Wall St. pummeled despite Fed printing; oil 108, Blackstone reveals a loss
NEW YORK, March 10, 2008 (AFP) - US stocks sustained a fresh beating Monday as oil prices briefly rocketed to fresh highs above 108 dollars a barrel and as The …
NEW YORK, March 10, 2008 (AFP) - US stocks sustained a fresh beating Monday as oil prices briefly rocketed to fresh highs above 108 dollars a barrel and as The …
March 11, 2008 (AFP) - Young cricketers may soon opt out of playing for their country because of the huge amounts of money available in the sport, Sri Lanka's …
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, March 11, 2008 (AFP) - A pro-government Tamil rebel group won a majority in almost all the local councils that went to the polls in Sri …
March 11, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's state-owned petroleum utility plans to tie up with global ship supplier GAC Ships to sell bunkers or ship fuel in …
Mar 10, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka rupee gained against the greenback in early trading Monday with state names coming in to cap the domestic currency at 107.50/55 …
March 10, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lankan stocks ended flat Monday but volumes were boosted to over 700 million rupees on heavy trading in Sri Lanka Telecom after a …
MANILA, March 10, 2008 (AFP) - The Asian Development Bank said Monday it would double its loan commitment for a major highway project in Sri Lanka to 140 …
Mar 10, 2008 (LBO) – Emirates Airlines is tripling frequent flying miles to business travellers in March on selected destinations, the airline said. …
Mar 10, 2008 (LBO) - Advertising agencies are struggling to convince clients to use the web as internet penetration increases in Sri Lanka, but poor awareness …
Mar 10, 2008 (LBO) – The sale of an equity stake in Sri Lanka Telecom held by Japan's NTT to Malaysia's Usaha Tegas group could go ahead, the island's …
DHAKA, March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladesh has scrapped a deal to sell its fourth-largest bank to a Saudi prince for 458 million dollars after he failed to make …
PANAJI, India, March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Police in the Indian resort state of Goa Sunday arrested one of three men held in connection with the murder of a British …
March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said Monday there was no need to panic following the team's repeated batting failures in recent …
March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Security forces armed with loud hailers were deployed in eastern Sri Lanka Monday to drive away wild elephants blocking access to …
March 10, 2008 (AFP) - A powerful bomb ripped through a commercial area of Sri Lanka's capital during rush hour on Monday, killing at least one person and …
Mar 10, 2008 (LBO) – A bomb had exploded in Wellawatte, a southern suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo during the morning rush hour Monday, killing at …
Mar 10, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's foreign reserves had increased to 3.4 billion dollars by March 06 with the monetary authority collecting 366 million …
DUBAI, March 9, 2008 (AFP) - The market for Islamic finance and banking is growing rapidly in the oil-rich Gulf thanks to burgeoning wealth and attractive …
PENANG, Malaysia, March 9, 2008 (AFP) - Weekend elections that have reshaped Malaysia's political landscape will reverberate in the stock market and could …
ANKARA, March 8, 2008 (AFP) - Turkey has changed its method of calculating its gross domestic product, switching to the system used in the Europen Union which …