PalmOne Inc, the leading maker of handheld computers on Tuesday said it licensed Microsoft Corp software that enables secure delivery of corporate e-mail to portable devices.
US Treasury debt was narrowly mixed on Monday as investors proved reluctant to make any major bets ahead of key events like a speech from the Fed chairman and the crucial September jobs report.
US Treasury debt was narrowly mixed on Monday as investors proved reluctant to make any major bets ahead of key events like a speech from the Fed chairman and the crucial September jobs report.
Philippines shares back-pedalled on Tuesday after strong gains in the previous session, but traders said the market still has a tailwind from foreign buying and forecasts of good corporate profits for the rest of the year.
Hong Kong stocks closed slightly lower on Tuesday, retreating from a seven-month high, but property shares bucked the downtrend as transactions picked up in September.
US stocks rose on Monday as software company Siebel Systems Inc boosted technology shares with a better-than-expected sales outlook and Friday's start-of-quarter buying spree ran into the new week.
Seoul stocks closed a touch higher on Tuesday, lifted by firmer banking shares on hopes for better-than-expected second-half earnings, but profit-taking from recent gains and uncertainty ahead of a central bank policy meeting capped the upside.
Indian shares took a breather on Tuesday after a four-day rally which took the benchmark index to a 5-1/2 month high, but the undertone was firm on expectations of strong earnings from corporates and steady foreign fund inflows.
Jakarta stocks ended slightly higher on Tuesday, after being in near flat or negative territory much of the day, with news of an upward revision in the country's sovereign ratings having limited impact on market sentiment.
Taiwan stocks closed flat on Tuesday, taking a break after climbing to a 4-month high, as investors pocketed gains from bank shares like Cathy Financial Holding that had been boosted by a recent rate hike.
Tokyo's Nikkei average ended marginally higher on Tuesday, extending gains into a fourth day as a recent upswing in corporate sentiment and higher profit forecasts offset selling pressure from individual investors.
Thai stocks fell 0.77 percent on Tuesday after three days of gains as profit taking hit recent risers like communications and brokerages after a computer problem wiped out morning trade, analysts said.
The Indian rupee ended slightly lower on Tuesday, coming off a modest early high as concerns about firm prices of oil, the country's key import, and a strengthening dollar kept the market subdued.
The dollar held near a one-week high against the euro on Tuesday on optimism about the US economy as the market awaited comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
The dollar rallied broadly on Monday after a statement by the Group of Seven richest nations late Friday brought no surprises, allowing some optimism about US economic prospects to bolster the currency.
The Indonesian rupiah extended post-election gains on Tuesday after Fitch Ratings raised its outlook on the country's ratings, citing reduced political uncertainty after presidential polls.
The Australian dollar battled to hold above 72 US cents on Tuesday in the face of a strengthening US dollar, which was building on its post-G7 rally on the expectation of upbeat data this week.
The dollar clung to recent gains against the Swiss franc early on Tuesday as markets reassessed their outlook for the US economy, their mood buoyed by rising share prices and upbeat comments from Federal Reserve officials.
India's ruling Congress party is unlikely to win a majority in a key Indian state poll this month, a survey said on Tuesday, due to what is seen as the poor performance of its government there over the last five years.
At least 12 people were killed and seven wounded Tuesday in a fresh bout of militant violence in India's restive north-eastern state of Assam, police said.
Greenpeace demonstrators chained themselves to a truck near a nuclear treatment facility in western France Tuesday in a bid to stop an imminent shipment of US military-grade plutonium reaching the plant, resulting in several arrests.
A law urging more human rights in North Korea passed unanimously by the US Congress showed nuclear talks were meaningless because America was "hell-bent" on toppling the communist state, the North's foreign ministry said.
Italy halted its controversial mass expulsions of immigrants to Libya on Tuesday, an official here said, after a welter of criticism from opposition parties and human rights organisations.
A massive explosion at a fireworks factory in China's south-western Guangxi province killed 27 people and left 59 injured, 16 seriously, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
A fire broke out on a Canadian submarine off the coast of Ireland on Tuesday, slightly injuring three crew members and knocking out the craft's diesel engines, officials in Canada and Britain said.
The Saudi ministry of Islamic affairs has dissolved the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, accused by the United States of funding terrorism, an official at the charity told AFP on Tuesday.
More than 100 individuals in the United States and 35 others in foreign nations have been arrested in a crackdown on telemarketing fraud that caused losses exceeding $1 billion, US officials said on Tuesday.
