and set further reducing its stock of unsold vehicles as a priority for 2009.
MAUSTON -- Calling the details of a 2007 double homicide horrific, a Juneau County Circuit Court judge gave the first of two defendants the maximum sentence.
Thanks to some dogged reporting by the Daily News this holiday season, we now know that the U.S. Postal Service isn't all that keen to deliver the mail. Employees at the understaffed Southwest Philadelphia distribution center were apparently instructed to destroy whatever envelopes they didn't have time to sort.
A Massachusetts investment company is helping parents, family and friends give an important gift for the future: a college education.
In an extended interview, assesses the state of the world economy (Part I, today), and then the outlook for India (in Part II, tomorrow). The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission argues that there are more financial shocks to come, and that the bottom of the downturn has not yet been reached.
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong lawmakers will call top finance officials and regulators to testify as the city’s parliament investigates complaints about structured notes linked to collapsed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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