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SINGAPORE, May 28 (Reuters) - Asia's naphtha margins were at a week high on Monday, defying weak fundamentals, with traders saying that the lower flat price and hopes of China rolling out stimulus measures to combat an economic slowdown could ...
May 28, 2012 at 12:18 | Source: Reuters
Bankia shares fell steeply in the morning following the government's decision to pump €19 billion into the troubled lender. The move effectively nationalized the country's third-largest bank. With U.S. markets closed on Monday, European stocks ...
May 29, 2012 at 02:51 | Source: Marketwatch
SINGAPORE, May 28 (Reuters) - Asian gasoil margins slipped to their lowest in two months as demand in Asia remained muted despite persistent spot requirements from Vietnam, industry sources said on Monday. The June gasoil crack slipped 39 cents ...
May 28, 2012 at 10:52 | Source: Reuters
The cost of insuring corporate and sovereign bonds from default increased in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan, according to traders of credit-default swaps. The Markit iTraxx Australia index climbed 2.5 basis points to 196 basis points as ...
May 29, 2012 at 02:37 | Source: Bloomberg
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- South Asians rated their lives worse in 2011 than most residents in other parts of Asia. At least one in five residents in Nepal (31%), Afghanistan (30%), India (24%), Sri Lanka (22%), and Pakistan (21%) rated their lives poorly enough ...
May 28, 2012 at 05:59 | Source: Gallup
SINGAPORE, May 28 (Reuters) - Asia's fuel oil market came off the previous session's 15-week high, that had been lifted by strong buying interests from BP and China's Brightoil, amid profit-taking in the swaps market, traders said on Monday.
May 28, 2012 at 12:18 | Source: Reuters
HONG KONG (AFP) - Asia's biggest wine and spirits fair opens in Hong Kong on Tuesday, giving the world's top producers from France to Argentina a chance to tap the booming but still relatively new Chinese market. Organisers of the three-day ...
May 28, 2012 at 22:55 | Source: Straits Times
Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index extending a four-week loss, on concern China’s biggest banks may fall short of loan targets for the first time in at least seven years amid an economic slowdown. China Minsheng Banking Corp ...
May 25, 2012 at 01:23 | Source: Bloomberg
SINGAPORE: The National University of Singapore (NUS) is now one spot away from being ranked Asia's top university, according to latest rankings from Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), an information provider for higher education. In fact, it ...
May 28, 2012 at 21:44 | Source: Channel NewsAsia
Gerald Lawless, executive chairman of Jumeirah Group, a Dubai-based chain of luxury hotels, is also co-chairman of the World Economic Forum on East Asia. He tells The Nation that this region is a growth area for his business, while more travellers from ...
May 25, 2012 at 17:15 | Source: Nation - Thailand