A tearful President Megawati Sukarnoputri told Indonesians on Tuesday to accept the result of the country's historic leadership ballot, but did not explicitly concede defeat to her former security chief.
Israel turned away a Lufthansa passenger plane bound for Tel Aviv on Tuesday due to a bomb threat. The plane landed safely in Cyprus after it was escorted by Israeli air force fighters.
Opposition Conservative leader Michael Howard attacked British Prime Minister Tony Blair's credibility on Iraq, in a speech Tuesday aimed at reviving his party's sagging fortunes before general elections expected next year.
A US journalism professor is seeking to force the Pentagon to release images of coffins bearing America's war dead arriving at the defence department mortuary in Delaware, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
Pakistan will take on India in the eighth and final hockey Test match at Hyderabad Deccan (India) on October 10 under floodlights, Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) announced in a press release on Tuesday.
India's top court on Tuesday, the eve of the first cricket Test against Australia, finally gave a green light for the state-run broadcaster Doordarshan to telecast live the home series.
The Zimbabwean cricketers had net practice at the Rawalpidi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, in preparation for their forthcoming tri-series encounters against Sri Lanka.
French police have found two Russian-made surface-to-air missiles among huge arms caches uncovered during a sweep against Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA in south-western France, officials said on Tuesday.
Four days out from a close election, Australian Prime Minister John Howard sought to bring attention back to national security on Tuesday with an unusual plan for an Asia-Pacific spy school to counter terrorist threats.
Russian intellectuals Tuesday urged the nation's political classes to come forward with their own suggestions to solve the Chechen crisis, saying last month's school hostage tragedy showed the government had no answers.
Russia is backsliding on democracy and the EU must take Moscow to task while bringing other former Soviet republics closer to the West, the bloc's incoming External Relations Commissioner said on Tuesday.
A team of Bulgarian archaeologists announced Tuesday that they had unearthed a large, intact Thracian mausoleum dating back from the fifth century BC near the central Bulgarian town of Chipka.
A leading Palestinian Islamic Jihad member was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Tuesday as Israeli troops pressed a deadly week-old incursion into the northern Gaza Strip.
Wartime security was rolled out for Afghanistan's interim President Hamid Karzai as he addressed his first election campaign rally outside the capital Tuesday amidst spiralling violence.
Hundreds of people trying to get into the United States on false passports have been intercepted since the introduction of new immigration controls including digital fingerprinting, a US official said Tuesday.
Britain's biggest defence contractor, BAE Systems, allegedly paid millions of dollars into a slush fund for a leading member of Saudi Arabia's royal family with the knowledge of its chief operating officer, the BBC says in a television programme to be scr
The Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest publishing show, prepared Tuesday to welcome more than 200 Arab authors as guests of honour on the eve of the 56th annual event.
Iran has developed a missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles) and is determined to make its armed forces stronger still, a senior official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Three American scientists won the 2004 Nobel physics prize on Tuesday for showing how tiny quark particles interact, helping to explain everything from how a coin spins to how the universe was built.
Statements by two top US policymakers contradicting administration dogma on Iraq provided new fuel Tuesday to relentless Democratic criticisms of President George W. Bush that have jolted his re-election bid.
India, the world's biggest sugar consumer, is expected to raise sugar imports later this year and in 2005 to compensate for declining stocks after a poor harvest, a United Nations sugar expert said on Tuesday.
Six EU governments face pressure to scrap national bans on certain gene-spliced foods that had been approved for growing and processing before the bloc began its 1998-2004 biotech ban, officials said on Tuesday.
Gold edged higher in Europe on Tuesday afternoon, helped by a firmer euro after news that the giant US services sector grew more slowly than expected in September, dealers said.
Liffe sugar futures closed up in light trade with many players absent in the runup to a sugar trade dinner, and traders said price prospects remain bullish, underpinned by a expectations of a supply deficit in 2004/05.
NYBOT cotton futures closed mixed Tuesday in narrow-ranged trade as the market kept an eye on news that heavy rain may sweep into Texas, the top cotton growing area in the United States, analysts said.
London robusta coffee futures bounced back after Monday's lows to finish with strong gains on Tuesday, but traders said the market could suffer further setbacks in the next few days.
Zinc was the busiest contract by the end of Tuesday's open-outcry trading on the London Metal Exchange (LME), closing slightly lower after a turbulent day, traders and analysts said.
