Crude Oil Trades Near a Six-Month High Amid U.K.-Iran Stand-off Concerns

South Korean and Japan ese foreign ministers on Sunday wrapped up their two-day meeting and agreed to take measures for better bilateral relations between the two neighbors.
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Olmert invites moderate Arab leaders to regional peace conference

... a summit in Saudi Arabia last week, the Arab League renewed a 2002 Saudi peace plan that would recognize Israel in exchange for withdrawal from all captured territories and a just solution for the Palestinian refugees. Olmert welcomed the decision ...more

Economy

... Ministry sources said here Friday. Abidjan regional bourse ends week low The Abidjan-based West African stock exchange, BRVM, closed trading Friday with the Composite Index slightly down 0.28%, from 134.85 to 134.47 points, while the BRVM 10-Index ...more

Crude Oil Trades Near a Six-Month High Amid U.K.-Iran Stand-off Concerns

... for May delivery was at $65.78 a barrel, down 9 cents, in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 8:49 a.m. Singapore time. On March 30, the contract fell 16 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $65.87 after closing the previous ...more

China may need to further tighten liquidity and curb inflation this year, a central banker said.

... Rather, it may be a convenient label applied by some in the United States to describe an element of China's foreign policy. Washington's perception of China's de facto strategy may not be a view shared in Beijing, but the fact remains that economic ...more

Olmert invites Arab leaders to peace summit

... said. The Arab League renewed last week a 2002 Saudi-proposed peace plan that would give Israel recognition in exchange for the Jewish state's withdrawal from all captured territories and a just solution for the Palestinian refugees. Olmert welcomed ...more

Foreign nationals statute lives on

... Enacted amid national nativist sentiments during the Great Depression, the 1938 statute bans the hiring of a foreign national for any government job a U.S. citizens can do. The law had been all but forgotten until two members of the Glynn County ...more

China may need to further tighten liquidity and curb inflation this year, a central banker said.

... trade surplus, which ballooned 74 percent last year to a record 177.5 billion U.S. dollars, drove the country's foreign-exchange reserves to more than 1 trillion U.S. dollars and flooded the economy with cash. China raised interest rates to the ...more