Oil prices leaped above $51 a barrel on Tuesday as a prolonged US production outage following Hurricane Ivan attracted fresh speculative buying. US light crude set a new high of $51.29 a barrel, later easing to settle at $51.09, a gain of $1.18 on the day
Oil prices leaped above $51 a barrel on Tuesday as a prolonged US production outage following Hurricane Ivan attracted fresh speculative buying. US light crude set a new high of $51.29 a barrel, later easing to settle at $51.09, a gain of $1.18 on the day
US coffee futures ended up more than 2 percent Tuesday as funds and speculators bought on speculation that forecast rains for top grower Brazil might not materialise, traders said.
Cocoa futures ended mixed on Tuesday as early speculative-led selling reversed after news of civil tension in top cocoa grower Ivory Coast, traders said.
NYBOT raw sugar futures finished Tuesday at a three-year peak on a steady fusillade of fund buying, with bullish fundamentals seen keeping the market strong in the weeks ahead, brokers said.
Chicago Board of Trade corn futures firmed on Tuesday on speculative short-covering after early losses on forecasts for a record 2004 US corn crop, brokers said.
Chicago Board of Trade soyabean futures were firm at midday Tuesday on light speculative short covering and commercial buying after early losses on forecasts for a record 2004 US soya crop, brokers said.
US copper futures posted moderate gains Tuesday morning as they took a half-hearted cue from prospects for a Chilean strike later this week and a softer dollar, traders said.
COMEX gold steadied Tuesday after its pullback from last week's highs, helped by a weaker dollar, another record oil price, and concern that these could foreshadow inflation.
Euro auto and telecoms bonds fell in average value on Tuesday, as oil prices hit a record high near $51 per barrel and the US stock market made a subdued opening.
Euro auto and telecoms bonds fell in average value on Tuesday, as oil prices hit a record high near $51 per barrel and the US stock market made a subdued opening.
Sri Lanka stocks fell on Tuesday in thin volume selling of small counters across the board as retail investors took profits after recent gains, brokers said.
Britain's top shares surged for a third straight day on Tuesday to their highest level in 28 months, led by Man Group as speculation swirled that a major US financial group was casting an eye on the hedge fund manager.
Sterling fell to its lowest level in almost three weeks against the dollar on Tuesday and approached a recent eight-month low versus the euro after a weaker-than-expected survey of Britain's service sector.
The dollar bobbed near a one-week high against the euro on Tuesday as investors waited to see if forthcoming US data and a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan would reinforce optimism over the US economy.
Pakistan's parliamentarians and the legislative staff on study tour of the United States concluded their fortnight-long visit describing the endeavour as 'advantageous' and 'rewarding.'
Federal Privatisation and Investment Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has supported proposed laying of a gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan, saying it is 'the most economical available option.'
Federal Law Minister, Wasi Zafar on Tuesday called on the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry and discussed matters pertaining to dispensing early and inexpensive justice as well as further strengthening of the judici
As many as 10 different exhibitions are planned to be held in Karachi at Expo Center during the year 2005 - the Expo Pakistan being the biggest one to be held from February 2 to 5.
Temperature may have dropped to pleasant level in Karachi after recent showers with the risk of diarrhea, influenza and typhoid double fold owing to possible contamination of under ground water sources.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Tuesday said the government has taken practical measures for the development of Balochistan to bring it at par with other developed areas of the country.
District government has started their movement to realise the dream of a 'Parrha likha (educated) Punjab', with a huge allocation of Rs 43 billion to be spent on the education sector" in the province.
The first-over Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) in the country will be inaugurated at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant (SIUT) here on October 8.
The traffic chaos prevailing on the intersection of NICVD - Regent Plaza is such that emergency patients going to NICVD and also to other important hospitals like the Kidney Centre, Children's Hospital as well as the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre - i
This has reference to your editorial "Looming threat to carpet industry," dated 29th September 2004, in which you have highlighted the problem of child labour in the carpet industry.
Facing enormous demand for electricity, China is to build dozens of nuclear plants in the next half century and is at the forefront of efforts to develop the next generation of safer, more efficient reactors.
Although the coastal belt of southern Sindh had a providential escape from the fury of a cyclone last weekend, the heavy downpour preceding it did take its toll, notwithstanding the elaborate precautionary measures the district and provincial governments
The latest statistics on prices are highly distressing. After remaining subdued from 1999-2000 to 2002-03, inflation rate picked up somewhat during 2003-04 but the current year has witnessed an abnormal increase in prices. According to the Federal Bureau
Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union held a demonstration against the escalating prices of essential commodities and proposed privatisation of Wapda's Power Wing.